Combining tradition and science to create natural and effective remedies.
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 →
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 →
Tea was a regular part of my life long before I started making it, and there had been a handful of regulars stocked in the pantry. Once I started making my own tea, I created more personalized versions of the things that had been standard. Meditation Mint was a special Continue Reading →
There are times when the story of a tea is long and involved and other times when it is short, sweet, and mostly about a flavour idea popping into my mind basically fully formed. When Baker Street Blend was first named and the concept of the Tea Series first appeared, Continue Reading →