Combining tradition and science to create natural and effective remedies.
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 →
August was rough. One of the reasons for that was the interminability of this particular summer, especially given the impossible and (for the most part) terrible weather that has been occurring in so many places. So far, we’ve gotten off light, here in Albuquerque. One of the others was finding Continue Reading →
The Monster Slayer line was born out of the mergence of a handful of things. The first was my tendency to respond to a certain subset of thoughts and needs and problems with “I could make a tea for that.” The second was that a friend had a caffeine problem. Continue Reading →
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 →
My notes for where this tea came from are irritatingly sparse. I know it happened in late 2020 – which, admittedly, makes it at least a little understandable that the details may have gotten lost in the ether. I have the name of a tea person. A suggested name for Continue Reading →
As it turns out, my worries back in March that I had set too ambitious a goal for the Soft Reopen were true. This does not change the fact that May ended up feeling rather glorious. Short version of May: I reopened the shop, there were some proper tea reintroductions, Continue Reading →
This tea was created because when I am stressed I fall back on the comfortable things as far as taste and texture and sound and… not an uncommon thing, but there are certain pitches the whirring in my brain manages when I start to get overwhelmed that are akin to Continue Reading →
At some point in May of 2019, a realization struck. I had many chais, but despite the intersection of a love of chai and a fondness for Earl Grey, I hadn’t combined the two. I dug through the tea journals. I went through the piles of tea ideas that hadn’t Continue Reading →
Gift of the Gloaming’s story began, as many of the tales of my teas do, with a combination of desire and need. I wanted a comforting tea taste, in this case one specifically involving smoke – but I also very desperately needed to relax. As Into the Dark Woods combined Continue Reading →