Welcome to the Finding Joy in Your Home Podcast. I am your host, Jamie Balmay, and this is the podcast where we blend deeply theological topics with thoroughly practical application, all for God's glory.

Hey friends, welcome back to the Finding Joy in Your Home podcast. I am your host, Jamie Balmay. And today I have a very fabulous interview for you. I am talking with Marla,

and we're talking about creating your own tea blends. Okay, this might sound like a very specific topic,

but Marla is really going to get into how we can create our own teas for a whole variety of situations,

whether for ourselves, for hospitality to give as gifts.

And I think that this is a really, really fun topic, especially as homemakers who are,

you know, take our homes seriously and want to be able to use our homes as hospitality.

And I just think this is a really, really fun topic.

So we're going to dive into that.

She's got some terrific recommendations.

She's got some great starter tea blends to share and a couple of resources for learning more.

This recording is from our second annual hands-on homesteading online conference that we did back at the end of June.

And this was one of the

sessions. So if you did attend that conference, you're going to recognize this. But it applies,

obviously, homesteaders are going to be interested in growing your own tea and making your own tea

blends. But this is just such a fun topic that I knew was a very, a very homemaking one that we had to share here

on the podcast. So we will jump into that in a little while. You will hear from our two sponsors

for today's episode, Honey Love and Aqua True. But I had just a couple of announcements for you

before we jump in. The first thing is thank you so much for everybody who ordered in our shop

for the summer collection.

We are working on getting all of those cookbooks and the dresses ordered and everything

in so that we can turn around and get those all shipped out.

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