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teabag folding

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christmaslovingbluealien · 13/12/2005 08:28

is there a point to this?

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MrsFrostgetful · 13/12/2005 09:14

...i still don't get why its called teabag folding!!!! (something historical no doubt!!!)

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COPPERfeelunderSantasTOP · 13/12/2005 09:44

Dare I ask what it is???? I have visions of someone doing an odd version of origami with a box of PG Tips......

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DingleBells · 13/12/2005 09:47

he he he...it's a technique used in card making, yes, very similar to origami....not a technique I use or like much personally.

have a look here

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COPPERfeelunderSantasTOP · 13/12/2005 09:53

It looks very fiddly and time-consuming. I would never have that kind of patience.

Thanks for the link. You really do learn something new every day on here.

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sevensuzyswongsaswimming · 13/12/2005 09:55

why, why, why oh why would anyone who wasn't in a gulag or mentally ill do this?

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Easy · 13/12/2005 10:02

And they say lifes too short to stuff a mushroom!

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MrsFrostgetful · 13/12/2005 10:41

i'm always afraid to admit what i hate on Mumsnet...'case i offend!!!

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feastofsteven · 13/12/2005 10:43

It's absolutely nothing to do with teabags apparently!!! it's just to do with tesselations and patterns from what I can see, so seems like a reasonable enough thing to me...

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Easy · 13/12/2005 10:45

Must admit that I thought it involved the PG tips too.

Must be bl%%dy difficult with pyramid bags !!!

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MrsFrostgetful · 13/12/2005 10:47

you see i love decoupage...which is tediously cutting pictures and layering them up....and i know people either love or hate that!!!

I could sit for hours cutting out pictures....find it very relaxing....yet there are some crafts that i cannot bear to try!!!

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WigWamBam · 13/12/2005 10:47

They only call it tea-bag folding because it was (allegedly) invented by a man who used the decorative paper from his packets of tea to make the patterns.

I like it, a friend of my MIL's does it and some of the cards she makes are really intricate and pretty. If I had the patience and the ability (and the time) it's something I'd quite like to try ... whether that says anything about my mental state is neither here nor there

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MrsFrostgetful · 13/12/2005 10:47

jaysmum...c'mon...you'll know the origin of teabagging.....come on ...wherever you are!

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DingleBells · 13/12/2005 10:48

It takes all sort of people....not my cup of tea either!! But I am still trying to work of the mushroom thing..never heard that before and I LUUUURVE stuffed mushroom!

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MrsFrostgetful · 13/12/2005 10:48

must admit i love them when they are layered and embossed...still haven't made one myself tho!

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christmaslovingbluealien · 13/12/2005 10:49

i think if it had a different name i might find it more appealing

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COPPERfeelunderSantasTOP · 13/12/2005 10:49

Thank goodness it's not just me then! It sounds like something you'd do when guests came for tea. "I'll have the Tetley please. Make mine a swan."


Apologies to any teabagging fans out there.

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christmaslovingbluealien · 13/12/2005 10:50

you lot have me really into crafty things now.
[sticking tongue out at you emoticon]

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COPPERfeelunderSantasTOP · 13/12/2005 10:51
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Easy · 13/12/2005 10:53

DingleBells,

"Life's too short to stuff a mushroom" is a quotation from a book which was published when I was younger (I'm an oldie on here).

I think it was from SuperWoman by Shirley Conran.

I'm off to find a link. see you here soon.

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DingleBells · 13/12/2005 10:53

I'm going now! Should be getting on with making my xmas cards...but my mind is on other things!
Funny enough I have a cuppa sitting out there, in the conservatory, surrounded by all my card making goodies...just waiting for me!

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DingleBells · 13/12/2005 10:55

Thanks easy, I've learnt something today too then!

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WeWhizzzYouAMerryXmas · 13/12/2005 20:06

Wasn't it down to the fact that they used to package loose tea in folded up paper something like that ? I remember seeing that somewhere in a craft mag

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CliffRichardSucksEggsinHell · 13/12/2005 20:12

You lot fold your teabags? Oh dear oh dear.

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