12 days of Christmas Contest!
By Danny on Dec 7 Filed In Sweet Consumers, Sweet Contests 129 Comments
It’s almost that time of year again and we here at Sweet Leaf Tea are keeping a tradition alive! Each year [for 2 years now] we create our OWN 12 days of Christmas and share it with you guys! But we love to SWEETEN the deal, soooooo we throw in prizes to each day. After each new verse to the Christmas hymn we give you an opportunity to participate with comments to score you some pretty nifty gifts!
That’s 12 days to score a present for yourself. All you have to do is get in the holiday spirit and play along. So…………….
ON THIS FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS, MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME…
One Sweet Leaf GRANNY.
Have you ever gotten one of those special gifts from your Granny that just made you chuckle?
The best story will win an AWESOME giftbag. We’ll announce a winner each day so leave us a note in the comment section to kick it off. Check back tomorrow to see who won and enter to win another day.
The Cutest Granny Panties You’ve Ever Seen
By Charla on Jun 19 Filed In Celebrities 9 Comments
Oh, Kendra! We’ve got something special headed your way. When we heard the E! star from the hit show Kendra was getting hitched and having a bridal shower with all of her gal pals, we couldn’t resist sending a little something from Austin, Texas for the party. Our only question was, “What does Sweet Leaf Tea get Kendra Wilkinson for her bridal shower?”
After much deliberation, napkin drawings, and random doodles (better left to the imagination), we turned to Granny for inspiration. And as usual, she delivered with a dose of wisdom and a splash of good etiquette. According to custom, the only thing truly appropriate for this type of girlie soiree is a panty—but not just any ol’ panty. These would, without a doubt, have to be Granny Panties.
And, I can guarantee that you’ve never seen granny panties cuter than these Granny-fied American Apparel knickers. (Thanks Tripp T-Shirts!) There is a cute little Granny on the front and a touch of “Homemade Goodness” on the back. All the girls in the office wanted a pair to call their own, but there just wasn’t enough to go around. After all, these granny panties were destined for the soon-to-be Mrs. Baskett. Congratulations Kendra from all your friends in Austin, Texas!
Tune into Kendra on E! and keep a look out for these Sweet Leaf Tea Granny Panties. Maybe we’ll get to see her reaction!
So, what do y’all think? Will Kendra love them?
Sweet Leaf Tea Granny Panties for Kendra Wilkinson's Bridal Shower.
Inter-Office Guitar Blog Contest: Entry # 5 (FINAL)
By April on May 23 Filed In Austin, Texas, Epiphone Guitar, Live Music, Sweet Consumers, Sweet Leaf Tea Company News 1 Comment
Entry # 5 Emily ($) Suttles
Emily’s Mis-Adventures: Lollapalooza 2006
Sweet Leaf Tea has never pretended to be one of the most organized & structured companies who conforms to traditional ways of doing things. I feel that it is important to preface this story with this information as some anomalous activities took place during Lollapalooza 2006. Well, maybe just anomalous for most companies…not so much ours.
I’ve been with Sweet Leaf Tea for 5 years, started as an intern making sample boxes and doing accounting work on the floor of a law firm that we were renting offices from, so I’ve had my share of ups and downs with this company. Lollapalooza 2006 was definitely a rollercoaster of emotions.
For those of you who don’t know, Sweet Leaf has a big, blue, eye sore of a school bus. I rode in this beast up with two other co-workers up to Chicago for the music festival. This school bus has no AC, no cruise control, and an unpleasant smell. Somehow, I got stuck driving from 1 am – 6 am and I made my own cruise control using a camera tripod which was probably not the safest thing to do. So, we arrive in Chicago, which for those of you who have ever been to Chicago, maneuvering a big school bus around is not an easy thing to accomplish. Once we finally parked, unloaded and unpacked the bus, we headed to Grant Park to help set up our booths at the festival. Aside from the two booths and VIP lounges that we sponsor, Sweet Leaf Tea is also sold at the bars. Upon my arrival, an intern and I were immediately commissioned to go get six large igloo coolers (a person could fit in these things) for the bars to keep our product cold. Our festival logistics manager had a Kia SUV rental car so we hopped in and set off to Costco. Upon purchasing these coolers, we realized that only 3 would actually fit in the car. Our intern suggested that we tie two to the roof with a couple bungie cords and call it a day. I was a little hesitant to do this, but being that he was so insistent that this would work just fine, I got in the driver’s seat and we started our drive back to Grant Park. We entered the exit ramp of a major freeway, and I’m really getting nervous about the coolers so I ask our intern to peak his head out the window to see if the coolers look like they are still safely secured to the roof. He assures me that they are. Not two minutes later, do I hear two loud thuds — yes, these massive coolers have just flown off the top of our Kia. I am panicked because someone could get seriously hurt if a cooler hit their windshield. Thank God the coolers bounced to the emergency lane out of traffic. After recovering from my small heart attack, we decided we should try to get these coolers back because these suckers were not cheap. I made the u-turn to come back up to get the coolers and it was not but a few minutes that a party rental van pulled over, six men jumped out and proceeded to try to steal our coolers!!! They made off with one. Our intern thought it would be a brilliant idea to go get more coolers and again strap these coolers to the roof. I didn’t exactly want blood on my hands when I was just trying to enjoy a music festival and sell some tea, so I completely ignored this absurd suggestion.
