Hello love bugs,
Hope you're all having a lovely start to the week.
A few things:
1. TOUR, TOUR, TOUR! (you're meant to sing this in your heads to the tune of "Girls, girls, girls.")
BUT YES. I am going on tour in October!! Coming to meet and see all you nerds! The most important thing is this won't be some hour-long talk where I bore you to death. I'd LOVE to do something fun - which is why I keep asking for your ideas. I have my own, and I've got some funny ones, but it's really important to me that everyone has a good time.
When this was in its initial planning stages, I told the tour company I'm honestly horrible at public speaking (I get bored and nervous haha), but I am a former theatre kid, so goofiness, I can absolutely do.
Breakdancing? I can do that for you all. Bit of the characters I do in videos? Not sure how I can execute it, but I will TRY. Want to see a bunch of old, horrendous photos of teenage Syd? LFG. (I might even show you all the ones of me in actual headgear lmao).
ANYWAY! Come see me. I am pumped to meet you all. Tickets here: www.x1entertainment.com/sydneywatson
(also - fun fact, this is part of the reason I wanted to let you all know about my vertigo/deafness, because I was worried if I faint or something, you'll think I'm dying haha. And, also, if I turn my head to hear you better when you speak to me, I didn't want anyone thinking I was being strange)
2. The last of the pre-order tea shipments are heading to the post office today. I've said it about 50 times by now, but genuinely thank you all for being patient. There's nothing worse than getting angry emails and feeling so bad, but having no ability to rush the process along. So, thank you, thank you, thank you!
The good news too now is that all these teas are simply in stock. So, no waiting period now. :)
Tea here if you'd like to try!: lyonsteaexchange.com/
3. Last thing - are you lot alright with how much I've been uploading? I know that's a weird question, but, I always get nervous I'm going to overload everyone with content and you're going to be like, SYDNEY NO MORE.
I have a bunch of ideas, and I've always wanted to upload 2x a month, but just never had the time (in my personal life) to do so. Because - and it's hilarious to me that people think I have a team of people - it's still just me doing everything, all these years later (except for my lovely thumbnail man, Giancarlo).
So, just wanted to make sure we're cool, you're enjoying the uploads.
Anyway, my nerd children. No thirst trap. Only tour flier, today :P.
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Hello flower children,
I hope you're all doing well!
I've been making an attempt to upload every Sundee, but I have a giant head cold right now and sound like a prepubescent teenage boy. As such, new video tomorrow!
I've taken a lot of medication in an effort to sound like a human being, but don't bully me if I still sound insanely congested haha.
To quote basically everyone around me right now, "wow, you sound terrible" 😂
Being sick also means I'm probably gonna post a few videos that I've been working on in quick succession, so, enjoy a Sydney-filled week. :')
To my tea babies:
Biggest thank you for all your patience on the new blends. I know pre-sales are a pain because of the open-ended waiting time. In truth, I've had a handful of issues pop up with this batch that had to be fixed, and that added more time to the manufacturing process. I promise, from here, I won't do any more pre-sales. I'll just pop everything straight on the site once I get it.
So, that's some good news! The three winter flavours I ran last year - Bourbon Barrel Chai, Peppermint White Choc and Apple Cider - will be back in a few months and they'll be immediately available to buy.
I spoke to my tea man this morning, and we're basically on track now. I'm trying to nail down when he's shipping to me, so I can start shipping to all of you - it looks like about 10 days. I'm going to bully him a bit to see if I can shorten that (sorry tea man!). I am so sorry for how long this has taken. I always think things will be fine, and then something stupid happens and pushes everything out. As is the way of manufacturing!
Also - I beg of you to check your spam folders when you email me at LTE!! I do not ignore you lot, I email back as soon as I can! If it seems like I didn't email back, please check spam/promo folders. :)
Nothing else to report, kids. Once again, I'm SO SORRY for the delay in these tea orders. No more pre-sales from here. Lesson learned. :P
In the meantime, here is a photo where I definitely didn't feel as gross and sick as I do right now lmao.
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Hi wonderful people,
Hope everyone's feeling happier now that the election is over (I know most of you probably feel like I do about it, the fallout has been VERY weird to watch over the last few days).
