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Happy Pi Day! Have you hugged a math geek today?

Fruit Pi soaps by RosaleenDhu Designs

Eye Candy: More Data as Art

More pretty data! Wired Science has a ton of lovely data visualizations, including this one that speaks to our librarian-geek hearts.

Wired Science in general has a lot of gorgeous science photos.

Jasmine-Flavored Tea

Jasmine Pearl Tea photo from World Spice

My all-time favorite tea is Jasmine Pearl Tea from World Spice. In fact, I'm having some right now. I don't know what it is about their Jasmine Pearl tea, but it beats the others I've gotten from almost anywhere - except Natur'el Tea's, which was also quite good. Skip Teavana's version. The only problem is that it's expensive, so I tend to make it a treat. My default, every-day tea is Peet's Jasmine Fancy tea - still has that floralness that I like even if it's not quite as good. But it also fits in the budget.

My love of jasmine was one of the reasons that I was so eager to use it in our Sweetheart (Honey-Jasmine) lollipops. It helped, of course, that Lavender did so poorly in the taste testing. Yum, Jasmine!

MOAR TEA

Before getting down to the Serious Business™ of conducting a long-distance lollipop photoshoot on Sunday, Kate and I naturally had to fortify ourselves with hot tea. She was drinking Jasmine green tea; I was enjoying some Champaign Oolong that I picked up from Natur’el Tea at One of A Kind Vancouver.

This is a screen capture from our instant messaging video chat window. I (Susan) am in the little picture-in-picture. Kate *claimed* it was overcast in San Fran (it was raining, I swear! -k8), but look at all that light flooding in behind her…



Cheers!

A Photo, Deconstructed

photo by Kevin Keeker

If you were paying attention to us on twitter on Sunday, you know we were taking some photos. (And drinking tea in an INCREDIBLY backlit screenshot of me. Sudz looks great.)

This is one of the photos that didn't make the Etsy cut. Why?

1. The sugar cane in front oddly dominates the picture.
2. This is the back of bag, not the front.
3. We felt that the patterns on the teapot competed too much.
4. In fact, there was just too much to look at overall.

We'll have other, better, pictures of our Adventure Pack packaging on Etsy soon, so you can see what did satisfy us.

Happy Gluten-Free Birthday!

photo by Kevin Keeker

I have a few friends with celiac disease, also known as gluten intolerance and I’ve come to really admire the creative alternatives that they use. One of my friends has shared some of her gluten free cookies with me and they were seriously delicious.

All of our lollipop ingredients are gluten-free, so any of our flavors can be enjoyed if you’ve eliminated gluten from your diet. But we wanted to call special attention to our Birthday Cake flavor, which makes a particularly great treat for a gluten-free birthday celebration.

photo by Kevin Keeker

We mix a few different flavors to emulate the taste of a classic yellow cake. We’re very proud of this one – people are amazed by its cake-y taste. For fun, we put festive neon candy sprinkles (which are rice-based and gluten free) in the molds before pouring in the syrup, which results in colorful polka dots floating inside the finished lollipops.

So if you’re hoping to taste “cake” without ingesting gluten and without having to do any baking, check out our lollipops!