Candy Cane Market fundraiser for PBWA Scholarship Fund

October 15, 2011 10:00am-4:00pm  will usher in the holiday shopping season at the Rock Hill Galleria Mall, in the old Goody's Space behind the Coca-Cola Play Area. 

This is the 2nd year for the Candy Cane Market, which is already becoming the premiere fundraising event for the Professional Business Women's Association of York County(SC)'s Scholarship Fund.  Each year the PBWA gives several ladies, either a high school senior in Fort Mill or Rock Hill, or a continuing student at a local college or university, a scholarship to help them further their education. 

The vendors and sponsors of the Candy Cane Market will present you with all your holiday shopping needs in one convenient place, there will be entertainment: children's dance schools, a martial arts demo, a women's singing trio.  Santa will be there, so you can get your photo of your child with Santa early tihs year!  You can further help the PBWA fundraising efforts thru buying a representative candy cane for $5. 

And to further spice things up, there will be giveaways: you can get a complimentary doorprize ticket when you purchase the candy cane if you want to enter the drawings.  Drawings will be held throughout the day for doorprizes ranging from gift baskets from various vendors to a Blackberry all the way up to a weekend stay in Charleston with a carriage ride! 

KTeas is a sponsor for the Candy Cane Market and will be one of the vendors, offering gifts of tea and tea-related items as well as chocolate through Dove Chocolate Discoveries -- Tea & Chocolate, hey!  Kathryn will also have a Creative Memories table at the Candy Cane Market where you can see some of the newest products, whether you're looking for gift possibilities or need to document your own holiday tea parties in your own albums!

So if you're local to the Charlotte, NC-Rock Hill, SC area, drop in on the Candy Cane Market and get into the festive spirit!

On Monday, 31 October 2011, KTeas will join WRHI, the City of Rock Hill, and other Community-Spirited Merchants to hold 2011's Boo-HaHa, the area's biggest Halloween Trick-or-Treating event for Rock Hill and York County youngsters.

Trick or Treat at Boo-HaHa in Rock Hill on 31 Oct 2011

Located on Main Street in Rock Hill, merchants will give out candy and prizes in a safe alternative to trick-or-treating.  There will be a costume contest for which you can register at the WRHI tent, hands-on activities for the kids, and Boo-HaHa will have something to entertain adults as well!

We'll send out more details as we have them, and you can always listen to WRHI AM 1340 / FM 94.3 or Interstate 107 to get details as well!

KTeas is taking part in a fun little Twitter raffle conducted by @FoodBlogTeaShow.  Here's how you enter:
Tweet this phrase:

@FoodBlogTeaShow's Twitter Raffle: http://tinyurl.com/teashowraffle #teashowrafflenow

(easiest way: copy & paste it into your own tweet) and get someone to Re-Tweet your tweet!  When @FoodBlogTeaShow sees that someone re-tweeted your tweet of that phrase, they will tweet you a photo of your raffle number.  (Limit of 3 per day.)

On their final 2011 episode of The Tea Show, they'll draw the winning number.  The winner gets the prize, which seems to be growing all the time.  KTeas has contributed products to it, but we're not the only ones. So check it out!  Enter!

There are two ways that Death In Dixie, the 2nd installment of The Traveling Tea Ladies by Melanie O'Hara-Salyers, make the perfect October Fall reading!

(1) It takes place during the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN!  This year, the 39th annual National Storytelling Festival takes place October 7-9 in Jonesborough.  As much as we love Storytelling, we won't be there either as KTeas or as ourselves.  So we appreciate the chance to travel there a little bit via the pages of Death In Dixie!

(2)  Ghost stories are central to this mystery!  We love ghost stories, but we realized when reading Death In Dixie that somehow through life, we haven't collected our own favorite ghost stories, we missed out on the ghost stories around the camp fire while toasting marshmallows!  So we're looking for your favorite ghost stories.  We'll hold a Facebook drawing and it'll work like this:

"Like" our KTeas Facebook Page if you haven't already so it'll be easy to notify you if you're the winner.  Go to the Discussions page and post your ghost story in the "Ghost Stories! What's your Favorite?" topic.  That will enter you in a drawing to be held on October 21 so that you can email us your mailing address if you're not already a customer through our website (in which case we'll already have your snail-mail address) & we can send you the book in hopes that you can read it by Halloween!

Boo-waaaahaahaahaha!
 

Come to The Shoppes At River's Edge indoor marketplace on Saturday, 22 October 2011, to meet Kathi Pingley Gaddy, author of Do Snakes Wear Shoes?  The Shoppes' hours on Saturday are 10:00am to 5:00pm.  Many of The Shoppes' merchants will be turning out all day to celebrate Kathi Gaddy's visit, KTeas among them.

KTeas will be at the Young's Garden Center Gift Shop for their Fall Open House on Saturday, 01 October 2011 from 10:00am to 3:00pm.  We'll offer samples of a few of our teas and be happy to answer any questions about our products available in the Young's Gift Shop. . . . We're also looking forward to our first time to participate in the Young's Christmas invitation-only after-hours on the evening of October 20! Sounds delightful: candlelight, music, good company . . . ! Let us know if you're local and would like to receive an invitation when we're given ours.  We don't know yet how many we'll get, but we'll do our best!

Miss Libby's Tea Parties will be celebrating the author visit at The Shoppes on 22 Oct. 2011, along with many other Shoppes merchants.

Remember: Miss Libby's Tea Parties, found at Celebration Cottage on Ebenezer Rd. for the last two years, relocated to join KTeas at The Shoppes At River's Edge! Celebration Cottage on Ebenezer Rd. closed as of Aug. 31, but find Celebration Cottage for teens at  Palmetto Hills Paintball on Hwy 21 just past Catawba Baptist Church!