We have been asking you lovely teapigs fans to pack you favourite teapigs tea and take it with you on you summer hols this year. Near or far, teapigs real tea is an essential item as you can never be sure what kind of slop you are going to be served out of home!
In June I jetted off to Istanbul in Turkey and of course I didn't forget my pack of teapigs Darjeeling Earl Grey. When I visited The Spice Market I came a stall selling hundreds of fresh spices as well as lovely whole leaf Turkish teas! Over there they are big fans of apple tea which they drink very sweet and you get offered it wherever you go. After good chat about tea, I left heavily armed with lots of amazing spices and a garland of chillis! I gave up my last few precious tea temples for the man to enjoy a taste of England!
If you are off on holiday this month then remember to take your teapigs tea, get a snap of you and your tea and send it to me at hannah@teapigs.co.uk with the subject title 'holiday'. The best 3 entries will win our teapigs real tea bundle and a teapigs teapot! Get snapping!
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It's taken us teapigs a very long time to decide on our runners up for the Drink Real Tea Competition - we've has so many great entries and so much variety within them we just couldn't narrow it down to the 5 runners up. So, after much debate and voting, we have decided on 6 runners up. Prizes on their way to you.
Faye Ward
Leah Spicer
Mia Hague
Mark McKellier
Joanna Go
Thomas Pizzey
And here is the winner of our Drink Real Tea competition. Thank you thank you thank you for all your designs. The teapigs have taken some time deciding on the winner and here it is. We love the bright colours, the tongue-in-cheek-ness of it and the big "drink real tea" down the side (not to mention the temple earrings - genius!)
So very well done to Fergus O'Brien.
Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who entered the teapigs design us a real tea print competition. The teapigs will be judging the entries this week over a few cups of real tea and we'll announce the winner on Tuesday 1st June.
In the meantime, here are a few of the entries up for you to have a look at. Enjoy!
teapigs will be exhibiting at The Real Food Festival this year. The festival is taking place at Earls Court in London between the 7th and 10th May. Not only will we have a stand selling our tea temples (stand 170), but we'll have another stand close by (stand 167) which will be dedicated to teapigs organic matcha. At both stands there will be the opportunity to sample tea and meet the gang! The Real Food Festival does what it says on the tin and provides a wonderful range of things to look at, taste anfd buy. We have got 3 pairs of tickets which are valid for all 4 days and 20 pairs of tickets valid for either the 9th or 10th May. All you need to do to get your hands on a pair of tickets is email hannah@teapigs.co.uk and we'll give them away on a first come first served basis!
Last night I had the big pleasure of going to see the wonderful Angus and Julia Stone. Brother and sister singer-song writers from Sydney, Australia - these two are superbly talented (well, in my opinion at least!). Having seen them in 2008 in their native country, I was not dissapointed second time round! I'm not sure if they're teapigs fans but I would guess that peppermint leaves or jasmine pearls would be their faves..maybe I'll ask them?! (by Hannah)
I'm sure, like me, most of you can enjoy a cup of freshly brewed teapigs at any time of the day (or night!) but for fans of 'afternoon tea', The Langham Hotel in London has been named the best place to enjoy a spot of the traditional lifestyle! 
Every April, Irene Gorman of The Tea Guild - an organisation representing 100 of the UK's most prestigious tea places - casts her beady eye over establishments across the UK and decifers a winner of both Top Afternoon London Tea and Top Tea Place. Palm Court at The Langham joins a whole host of previous top-knotch winners including the The Dorchester, The Lanesborough and Browns Hotel.
Starting at £35.00 per person, it's not a cheap treat but we love the fact that tea is getting so much attention! Whether you like to splash out on a whole afternoon, or curl up on the sofa with your favourite teapigs brew - tea is terrific and we love it!
(by Hannah)
With just one month to go before we choose the winning design for our "design us a real tea print" competition, we thought we'd post some of the designs we've received so far... they will appear on the blog so keep watching this space:
Want to have a go at designing us a "real tea print"? The winning designer will win £100 and the winning design will be printed and sold on our wesbite. It will also be displayed in cafes and delis that stock teapigs. Read more here.
We are sooo trendy here at teapigs! Actually, I'm not sure about us being super fashionable, but our lovely little teapigs envelopes certainly are!
The lucky people of London Fashion Week 2010 received a fantastic YSH goody bag which featured lots of bits and pieces, including our very own teapigs tea temples.
As well as being on the front row benches of shows, the goody bags were given away outside Somerset House. British actress Joely Richardson, Sarah Brown the PM's wife and Harold Tillman the chief of fashion label Jaeger were among some of the famous faces to get their hands on a precious teapigs tea temple. We are continuing to work with YSH and in our latest competition have asked budding arties to desgin us a wonderful poster for our ongoing real tea mission....get the kettle on and the creative juices flowing!
by Hannah
Alex, Jo and I went tea sampling at new stockist, tossed, around London last week. We loved it. As well as offering the bestest, yummiest (yet healthiest) salads in town (I really recommend the sweet chilli chicken with rice), they now offer fantastic breakfasts from fresh fruit to granola and breakfast baps - needless to say best washed down with a good cup of teapigs english breakfast now available in all tossed stores.
So get yourselves down there and soonish because they are offering a free hot drink to customers until 30th November 09 - just print off your voucher here
Whilst you're there make sure you take in the entertaining "i'm a tosser" t-shirts (Alex's favorite), the salsa music (my favorite) and the super clear points-based nutritional info (brilliant).
(posted by sofia)
