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Tea Cup Photo Competition

Our wonderful panel of judges have picked their favorite tea photos from our Spill It Tea Forum and the $100 tea gift certificate winners are:

1) $100 Most Original Tea Cup winner:  

 Cup O' Tea Bags by ElfRenee

2) $100 Most Unique Use of Tea Cup winner:

  Carpenter's Cup by Guannan

3) $100 Most Original Tea Cup Setting winner:

Tibetan Tea in Beijing by AFrisk

We actually had an Honorary Mention tea photo for Most Original Tea Cup.  Our judges had a tough time choosing so we decided to award this tea cup photo a $25 gift certificate as well!

 Cat and the Fiddle by Kathy

Congratulations to our winners! Your photos were very creative, beautiful and worthy of loads of free, gourmet tea!

Enjoy!

Introducing the California Tea House Tea Cup Photo Competition

It's time to get creative!

It's fun, it's simple and there's $300 in free tea gift certificates at stake.  The rules are simple; visit our Spill It Forum and post your tea cup photo in the Tea Cup Photo Competition forum.  The photos will be judged by an amazing panel of guest judges (see below) on a basis of 3 categories.  A $100 gift certificate to California Tea House will be given away for the photo with the most votes in each of three categories. 

Here are the 3 tea cup photo categories:

1)  Most Original Tea Cup

2)  Most Unique Use of Tea Cup

3)  Most Original Tea Cup Setting

Our panel of guest judges will vote on their favorite photos for each of the categories.  A special thank you and welcome to our guest judges:

Rae Lewis Thorton

Emmy Award winning AIDS activist Rae Lewis-Thornton rose to national acclaim when she told her story of living with AIDS in a cover story for Essence Magazine.  She has been living with HIV for 28 years and AIDS for 20.  The last eighteen years Rae has traveled worldwide in an unending crusade challenging stereotypes and myths about HIV/ADIS.  Rae has been featured in countless magazines and newspapers, including O - The Oprah Magazine and many others.  Recently, Rae launched her Tea With Rae project on her Diva blog, where she blogs about tea and tea products weekly.  Tea calms and comforts Rae in her chaotic life of living with AIDS, thus, the Tea With Rae project is wellness for the body, mind and spirit.  Make sure you stop by to have 'Tea With Rae' when you get a chance: www.raelewisthornton.com

Karen Hochman of The Nibble

Karen Hochman was editor-in-chief of her high school newspaper and the paper at Columbia Business School, but journalism is her second career.  Previously, she was a packagegoods brand manager, vice president of marketing at Citigroup and president of the integrated marketing division of Jordon, McGrath, Case and Partners, a national advertising agency (now Arnold Worldwide).  Karen then went to work for two dot-coms as vice president of marketing.  A wine collector, avid cook and baker, she decided to combine her experience and in 2004 founded THE NIBBLE, the first webzine (and in fact, the first consumer publication) devoted to specialty foods, food education and supporting artisan producers.  It now has almost 1 million unique monthly readers and covers more than 70 food categories.  Find out what you've been missing at The Nibble: www.thenibble.com

The Mom Jen

Blogging for three years at Musings of The Mom Jen http://www.themomjen.com and 2 years at The Mom Reviews http://www.themomreviews.com, Jen is a former teacher, now a stay-at-home-mom of 3 children, ages 12, 10 and 5.  She lives in central coast California with her husband and spends her free time driving to and from schools, dance lessons and baseball/soccer practice.  While in her deepest fantasies Jen would love to be a comedian/singer/hula dancer, she can be typically found working on the computer trying to fight off the urge to eat carbs and craving sunshine. 

Tiffany Romero

Tiffany is an active social media personality who believes in the power of 140 characters.  She is also the chick behind a community of over 8,500 bloggers called thesitsgirls.comand the national tour of educational conferences for women in social media known as Bloggy Boot Camp.  When not on-line, Tiffany keeps busy running a private Los Angeles summer camp with her husband, shuttling her 10 year old son to baseball practice and devouring YA fiction.  You can usually find Tiffany twitting about the Real Housewives or other pressing world issues @TiffanyRom. 

Your image will be reviewed before being published, so once you submit it the forum, it will take up to 24 hours before your photo entry appears on the forum.  Image submittals will be accepted until midnight PST on June 30, 2011.  The winners will be announced within 2 weeks of the final submittal.  Good luck and have fun! 

It's that time again... Saint Patrick's Day is almost here.  To help you get your party ready for the day that celebrates anything and everything green, we are offering our green tea collection to you at 35% off for a limited time only! 

Use coupon code: LUCKYGREEN  to get an extra 35% off all green tea and as always - FREE SHIPPING!

expires: 3/17/2011

Have a safe and fun Saint Patty's Day!!

Welcome to California Tea House

We are a family owned and operated specialty, loose leaf tea store with a collection of estate grown teas from all over the world.  We also have very popular, custom blended teas mixed with a variety of preserved fruit, herbs, spices and flower petals.  Enjoy!

The Groupon system is easy.  Simply enter the coupon code from the upper right hand corner of your Groupon certificate in the 'Enter Coupon Code' box during checkout. 

While you're here...   Make sure to check out these key features:

- We offer free shipping on all orders with no minimum

- Earn Tea Tokens with every purchase (Including your Groupon purchase) good towards free tea

- Tea Tokens are also given away for leaving tea reviews, blog comments and forum posts

- Send $5 gift certificates to all your family and friends for FREE on the order confirmation page - when they use the gift certificate you earn more Tea Tokens as well!

Join the Tea Community! 

From now until July 31, 2010, 11:59pm EST, ALL new registrants at www.CaliforniaTeaHouse.com will receive a gift certificate with a minimum of $5 and a maximum of $50. Registering simply includes signing up with a valid name, address and email and opting to receiving the newsletter. The register link is located in the upper right corner of the webpage. 

You must REGISTER, not just sign up for the newsletter.  Gift certificates are limited to one per household. Winners will receive the gift certificate awards on a randomly selected basis.  The top award winners will be posted on this blog posting below at the end of the month. 

For everyone who is already a member, be on the lookout in upcoming newsletters for new specials and promotions!  Enjoy!

Gift Certificate Winners:

$50 Gift Certificate: rvdru, bobaco, galapogos

$10 Gift Certificates: charley, lauren, lisalaw, laurarebol, marco.downs, lizzyhovey, judi, bar2663, bomar97, jennrippy, drsean, consorte_bella, viva4, DinaJ, Jakaleah, tuckeram, melf6894, caliblonde, bishopsweeps, alibop, majorcat, duranza, scorpgal2010, lilpinky1234, dianabd3, mlaureli, kznomore, dnewwmann 

Congratulations and welcome to California Tea House!