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I think a “tea run” should be a thing because I seem to have done my first “official” tea run this summer. I went to the Maritimes, (Nova Scotia, PEI and New Brunswick, Canada) this summer for a few weeks and decided along the way I would see what kinds of tea I find. I wasn’t expecting to find much in terms of interesting tea, tea shops or teaware. But I was pleasantly surprised! Below I tried to highlight some of the teas and places I found tea along my trip in no particular order. I’m sure I missed some as I seem to have more tea than what is listed below! I’ve included links where appropriate, either to the tea room or tea shop where I found the tea or to the site of that particular business. I’ve also tried to include the location,or at least the city, where the business from or where I found the tea. I don’t think I’ve tried all the teas in my “Maritime tea stash” yet, but I’m slowly getting through it!

I seem most at peace when I’m sleeping, drinking tea or making something with my hands. The latter seems to allow me to think more creatively and imaginatively about everything and anything. In any case, this past weekend was about making things with tea and in particular green tea and matcha. Of course, there is the usual baking with matcha a few recipes of which can be found in a previous post on Can you cook with matcha? This weekend, while I did make some matcha cupcakes, [1], I wanted to see if I could make some skin care products with matcha and/or green tea. I only started making skin care products last year: scrubs, body butters, melt and pour soaps, shower/bath bombs, lip balms, etc. Simple things. But now that I’ve made them a few times, I had a desire to start experiment. If people are making coffee scrubs, I’m sure someone is making tea scrubs out there! In any case, my search on Pinterest leads me down a rabbit hole, as usual! But I managed to climb out with a few interesting recipes for DIY skin care products that I quickly repined and tried. [2]