The Tomato Cafe & Tea Room

Dave and I just got back from a week-long beach vacation in Florida. Using the wonderful TeaMap Directory, I located a tea shop in Havana, about an hour north of our final destination.  We made a late afternoon stop at The Tomato Cafe & Tea Room on the drive down.  Dave tried a Gingerbread Creme black tea, and I ordered the Snickerdoodle black tea.

The verdict: Dave liked his tea, and I really wanted to like mine, too.  It smelled wonderful, but it tasted funny.  I realized the next day that the problem was the Florida tap water when I brewed one of my regular teas for breakfast and couldn't force myself to finish it.  Unfortunately, the Tomato Cafe didn't seem to have tea for sale loose-leaf or in teabags.  This probably won't be a stop on future road trips unless I bring bottled water for them to use for my tea, and sadly this has confirmed that I am a tap water snob...

Summer Stitching

Finishing the Sewing Room has allowed me to start a new
cross stitch project.  What is it?  Wait and see...

Using a double-strand of red chenille yarn makes a nice winter scarf

Finished in August: A fuchsia chenille scarf and a
child's fringed scarf in some purple remnants from previous projects

Knitting patterns: Crushed-Velvet Scarf from Simple 1-2-3 Knitting Scarves (red scarf), Easy Scarf in Faggot Stitch (fuchsia scarf), and I honestly don't remember the pattern for the purple remnant scarf because I frogged it so many times--I was trying to make a full-sized scarf from the remnant yarn, but I finally gave up, added a fringe, and dubbed it a "princess scarf" for some lucky little girl...