Camellia Sinensis
Camellia sinensis is the tea plant, the plant species whose leaves and leaf buds are used to produce tea. It is of the genus Camellia (Chinese: 茶花; pinyin: Cháhuā), a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. White tea, green tea, oolong and black tea are all harvested from this species, but are processed differently to attain different levels of oxidation.

Whew!! The last two days have been a blur of thread, papers(wonderful hand made papers) colors purple, olive green, black, turquoise, brown...beads, felt, birds, laughter, music and really good food.I have been busy with my hands again, making a few new sweetlings for my shop update tomorrow, I have had much fun and serenity making them, I hope they find a new home where they will be as loved as much as I poured my own love into making them, does that make sense?...I must apologize in advance, for it is growing late, and my eyes are blurry from staring at row after row of the littlest perfect stitches, all day...:)

These days are quite lovely indeed~

I think I will begin to share with you my favorite teas that I am drinking, once and a while...I am in the paused stage of building my Tea shop, I am hand coding it, or shall I say was, hand coding, until I was bitten by the etsy bug.But lo one day soon I will resume ..oh you pushed aside tea shop...But anyway, I have been so very fortunate and appropriately so, tasting teas from a plethora of wonderful tea companies, for the last few months, so boy do I have some favorite teas!Ok, so for the last few days, I have been consuming the most wonderful Japanese Green Teas, especially their Seneca, from a family owned, grower, named SA, I have been meaning to list it for sale at Sushi & Japanese Market..(that etsy bug again) but if any of you would like to purchase some and become hopelessly addicted, as I have, let me know and I will actually do something non etsy and list their teas at Sushi & Japanese Market for you.^_^Well I could keep going, as you probably could start to tell, I can be quite a chatterbox, sometimes ;0

But as my hands and eyes are beginning to tingle from overuse, I must call it a night and go byebye...But I will be up bright and early (ok, in reality as late as I possibly can) to take photos and list the new sweetlings in the Sakura etsy shop, so do drop in and take a peek won't you?Good Night You.gs

Yesterday and today have been bright and sunny here in the desert,
the light is piercing and hot, it covers this land and
intensifies all things of color...
I was particularly busy making a bright and pretty old fashioned yellow apron,
it turned out so well, I really am thinking of keeping it for myself,
but in the end I always get much more pleasure in
sending my hand made goods
off to the most lovely and appreciative ladies...
Speaking of which I have been riding a wave of happiness and glowing
with pride about the first two sales over in my etsy shop,
I have sold the hand embroidered tree & a little red felt pouch,
(thank you Sara & Mary Ann), the two sales have renewed my
resolve and I am more dedicated than aver to my craft these days,
I feel as though I can barely contain my inspiration and have
multiple projects in the works as we speak,
and so many i my head and in sketchbooks,
i definitely need more hours in a day.
I hope to be able to purchase a camera soon,
which will allow me to capture all of these
projects in their various stages for you to spy...
I seem to be able to fully finish 2 small projects everyday,
on my best days, that's when everything is running smoothly
and everyone is cooperating well, we love those types of days!!!
There are so many materials that I have been collecting
that are calling my hands to create with,
in the days to come look out for lace, muslin, polymer clay
and maybe some beads and findings....
Thank You for taking a moment to spend with me
here in my little Sakura Art Studio..
I would love to hear from you,
so feel free to post a comment, email or convo me.
I am looking forward to sharing some more of my
thoughts and hand made goodies,
with you so stay tuned...
Peace. Hope. serenity.
georgia