Anyway, I'm sorry to keep harping on about this, but I wanted to remind you all that today and tomorrow (Nov 10th) will be the "Christmas cut off" dates for my ugly knitted Christmas sweaters. If you'd like one to traumatise everyone around you this holiday season, best to get your orders in today and tomorrow. :-)
They will still be available on my site, of course, you can still get them AFTER Nov 10th, but I can't guarantee delivery before Christmas. You can still get all the Hell Gondola items + the ugly Christmas sweater SCREEN PRINTS on my site. The shipping cut-off for those is late Nov!
Knitted sweaters here: www.sydneywatson.com/merch
Lastly - to my tea babies - ALL THE WINTER TEA IS IN STOCK FINALLY! I spent yesterday unloading pallets and even got a few orders out the door too. My entire packing room smells so good right now. So, to all my pre-order children: I'm so sorry that this wait has gotten so long. All the original "delivery" dates I was given went out the window with the hurricanes.
However, I'm packing orders this weekend. And will be dropping them to the post office on Tuesday (Monday is Veteran's Day). As much as I love the smell of tea, I would really like my house back, so consider buying a box, or gifting someone one of my Keepsake Gift boxes for Christmas. Help a sister out aha.
Tea and gift boxes: lyonsteaexchange.com/
Aussies/Canadians/Brits/to my other international dwelling creatures: I've finally nailed down some personalized shipping rates through FedEx. I'm actually curious what kind of shipping rates you all expect to your countries? Give me a vibe of what's normal. For example, Aussies, is $25 - 35 normal to you? Canadians, is $16 - $20?
Pls weigh in for me. I promise there's a good reason I ask.
Okay, I'm shutting up now. In the meantime, here's a photo I took the other night at dinner. Because we don't smile in the thirst traps, ever.
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Hello all,
Hope everyone is doing well, especially all my Americans who are probably nervously waiting to vote in the election on Tuesday!
I wanted to drop a little note here (I'll probably say so again next week) that if you're looking to get one of my knitted Christmas sweaters, the Christmas delivery cutoff is November 10th - which I know is SO CLOSE and SO EARLY.
You're welcome to continue purchasing them after the 10th, but we just can't say for absolute certainty that they'll arrive before Christmas if so. (so, regular Christmas uncertainty :P)
The normal screenprints and embroidered items will be available throughout November - the cutoff for those is a lot later.
I just wanted to say something here to make sure nobody who wants one misses out. :')
Get your knitted sweaters here: www.sydneywatson.com/merch
New video coming tomorrow. I'm suffering from allergies right now and my eyeballs look like I'm in the final stages of transforming into an actual vampire. (anyone else get insanely itchy eyes around this time of year?!)
In the meantime, here is yet another photo of the "Drink Eggnog, Fight Commies" knitted jumper because I haven't yet taken any photos in the other two.
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Hi all,
Hope you're all having a wonderful weekend (or Monday, for my Aussies/Kiwis/anyone on the other side of the planet).
I've been doing my best to upload once a week, or as regularly as possible, but the last two weeks have been busy, so I kinda fell off the map.
Putting a video together now for tomorrow that is a bit of a personal one, but something I've been noodling on saying for a while. So, looking forward to everyone's feedback.
Wanted to also let y'all know that I *finally* made some Hell Gondola tees/hoodies etc (picture attached ;D). You guys know how much I hate screen printing, so these little guys are EMBROIDERED, and I added some embroidered text on the sleeves that say, "all aboard the hell gondola".
I also made hoodies, baseball caps, beanies and I'll add some stickers this week!
EVERYTHING IS EMBROIDERED! I hope they last FOREVER.
I ALSO went ahead and put together KNITTED ugly Christmas sweaters (I told y'all I was gon' do it. Here we are). We turned three best-sellers from previous years into knitted options. And, I'll tell you now, I was genuinely surprised by the quality and how nice/soft they feel.
The ugly sweaters are:
"Drink Eggnog, Fight Commies"
"Shooty Sticks, the only gift I need"
and "It's beginning to look a lot like f*ck this"
I love them all. They turned out so cute. AND, they'll be adorable for Christmas. But, please be mindful: if you order one of these and you want it BEFORE Christmas, the cut-off shipping dates are November 10th, for regular post!
LASTLY - to my tea babies: the wooden gift boxes are FINALLY here. I will begin sending them out starting Monday. The winter flavours had a minor delay due to Hurricane Helene, as one of my suppliers is in NC. But, I'm expecting them within the next week or so. Very exciting :)
Sorry this is one big post about new items to buy, but I genuinely love putting together fun merch and what not for you. I'm trying hard to pursue quality with the tops/hoodies etc, because I care a lot about things lasting and I realize how bloody expensive everything is right now.
