Official *What did you get in the mail today?* Thread!!!

That’s a ton of tea! I’m jealous I haven’t received mine yet and I live within a 30km from the place!

Yay! That came super quick. If you want to try anything that I ordered, feel free to help yourself.

OMG SOOOOO much tea!

You are right, Stephanie! OMG
Happy dance;-)

I have to say, it was so painless working with all of these ladies on this split order. Tea people are the best!

what teas did you order from Butiki? I love hearing what everyone picked out in the sale!

Jelly! I want mine! :P

I just checked my tracking. Mine is out for delivery!!! dances around :D :D

Lolainred, I got:
4oz of The Black Lotus
4oz of Caramel Vanilla Assam
6oz of Maple Pecan Oolong (seriously one of my favorite teas!)
4oz of Hello Sweetie

Then for my free teas, I chose:
1oz of Hello Sweetie
1/2oz of that new Butterscotch tea
2oz of Premium Taiwanese Assam (Need to see what the hype’s about!)
1/2oz of Sansia Black
and 1/2 of Hattiall Golden Paw Assam
I’m so stoked!! :D :D

Sorry about that. We are holding off on sending notices until all the non-problem orders ship to get stuff out faster.

Wow, that is a ton of tea!!! You’ll have fun drinking all that :)

Oh okay. Makes sense. Thank you, Stacy! :D You’re the best!
Sarsonator I definitely will! :P Wonder how long it will last…hmm….

oooo.. those sound great. I actually haven’t tried most of them, but let’s be honest what DOESN’T sound great from Stacy? I almost got come of the maple pecan oolong this time. And I got my shipping notification today! woot!

Yah! :D :D

Yay, glad the teas arrived safely! :)

so what did you get from butiki? =)

I got:
Hong yun black
Zhen Qu
Shiva’s breakfast
Hattialli golden paw assam, and
Butterscotch and hazelnut mocha candies!

I had Zhen Qu yesterday and it was awesome!!

awesome! I really wish i’d been able to catch the sale… stupid work.

That’s fantastic!!!! LOL My order is in Mississauga according to tracking.
Enjoy your tea yyz.

That means it’s made it through the first sorting station and will probably be on its way to you tonight!

So cool! Maybe next time you’ll catch him in time to share a cup :). Enjoy your tea!

This is so cool. Hand delivered. Wow.

That really is wow!

Thanks everyone I’m sure I will enjoy them. It’s particularly special because where I live is about a 30- 35 minute drive from Tao’s store.

That’s just amazing! Talk about a wow factor….can’t wait to get mine, although I know he won’t show up here, that’s for sure! Enjoy :-)

Awesome day! Enjoy.

Any day with a WP delivery is a good day. :D

Indeed it’s a very good day. I was a little intimidated by the Zen box because I didn’t realize just how big the tea tray was! They upgraded me from a medium tray to the full size one because of a stock problem. Man is it beautiful.

And yes a WP day is a good day. I’m drinking GO already and in heaven.

Mmmmmmm!

That’s what I am drinking right now. I’d love to see your teaware. I am in the market for some and am looking at options.

Yes, pictures please!

Pics pls;)

I adore GO and can’t wait to try the rest of the Vanilla Dreams collection. I have all of them except for Port which was out of stock when I made my order.

Here’s what I got from Zen
http://zentealife.com/teaware/type/accessories/teacosy/bamboo-tray.html
http://zentealife.com/teaware/region/china/teapots/yixing-teapot-dezhong.html
http://zentealife.com/teaware/region/china/gaiwan/gaiwan-life.html
http://zentealife.com/teaware/region/china/gaiwan/teacup-peony.html (4)
http://zentealife.com/teaware/region/china/accessories/glass-pitcher.html

(I really shouldn’t have access to my credit card at night when I can’t sleep)

Oh I see there is a demand for pictures…

I’ll take some as soon as I’m done drinking this cup of GO.