The festival began. I listened to some music, slung some tea and performed my duty of collecting money from our cash boxes and put them in my backpack each day. (At this time, I was SLT’s accountant and not yet living the luxurious life of as a SLT saleswoman). It was understood, or so I thought, that the money was going to go back with the SLT employees who were driving the bus back to Austin because I was flying home and no one was ever able to go deposit the money at the bank because we were all working the booths. The day comes where it is time to leave – I need to get to O’Hare and the bus is heading back to Austin. The guys who were taking the bus back decided to leave in the middle of the night. So, I take my luggage and backpack and head for O’Hare airport. I miss my flight and now have to go through security with a bunch of small bills and a sack of quarters. I am terrified that I will either be pegged as a drug dealer or stripper. I carefully placed the backpack on the conveyor belt and held my breath. I hear a “ma’am, do you have a bunch of change in your bag or somethin.” I reply,” yes, I have a lot of quarters.” “Oh, okay.” Whew! I made it. Clayton is also on my flight, and shockingly, he missed the flight as well. Because I checked in before him, I got priority for stand-by on the next flight. I get on the flight that is leaving an hour later. Clayton does not. He thinks that he can just pull rank and I will just step aside. Heck no. I had already been working in Chicago for 2 weeks and beyond ready to get home that I wouldn’t have cared if I got fired on the spot. So we started talking numbers in exchange for my seat. Let’s just say I worked out a pretty sweet deal with our CEO to remain at O’Hare so he could take the flight back to Austin. You would think I could get on a flight that day but O’Hare never ceases to amaze me. I can’t get a flight until the next morning and every hotel in town is booked. Guess who gets to sleep in the concourse with a money pillow. I tried to look inconspicuous but with the kung fu death grip I had on this bag, I might have failed at that task. Needless to say, I made it home finally. We counted the money at the office….thirty thousand dollars.
Moral of this story, never tie coolers to the roof of a car, avoid O’Hare airport at all costs, and if you get yourself in a bind, make sure you’re surrounded with good people, good music and even better…a little homemade goodness in a bottle.
EMILY $ SUTTLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Controversial & Jubilant Contest Winner!
By April on May 14 Filed In Sweet Consumers, Sweet Leaf Tea Company News 1 Comment
Recently, Adi announced a blog contest where he listed a set of key words and asked our readers to take them and write something creative with them. Here is the list of words: Burned, Conspiracy, Disinformation, Fleece, Swindle, Banned, Controversial, Exposed, Insider, Taboo, Agony, Foundering, Helpless, Paralyzed, Surrender, passionate, Blissful, Delightful, Jubilant, Rave, Thrilled, Deadline, Limited, and Size.
Diana Krueger of Riverside CA won by submitting a hilarious paragraph built from the words listed above. Feel free to crack open a cold Sweet Leaf Tea and prepare to laugh out loud.
It wasn’t until Sweet Leaf Tea headquarters burned to the ground yesterday that all of the disinformation spread about by jealous tea competitors was finally exposed. Not only had this tragic event involved a conspiracy between several disenchanted sheep–the kindling for the arson having been fleece–but it was also revealed by an insider that the aforementioned competitors, foundering and helpless in the vast sea of their inferiority, had banned Sweet Leaf Tea from the homes of all of their employees; even mere discussion of the controversial tea company was taboo. In fiscal agony, one of these villainous tea producers attempted to swindle Sweet Leaf Tea. The details of this particular episode remain murky, but the result seems to have left the perpetrator paralyzed and smelling faintly of organic pure cane sugar. Waking from this apparently blissful state after three days, she immediately decided to surrender to her passionate new-found love of Peach Sweet Tea and join Sweet Leaf Tea in its quest to provide delicious and delightful teas to fans of liquid the world over. Perhaps even slightly too jubilant in her enthusiasm, she began phoning radio stations across the country to rave about the wide variety of scrumptious Sweet Leaf Tea flavors. Trying to make an example of her, a turncoat–and likely also attempting to trick consumers into purchasing their product with the similarity of the label–her former employer began offering a limited edition tea in bottles of an extremely small size which claimed to be made from the essence of her favorite grandmother. More news on this series of horrific events is still coming in as my press deadline approaches, but I will provide more information as soon as it becomes available. Suffice it to say that the circle of revenge never ends.-Diana
Diana Krueger Fan of Sweet Leaf Tea & winner of a new SLT t-shirt!
Granny Fans Share Engagement Pix with Sweet Leaf Tea
By April on Mar 26 Filed In Sweet Consumers 4 Comments
Back in January, we received the following note on our Facebook Fan Page from Mary Tran:
Mary Rose Tran: Hey, are y’all still available at Sam’s Club? I remember reading an article about it, but couldn’t find it at my local Sam’s. I’d like 300 bottles for my wedding please! 
I wrote her back letting her know where she could find Sweet Leaf Tea in bulk, which unfortunately was not at Sam’s Club. (If you’re curious, you can always buy us by the case at a 10 % discount from your local Whole Foods Market.) We talked a little back and forth and I let her know that we’d sell her some tea from our office at a discount if she let us Brand her wedding in some way.
She decided that it would be fun to have some of her engagement pictures taken at our office, on the roof with Granny as well has have some of our Limited Edition Mason Jars as center pieces at her reception. We whole-heartedly agreed and the pictures displayed here are from the Mary Tran Rich Lee SLT Engagement Photo Shoot Extravaganza! Feel free to check out more photos on our Fb Photo Page.
The awesomely-fun couple will be married in Austin on 7/11/2009.
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- Mary & Rich looking down on the world
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- Mary, me and Rich hanging out after photo shoot
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- Mary & Rich racing our SLT Vespa in front of our office
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- Mary and Rich whispering sweet nothings in Granny’s ear
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- Rich Lee and Mary Tran drunk on Sweet Leaf Tea