Anyway, you can find new merch here: www.sydneywatson.com/merch
You can, of course, find my tea here (please buy the wooden gift boxes so I can have my dining room back lmao): lyonsteaexchange.com/
In the meantime, like I said, here is a photo of the new Hell Gondola tee!! (mine is missing the text on the arm)
The third image is the knitted "Drink Eggnog, Fight Commies" ugly sweater :)
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Hi all,
Hope you're having a fabulous weekend so far.
My newest video, about Raygun, was blocked from YouTube because the Olympics was able to copyright about 15 seconds of footage (that's covered under fair use, but whatever). As such, the entire video has been blocked/restricted.
I truthfully don't really know what to do in these situations, given I can either delete and reupload the video, or I can remove the "offending" footage. In this case, due to the fact that I'm sure most of you won't want to rewatch that video, I opted to delete the footage and hope they leave me alone haha. That said, I may reupload if issues keep arising! It means that one part of the video is a bit wonky now, but there's not much I can do about that unfortunately. :(
I think it's really interesting just HOW HARD the Olympics team has gone trying to get videos of Raygun deleted from the Internet. Basically, any event at the Olympics that resulted in massive pushback has been erased online. Which is psychotic.
Anyway, just wanted to let you all know. I didn't delete the video. I didn't take it down. YouTube did. Over 15 seconds. Of Fair Use covered footage. Amazing.
Wanted to also thank everyone for all the love on the newest Lyons Tea Exchange flavours and gift box! To reiterate: these flavours are limited edition and will only be around for the holiday/Christmas season! So give 'em a whirl while they're here :D.
The gift box, I'd love to have as a mainstay, so I'm probably going to harp on about it a lot aha. I'm really proud of how it has turned out and I'm hoping it'll suit a bunch of you to be given as a Christmas gift! (Which I know is hard to think about this far out, but ya girl has lead times to contend with!)
Check it all out here and grab yourself some tea and prep for Christmas: lyonsteaexchange.com/
Anyway! That is all for now kids. New video tomorrow, hopefully. I'm going to continue my fight with YouTube and hopefully get my Raygun video back. Otherwise, please forgive me if I have to roll with a reupload.
In the meantime, here's a nice throwback photo because I haven't taken any new ones in a while. :D
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Hi all,
Hope you're doing well.
New video hopefully coming tomorrow. There's so much happening in the news and I'm assuming we're all equally overwhelmed.
More than usual, I feel like everyone has lost their minds. It's a little disheartening and I'm finding myself feeling a bit weird about the world right now. Not sure if you all feel the same? Maybe I'm too much of a negative nancy. :')
In the world of GOOD NEWS, however:
I wanted to let you know too that there are FINALLY three new, limited edition flavours available on the Lyons Tea Exchange website! AND an American-made wooden gift box! (I know a bunch of you use my shipper boxes as gift boxes, but now there is an ACTUAL GIFT BOX you can give instead haha)
I know I traumatized some of you with my very first LTE pre-sale launch (I'm so sorry, I promise I learned so much from that and I will not be a dummy again!), but this time, I'm now ready to stomp on any problems before they arise.
SO!
The winter flavours are Peppermint White Chocolate, Apple Cider Rooibos and Bourbon Barrel Chai (thanks to you guys voting!!) All of them are so, so good.
I thought it was best to make these available now, although they won't be out for a little while, because I wanted you all to be able to add them to the new LTE Keepsake Gift Box!
The gift box is USA made. I partnered with a company who actually plants trees for orders placed (which is a big deal to me). The box is actual wood, it's nice and heavy, and I made it so you can take out the little tea dividers and use it for whatever you see fit! (if you look at the images on the site, this will make more sense)
It's come out super beautiful and every single friend/family member of mine who has seen it in person is like, "yes. this pretty. we keep". I genuinely think it'll make a beautiful gift and I want whoever has one to be like, "wow, yes, I feel proud to have this in my house."
So, check out everything here:
Gift box: lyonsteaexchange.com/products/lyons-tea-exchange-k…
Peppermint White Choc: lyonsteaexchange.com/products/peppermint-white-cho…
Apple Cider Rooibos: lyonsteaexchange.com/products/apple-cider-rooibos
Bourbon Barrel Chai: lyonsteaexchange.com/products/bourbon-barrel-chai
This time, I will keep you all very updated as your orders progress, so keep your eye out for my emails. I know it's so hard to think about sweater weather flavours in summer, but they will be so delicious as it cools off.
