I love my "Red Rose Tea".
I think you can only get it in Canada

but I was told by
A sales rep. from" Mother Parker"
whom by the way makes Tim Horton's coffee.
That "Teley" has No Grade

"Does anyone else get a headache from Camomile tea?"

I am a bit of a tea snob I realized.

"Does anyone know where to buy nice tea cozies? I have a lovely needlepoint and velvet one and would like to pick up a few as gifts."

Ideoform: If you are sad because you can't use teas as medicinals, you can purchase teas packaged in capsule form in vitamin/supplement shops.

Use tea powders like a spice:
There are tea powders you can add to things like ice cream, smoothies, and a lot of recipes in cooking. Or you can make your own by using a spice grinder and grinding the tea into a powder.

Tea as an electrolyte drink:
Try making tea and then adding it to any fruit juice. Diluting fruit juice this way makes a great electrolyte drink, as fruits are good electrolytes, and the mild caffeine goes well with fruit or vegetable juices (of course, coffee wouldn't work as well for this.)

Tea au Lait: Tea with milk.
(like Cafe au Lait - Coffee with Milk)
I like using coconut milk, yogurt, or coconut yogurt, instead of regular milk in a drink.

Tea spoils.
I have noticed that people who don't like tea generally have a box of very old tea in their cupboard for guests, and whenever they "try tea" again, it is stale and flavorless. Tea is essentially a dried vegetable that has some aromatic oils in it. Tea looses all its flavour after about 6 months, but why wait even that long? If you want to try tea again, get a box of "tea samplers" and have some right away. If you still don't like tea, you can give it to a tea drinker or to your local food pantry. (But don't wait 6 months to do this.)

Types of tea:
For an example, think of the leaves on the trees in spring. The first early leaves that bud in the spring are green or white tea. Very mild. The mid-summer leaves are green but can be dried and roasted to make a darker, stronger beverage. This is "black" tea. If you think of what you are raking up in the fall, that is the dead, stale tea a lot of people have in the back of their kitchen cabinets.

Try tea made by tea "experts."
I suggest going to the mall and trying some tea samples at the store called "Teavana." The prices are kinda high at the mall, but they do have specials and their cards make great gifts for us tea lovers. You might find that when you drink tea made from fresh tea leaves, and processed with filtered or bottled water, you might enjoy it.

Your taste buds need time to adjust.
The thing that happens when people get used to drinking lots of very highly sweetened sodas and strong coffee is that these flavours and aromas are so strong, and the sense effect of drinking carbonated liquids and using iced water, is so overpowering that you can cover up really bad tasting water. If you can't seem to drink plain, uncarbonated, room temperature water, it is probably the water you are using that is the problem.

Some notes on making tea.
I also have noticed that it is not good to switch from using utensils to make coffee and tea. There is always a coffee residue on the items you are using, even if they are washed because of a film of oil that tends to stick to things...and the tea takes on this slight coffee flavor. So then the tea tastes like ultra-diluted coffee, which is not that great of a taste (bad). Use a ceramic mug, a mug you really like, and just use it for tea.

If you recall the difference that Starbucks made years ago when they started their business shipping in very fresh coffee beans and roasting and grinding it within days of serving it, you might appreciate the difference that these small details might make with tea, also. I remember the days of going to work and drinking instant coffee served in styrofoam cups out of vending machines. The styrofoam cup added its own plastic taste, the coffee was often bitter and had a burned taste.

Coffee drinkers and caffinated Soda drinkers might go through withdrawal.
You can get headaches, even migranes from caffeine withdrawal. Ramp down these other drinks slowly and give your body some time to get to a non-caffeinated state and then you might notice the milder and less edgy effect of the caffeine in tea.

Tea is less likely to make you jittery and sleepless at night. But can still give you an uplift.

I hope this helps you find Tea Serenity. (Or at least to make better tea when us tea lovers come to visit.)

Tea au Lait: Tea with milk.
(like Cafe au Lait - Coffee with Milk)
I like using coconut milk, yogurt, or coconut yogurt, instead of regular milk in a drink.

"What is coconut yogurt and where do you get it, better yet, how is it made?"