How Do You Like Your Tea?

Silly question:

Are you bad at math?

No, I'm actually really good at math, to my own surprise.

I have always hated numbers until they had to be incorporated into my business (pricing, costs, investments, income, salaries, etc). Maybe that's why I'm good at math after all.

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West c. October 1928

The shade you be throwing at Alice, Mike, and Augustus on here and the way you be responding to your dad in the comments be KILLING MEEEE LMFAO YALL FUNNY AF 😭😭😭😭

And when mad hatter was yelling at you and Edward through your asks and you were like "oh..." I died. And Some girl said you get her wet and your dad said he hope they ain't a minor, please come get your dad. It's the chaos for me 💀💀💀

You know what they say, if you don't like my shade then step out of my shadow. That Alice is something, though. A drunk. Hmph.

As for my dad, unfortunately there isn't much I can do to deter his behavior.

But why not just follow us? I want to be followed dammit -pouts- >:3

Because if I follow you now then I run the risk of not liking you later, for whatever reason. And if I decide that I don't care for you later then I'll have to unfollow you. The much easier fix is to just not follow at all.

And don't worry, it's not just you or anything I have against you. I just don't follow anyone back cause people aren't my thing.

Skeleton waffles

MILLENNIALS, GEN Z, I’d like to make a proposal; if you were raised (more like razed lol) by Boomers/Gen X, it’s pretty obvious by now that MOST OF OUR PARENTS SUCKED ASS. They were jerks, and they did nothing but mock and criticize us 24/7. We need to take a stand and break that cycle. And we can do this by Radically and Unconditionally Loving generation Alpha. We will be everything our parents weren’t: patient, compassionate, present, and affectionate. We’ll make sure they never have the inner void that eats us everyday.

Just to clean me brain up because I definitely lost the red string:

What did happen for ppl to assume u and tis lady dating

They think we're dating because we chat and cook together often, but it's really not that big of a deal. The teasing will die down eventually.

Good morning, early birds! And if you're not an early bird then that must make you a night owl. Either way, good morning and good afternoon and evening to all!

I wanna show you guys some behind the scenes things around the factory, one of my personal favorite festive rooms!

Let's take a peek inside the Winter Wonderland room, shall we? This is where myself and the Oompa Loompas have our winter parties and Secret Santa giveaways!

~WINTER WONDERLAND~

This beautiful area completely changes in decor every month with transformations in amazing landscaping, water features, suspended decor from the ceiling and awe-inspiring scenes throughout. But during the holiday season is when I believe it becomes the most gorgeous. With the large glass dome atop the area, you get fantastic scenery sightings inside during the day and the area is provided with wonderful lighting for nighttime viewing as well. Because we all know that nighttime is when everything beautiful sparkles. ✨

This 8 foot long train travels around the huge Christmas tree and is surrounded by hundreds of multi-colored Poinsettias. In one of the train cars, a digital camera faces forward and can see what the train sees as it travels around the track on a nearby television monitor! One of my trusty tech Oompa Loompas thought the camera would be a magnificent addition and I couldn't agree more! Isn't that genius?

Every month, you'll have a different theme from huge flower pots and fields of daisies during the spring to an amazing Asian theme during the Chinese New Year. Any time you are fortunate enough to stop by the factory, should Covid ever go away, you will be astounded at the beauty and creativity of this unique attraction! Let's not forget the beautiful rocking horse to the left, that does indeed work! Also, this is one of our tallest Christmas trees in the factory, although it may not look tall on camera, it's actually standing close to 24 feet! That's like six Oompa Loompas stacked on top of each other, ha.

These are leafless white Christmas trees, added decor to balance out the color scheme. We were going for a snowy and colorfully-bright Santa's Workshop North Pole theme. Though half of the Oompa Loompas wanted the theme to be Polar Express, with nothing but faux snow made from powdered sugar, elves and trains everywhere. But who knows? Maybe this year we'll vote again on themes or infuse the two!

This cute Polar bear is a remote controlled animatronic that was designed specifically for the Oompa Loompas to ride around the factory on. One of their most adorable ideas to date, in my opinion.

And what would a factory be without reindeer? This is a favorite statue of mine, it was a Rudolph model but unfortunately the glowing red nose had to be removed due to overheating, which started a small fire.

Oversized ornaments for an oversized tree, nothing more.

Ah, the Nutcracker! Yes, I almost forgot. This design was requested by Santa himself (yes, Santa is real, do NOT debate me) as he and Mrs. Clause love to visit the factory during Christmas time and feast with us. It's a joyous time, really. And we make sure to put it out for them every year.

~•••~

And that, people, brings us to the end of our little virtual tour! Unless I forgot something? Nope, I don't think I did. I hope you enjoyed! I must say, this has to be one of the most fun and cozy places in the factory, mostly because we spend so much time changing and decorating it throughout the year! And Christmas happens to be my favorite time of the year. Should I ever open my factory to the public again it's definitely one of the rooms I'll include in the next tour! Maybe I'll even do a Christmas tour and show off all the beautiful decorations in the factory.

But til then, see ya on the flip side!

- Willy Wonka 🍫

✧* Vintage Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker ✧*