As always, I can't thank you all enough for your beautiful comments and feedback (even the constructive bits). I also am so grateful for the support. This business is absolutely my baby and I'm so happy so many of you have given it a chance.
I've attached some photos of the new boxes because I think the imagery turned out so frickin' cute. So, enjoy :P
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Hi all!
Hope you're doing well.
New video coming in the next few days. I am furiously editing :P
But, I really would LOVE your input about a few new things I've got coming down the pipeline with Lyons Tea Exchange.
First, NEW FLAVOURS!
I've got two new flavours dropping as we get into the colder months this year. They're so good and will be perfect for sweater weather. I'll tell you more about them as get everything finalized. But they're on the way!
BUT, I'm still choosing a third flavour and I'd like your thoughts. A bunch of you have emailed me with flavour requests, so I'm putting those back to all of you + a few options I think are great.
Pick the one from the list below that, just based on the name, you'd like to try.
(I like them all, so I'm no help)
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Hi all,
Hope you're doing splendidly.
I am once again apologizing for going AWOL for another 3 weeks hehe. I promise I'm not returning to posting once a month. But, like I mentioned, my mama was visiting from Australia and she's my priority (she's gone now and I'm very sad).
I also moved! And, for those of you who've done that recently too, you know how time consuming and psycho it is. I actually didn't realize how much crap I'd accumulated until it was time to start putting it all into boxes.
So, with the move in mind, you'll have to forgive the set up while I work out where I want things. I'd like to deck my new office out, but I have no idea what to do with it and my new studio layout. Green screen maybe? Open to suggestions.
I'm working to get a video finished for you for today, but it might be up tomorrow, more realistically. Then I'm returning to uploading as frequently as my little hands can edit videos together!
Lastly, and maybe most importantly - ya girl just aged up and had a birthmas. ;D So, in celebration of officially hitting the wall, I've popped together a 10% off discount code for Lyons Tea Exchange. Because all I want for my birthday is to pack tea orders for you all. (that's not a joke, I genuinely enjoy it)
As you guys know, there's no lazy drop-shipping crap here. Everything is put together and sourced by yours truly, because I CARE.
Anyway, you can use code THEWALL for 10% off your order. Five days only. :D
(Also, to my Canadians and Aussies, I'm working to get y'all better shipping rates. I appreciate so much that so many of you continue to place orders despite how much the shipping can be. I know the pain.)
Nothing else to report, children. Just casually melting in the Texas heat.
In the meantime, here's a photo from a thing I went to last summer that highlights how pale I am and will always be.
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Hi all,
Hope you're doing well and are looking forward to le weekend!
A few things to update/ask you all about:
Firstly, I'm sorry for the lack of video this last week!
I've been trying to upload weekly so there's some consistency to this channel again. But, the end of this month got a little disrupted because my mum has been visiting from Australia (woo, yay for mums!)
The video I had planned for today will likely be live tomorrow, given we've been having insane weather here for the last few days and my Internet/electricity has been going out. Makes it a little hard to post. ;)
That said, if you guys have any video ideas, let me know. I'm endlessly collecting them :P.
Secondly, I want to drop a bunch of ugly Christmas sweaters again this year (or, I can drop again the ones you guys liked best from previous years). However, I'd like to make actual knitted ones that will last.
Is that something you guys would like? It's something I want to do because I want everything to be high quality, but I wanted to gauge interest because doing it this way requires me ordering and holding stock. Full disclosure too - they'll also come at a higher price point for obvious reasons.
I'm asking now only so I can get prepped - not because I'm a weirdo who thinks about Christmas in June (kidding, I think about Christmas all year round).
Lastly, I made a little Father's Day bundle on the Lyons Tea Exchange website, in case you wanted to get your daddos some tea for the big day. Biggest thank you for all the love and support with this little business. Means so, so much to me. And I get a lot of joy out of putting your orders together and reading the little notes you leave me.
You can check it out here: lyonsteaexchange.com/
Anyway, children of the corn, looking forward to getting this next video out to you tomorrow. I think you'll enjoy it ;D.
In the meantime, here is a photo I took the other week because I liked the jumper I was wearing.
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