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The standard tea of the month selection for January 2025 was threefold. The first two choices centered around my thought that we’d need something with a little kick for the aftermath of it. The third was chosen because I realized that not all of my Continue Reading →
The seeds for the concept of Gnomevember were found within the creativity and heart of a friend. She sent me gnomes. Which led to sudden world-building thoughts on my side, and sparked a micro-fiction, which I shared in return. The next thing I knew, she was asking me if I Continue Reading →
Pillow Fort was born in frustration, but its creation was the salve to that frustration. Everyone who creates, whether it be tea or physical art or digital art or worlds or poetry or… has had the experience, probably more than once, of someone acting as if they, the creator, has Continue Reading →
Some tea series have specific (and often long) stories for each of the teas made with the initial foundational blend. So far, the Monster Slayer series does not function like that. The primary reason for this is that so many flavour options spun out of the initial conversations that they Continue Reading →
This tea’s story starts, as so many do, with a tea preferences survey. That single survey spawned many tea ideas, quite a few of them foundational blends. The timing was perfect, as the survey appeared shortly before I started work on figuring out what the tea for July 2023’s Tea Continue Reading →
Joy to the world The gnomes have come And they will bring you tea Let every hearth Prepare them room Let kettle and teapot sing Let kettle and teapot sing Let kettle, let kettle and teapot sing Joy to the earth The gnomes remain Let their tales resound While fields Continue Reading →
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (or so it feels now) – someone I cared deeply for asked me for a tea that had smoke and cinnamon, but not vanilla. I jury-rigged a test, which went into a fascinating tea object that stayed at the old Continue Reading →
The story of Wednesday’s Child begins with a mood board. A friend has been on a stash-busting kick, and said over-arching project has produced many awesome things. The gnomes that are heading out over the of the week are one, and the scarf that the mood board was created for Continue Reading →