1, 3, or 5 Bucks For The Sororitea Sisters?

Hello everyone! Today I wanted to let you know about our Fundraiser on GoFundMe. It's for the Sororitea Sisters Site - a site dedicated to everything tea! Below you will see a note from Anne. She and I co-founded the site back in 2010. We are asking for your help! Can you donate $1? $3? $5? Anything you can donate will help us fund our site! Thanks so much!

Official GoFundMe Note as follows:

My name is Anne, and I'm the administrator and co-creator of the SororiTea Sisters Tea Blog. Since May 2010, the SororiTea Sisters have been dedicated to offering honest reviews of teas that we've tasted. We haven't always enjoyed every tea that we've tasted, but we've always been honest about what we've consumed - the good, the awesome, the not so good, and the bad - for one reason and one reason only: We LOVE tea!

http://sororiteasisters.com

We accept no payment for our reviews. We do accept samples from tea companies in exchange for honest reviews, but we offer no advertising in exchange for financial compensation. In so doing, we are able to freely tell the readers what we think about a tea openly and honestly, without feeling obligated to be nice and/or dishonest about a product because we're being paid to say what we say. We say what we really think!

For the last five years, we've kept the blog going on our own dime. We've paid for the domain registration and the shipping of teas out to our sisters so that they have fresh teas to review. It's been a struggle to do this, and so now we're reaching out to you - our readers! - in the hope that you enjoy our blog enough to help us keep the domain - it's time to renew! - and also help us defer some of the shipping costs.

Thank you for your assistance and your belief in us!

Over The Weekend...

This past weekend my Mom, Dad, Sister, and I were in Forrestville, NY, at Merritt Winery for their Strawberry Festival.  We were vendors with our Wildtree Products.  This is our 2nd year doing this event and it's our BEST event by far - to date.  It was so much fun!  Saturday was a little cooler - weather wise - but the company and the music was FUN regardless!  Each year they choose a charity to support and this year it benefited the Carol M. Baldwin Foundation.  Carol was the mother of Alec, Daniel, and Billy Baldwin.  On Saturday Daniel Baldwin was there for the festivities.  He was VERY nice!  Here is a photo of my sister and I with him.  My sister told him he had very pretty eyes.  He seemed to be 'tickled' by the compliment.

There were a few good bands there throughout the weekend but the one that everyone really seemed to like was Hootn'Anges.

Here's a photo of my sister, my mom, and I with the band.  They played all sorts of music - not just country music.  They did a great take on "Me & My Bobby McGee" as well as "Cotton Eyed Joe" and "Love Is (What I Got).

I'm told they were recently signed by a label.  I also heard they will be back in the area for the Fall Fest.  They were a FUN band to watch!

Here's a photo of our set-up.  I have LOTS more to post in the coming days...including a wonderfully FUN announcement that I hinted at last week!  I'm so excited!  I will official announce that tomorrow, most likely!

How was your weekend?  How was the weather?  Did you do anything fun or out of the ordinary?

Relay For Life Quarter Auction, Homemade Wine, & My Dad

I can't believe it's been a full two weeks since I attended a local Relay For Life Quarter Auction.  I wanted to blog about this well before now!  Oops!

This is the first Quarter Auction I have ever been to.  It was a bit confusing at first but it ended up being REALLY fun and I know they raised a slew of money for their Relay Team!

The girl who arranged it is a friend of mine and she started her team because she has lost her sister, mother, and uncle all to cancer.  My mom, dad, and I participated in the fundraising auction as participants but didn't win anything.  We also participated as donators of our Wildtree Products, too, and our auction items seemed to have a lot of interest!  In addition we did a live tasting during before, during, and after the event - and during the breaks.  It was a FUN time!

In the first photo above you can see my father with the pink number signs!  I LOVE him dearly!  He's an awesome guy! 

I follow a few of his high school buddies on Facebook, too!  A week or two ago one of his friends posted this photo of him.  My dad thinks it was from when we he was leave from his time with the Navy during Vietnam.  He was on the USS Kitty Hawk during that time.  I just LOVE old photos!  I think he looks adorable in this picture!

In other DAD News...

His Wine Making is going VERY well!  He has started a white wine and will be entering his semi-dry into next weekend's Amateur Wine Making Contest.

I really hope he places!  It would be a VERY big deal for him!  I will certainly keep you posted on that! 

Here's another look at his revised Wine Bottle Labels!  The one he's entering is the RED.

I  think he will be purchasing two more containers so he can have more than 2 wine's 'working' at the same time.  One of these days I should take photos while I am over there and post them so you can see them!  It's an interesting process that he's been trying to explain to my sister and I for a while now!

I have to say the wines I have tasted that he's made so far have been VERY GOOD...they have exceeded my expectations!  And with them being the first wine's he's tried - I think the outcome was EXCELLENT!  He's had a lot of feedback from other wine lovers already and he's very pleased.  I think I take after him in that regard...when we get positive feedback from others it just makes us want to do more and more!  I'm so proud of him for getting into Wine Making - it's a great new hobby for him and something that mom and dad can do together!