#365Inks – Jinhao EF – Diamine Festive Joy
Fire in the Sky (Organic Smoky Elderberry Herbal Chai)
I love the tea of the month club. This is a thing that is likely painfully clear if you’ve been with me on this tea journey for any length of time. I love curating the selections, I love all the ideas that have been inspired by the surveys, I love Continue Reading →
Sorry I Stabbed You… …Again (Organic Earl Grey, Red Rooibos, Lavender, and Hibiscus) (3-150a)
The story of Sorry I Stabbed You… …Again is deeply connected to the stories of Sorry I Stabbed You and Rise Up. In fact, much of its story has already been told as a part of the explanation for Rise Up. Tea Naming conversations, wherever they end up happening, often Continue Reading →
The Monthly Brew – June 2023 (Recap)
June was a hectic month. The deadline for retrieving bits of life from previous domicile was set for the first of July, and no part of that process has been without complication. However, complications aside, the work and play of tea did continue. June saw more tea naming posts, as Continue Reading →
#365Inks – Kaweco Medium – Diamine Black Ivy
Baker Street Blend (Organic Black Tea Blend)
Baker Street was the first tea that I blended because I needed it to blend another tea. A friend and tea human sent me a sample of a tea that she wanted to see if I could create a “my way” version of. The theory being that if the original Continue Reading →
Lost in the Mists (Chocolate Lavender Earl Grey)
May was a hectic month. The first week of it was the last one leading up to the soft reopen, and I realized, as I was coming down to the wire, that I had greatly underestimated how long it would take to get that first short list of teas Continue Reading →
Shipping, Packaging, Suggestions, and Angst
I’ve been trying to approach this post since I re-revamped the Tea of the Month Club. It was sparked, in part, by the things I discovered about domestic shipping costs and weight sets – a term I am coining because I am not sure what else to call it. Continue Reading →
#365Inks – Platinum 05 – Colorverse Rainy Day
Missing Piece (7-310) (Organic Decaffeinated Genmaicha)
The tale of the tea known as Missing Piece is almost too short to tell. However, I have made a habit of these tea introduction posts, and it would feel wrong to leave one out. The need for Missing Piece was an outgrowth of my desire to make a decaffeinated Continue Reading →