Celebrating Spring with Bigelow Tea!

Celebrating Spring with Bigelow Tea!

By: Erin

Disclosure: I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community.  This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias® and Bigelow Tea #cbias #SocialFabric #AmericasTea All thoughts and opinions are my own, and I enjoy a great cup of tea! 🙂

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It’s springtime! When I think of spring, I think of garden tea parties, sitting out in the backyard with the roses in full bloom, sipping some delicious Bigelow Tea with some good friends.  When I think of tea parties, scenes from Alice in Wonderland, elegant Victorian decor and ladies with their pinky fingers stuck up in the air come to mind.  I have some very old, yet amazingly beautiful tea cups and tea pots that I’ve just been itching to use to have a tea party with as they’ve just been sitting around in the china cabinet, collecting dust for quite a while now. These cups and pots hold a lot of family history as I imagine they have been through many tea parties before. Some of them can even be traced back to 1910 when my great-great grandmother Carlson owned them. As spring has been approaching us, I’ve been getting more and more excited to finally host a tea party with these beauties! I gathered up a few friends who I know enjoy tea and tea parties as much as I do, and we started to plan our afternoon tea party to celebrate spring with Bigelow Tea! This led to a trip to Wal-Mart to go buy some of my favorite tea, Bigelow Tea, as well as some other much needed items, which you can see the full shopping trip here, in my Google+ Album!

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Spring Has Sprung at DownEast Basics

Spring Has Sprung at DownEast Basics

By Erin

Spring has sprung over at DownEast Basics and their new spring collection for 2013 is in full bloom. Last week a few of us headed over to check out the latest and greatest spring fashions that they have to offer.  Splashes of beautiful colors welcome you into the store.  Bright yellows, pastels, greens, coral, oranges, teals, and pinks are in this season.DownEastBasics

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Now Entering the Blogosphere…

Dear All,

After a year or so of contemplating blogging, I am finally committing!  You see it’s not that I mind talking or writing, it’s that I find it hard to believe my day-to-day might be exciting enough to read. This is my 1st post to see how all my future blog posts will look like. Yes, you haven’t guessed wrong! I am very new at this so please have a bit of patience as I am still learning… In time I will be posting about art, fashion, photography, design, brilliant people I know, charities, fundraisers, local events, reviews, giveaways, reader polls and topics, tips, contests, how-to’s, the crazy going ons of my life, of course HORSES and so much more. Maybe even have some amazing guest bloggers! I hope that you’ll find it all very educating, interesting and entertaining! Looking forward to making HORSING AROUND IN LA a blog that you will happily visit for some inspiration and maybe a laugh or two! So here I am jumping head first into the blogosphere!

Love,
HORSING AROUND

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Spring is one of my favorite times of year so I’m sure I will find lots to yatter on and start out blogging fairly faithfully, the above photo is of some amazing spring blooms in my own backyard. <3