Tea Cup Quilled Card

I love this card!!!

I am a fan of quilling, my mom used to do it...and even I have have made a few quilled items.  But, nothing like this card!!!

I found it at Lehmans Hardware in Kidron Ohio.  https://www.lehmans.com/

Each quilled card is beautifully handmade by a highly skilled artisan and takes one hour to create. A quilled card is meant for you to share, treasure as a keepsake, or display as the work of art it is.

https://quillingcard.com/products/quilled-love-latte-greeting-card?_pos=2&_sid=1f4db630f&_ss=r

I have been looking for just the right frame for this card.  Knowing that the quilling made it thicker and I could not use a regular frame.

Then I was in a second hand store and saw a quilled card that framed!!  Perfect and it was only $2.00.  And now I have a quilled heart card that I can send to someone else. (Although I have no idea what the Chinese writing says, so I want to be careful who I would send it too, lol)

I love that there was a matte already included with the frame.  It is just beautiful and my card is protected. 

Check out the detail.  These cards run about $11...totally worth it.  I would not make this card for $11.00  They have lots of designs and styles.  Check out the website, they are all beautiful!

Li Wah Red Bean Milk Tea In Clevelands Asia Plaza

Heading to Cleveland for some dim sum and tea....

https://liwahrestaurant.com/

This restaurant was voted best Chinese Restaurant in Cleveland in 2021.

Red Bean Tea is a Taiwanese hot or cold tea drink made out of red beans.  Red beans (Adzuki )— are a good source of iron, phosphorus and potassium. They're also an excellent low-fat source of protein and dietary fiber. Red beans also contain phytonutrients. may include their ability to aid in weight loss, prevent and manage diabetes, optimize digestion, contribute to growth and repair, increase energy, lower blood pressure, reduce birth defects in infants, and detoxify the body.

My friend, Heidi and I, did our Wednesday Wanderings in Cleveland at Li Wah. 

Li Wah is in the Asia town in Cleveland.  It is one of the largest tea house in Northeast Ohio. I love a good adventure and exploring new place and this place qualifies for sure as a new place and a new adventure. 

I'm a huge fan dim sum and this was so much fun.

The food was really good and there was so much variety.

I love that they came around with a cart and asked what we would like to try...we did pot stickers, shrimp dumplings, fried Taro, and more.

I also enjoyed the hot tea and it was really hot, lol.

The fried Taro was my favorite.  It instantly took me back to Malaysia!  

The Red Bean Milk tea was good.  It was what you expect...sweetened milk with red beans.

There really are red beans in this tea!

The tea was good, not something I would drink on a regular basis. but good.  I forget how sweet some milk tea can be.  It is unique and fun to try.

Heidi did the bubble tea.

This is a fun restaurant and I look forward to going back again.  The restaurant is in a plaza, so be sure you leave time to do some shopping. 

Wallhouse Coffee, Ti Kwan Yin Oolong Tea

https://wallhousecoffee.com/

One of my friends told me about this coffee and tea place that was in Sugarcreek.  Sugarcreek is about 45 minutes away so I made a day of it.  Wallhouse opened in 2008.  It kind of reminds me of a Panera.

The inside was fun and there was lots of options for seating.

There are lots of food and drink options.  It took me awhile to even decide what to get.  I ended up getting a salad and an oolong tea.

The Ti Kwan Yin Oolong was very good. I was super excited to find an good oolong tea at a mainly coffee shop.  Oolong is my favorite tea, but the hardest for me to find in cafes.

The tea was a delightful surprise!!  It is a classic Chinese oolong.  It has slight mild orchid notes along with the typical oolong notes I love.  Wallhouse was very nice.  The prices were decent.  The staff was very helpful and friendly.  I would recommend this place if you are in the area. 

I gave this tea a 4 out of 5 tea cups.

While I was in Sugarcreek I checked out some of the shops in town.  Sugarcreek is also known as Little Switzerland.  I am Swiss on both sides of my family.  I have been to Switzerland once, but not to the town that I want to go, Grindlewald.  Grindlewald is where the Kaufmann side is from.  

I was in Lugano and Lucerne- both beautiful and gorgeous. 

Below are some pics from 1997...

Are you my knight in shining armor??

Boy, do I wish we had camera phones back then.  I lugged 18 rolls of film and my camera across Europe.  I was gone for two weeks with my aunt her college friend and my college friend.  It was a dream come true.  We did a tour and I just loved it.  We started in London, went to Paris, then Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany and Amsterdam.

The country side was my favorite.  It was so much fun exploring the places I had only read about in history books.

Now, back in 2021 and in Ohio.  I am checking out Little Switzerland, Sugarcreek Ohio.  It is a cute little town.  I stopped in an antique store and looked at the world's largest cuckoo clock.

This clock comes alive on the hour and half hour.  We used to see this clock when I was little.  It used to be on top of a restaurant in Sugarcreek, the Alpine Alpa.  I was not a fan of this restaurant, but my grandparents loved it, so we would go there with them.  The reward for going there was to see the clock at the end of the meal.