Congrats! Excellent choices! Wishing you great tea sessions.
I have this one, the same potter, I love it
http://zentealife.com/yixing-teapot-songdan.html
Have you decided on a tea? I assume it’s your first Yixing, I highly recommend David Duckler video on youtube.

Their tea ware is really reasonable.

It is my first and I’m pretty sure this is going to be my Mandala’s Milk Oolong pot. That’s the one tea I drink enough of to warrant it’s very own yixing.

I’m not sure if I’ll expand it to any other oolongs or keep it to the Milk Oolong.

Elderwood or Cocoa Amore? Which should be my next cuppa?

Lol, I can’t tell, they both rated at 100 for me!!

Great haul, you did really good on your shopping spree :-) zen tea is awesome, and that tray, OMG!!

And WP…I get emotional just taking about it. You’re gonna have a great tea night, enjoy, can’t wait to read your notes :-)

I haven’t used photobucket in ages but here goes it http://s286.photobucket.com/user/frolic_with_me/library/Teaware

Sorry they aren’t the best pictures. My hands are a bit shaky.

LOVE that gaiwan! So pretty! Enjoy!!

You got some really gorgeous things! How big is that pitcher? I’m in the market for a small glass pitcher and that price is very reasonable

Enjoy!

What was in it this month?

Oh dear that reminds me that the August box is coming soon!

I haven’t even finished all of July’s. I am going to be one caffeinated person with my latest haul and trying to sip down my cupboard. It is vital to remember to enjoy and savor each sip though, no mater how much tea there is to drink.

For July I received:

1 Gold Pouch – Avaata Supreme Nilgiri
1 Gold Pouch – Arya Pearl Darjeeling
1 Goomtee Darjeeling
1 Lohagarh Assam
1 Harmutty Assam
1 Darjeeling Earl Grey
1 Singbulli Oolong Darjeeling
1 Runglee Rungliot Darjeeling
1 Daily Darjeeling
1 Temi Autumnal Sikkim
1 Okayti Splendour Darjeeling
1 Giddapahar Muscatel Darjeeling
1 India’s Original Masala Chai

I noticed on their site the samplers are 50% off. I posted it in the sales thread. http://goldentipstea.com/collections/samplers

Are those the same gold pouches as last month? I can’t remember.
Edit – yep.

Yum! Those are mostly different from my July box. Except I got those gold bags. I don’t enjoy the first flush as much as the second. I can’t wait to get August!

How many grams each do you get?

10g of 10 teas, this was my box last month.
http://imgur.com/0vAbzcV

Hmm, B you got 13 teas this month?

So you get around 100 grams of tea to try each month? Nice!

i can barely get through an ounce of tea a month from monthly teaboxes…i can’t imagine trying to get through 100g each month.

Apparently so. I had also ordered a sampler (Autumn Flush) so maybe they put in an extra by mistake. I had 2 Autumn Flush teas (took out the Autumn sampler teas then counted what was left in my box).

How are teas from this vendor? I have ordered many teas direct from China but never direct from India.

The teas have been good. A lot are new to me as I’m more familiar with Chinese teas so it’s been fun trying the different samples. Shipping has been reasonable in that they shipped both my orders within 24 hours and provided a tracking number. If you’re interested in trying something I think I have at least one duplicate sample and probably more once my second order arrives.

I bet you’ll get lotsa energy from tea.

Make up a dance of tea joy?

That is a lot of tea, but it’s not like you spent money on the TTBs, right? Husbands! ;) I’m imagining you swimming in tea sample bags, haha!!!

I am a Green Terrace fangirl.

marzipan – pretty sure you mean to say “you’re a tea fangirl” giggling

Busted.

Loving what I’ve tasted so far.

Great order! Enjoy!!!

Sweet, glad everything arrived safely! :) Wow, that sounds like some trek!

Yay!

Awesome! Enjoy :-)

Yay! :)