The Stillroom

It has been a long time since I have updated the status of The Stillroom Gift & Tea Shop for my online followers as well as those of you who stumble on to the page.

I have had so much to write, yet nothing. How can that be? It just was. There was a life transition taking place and it was time to make a new plan so I closed the tea shop for a minute. I closed the shop in my new/old town and moved everything to my old/new town.

My path was like a Family Circle cartoon where they tracked the characters movements with spirograph – like patterns. Remember those?

After never leaving the state of Pennsylvania until I was twenty one, I moved to Oregon and was there for a bit, then back to Pennsylvania for a bit, then to Baltimore for a bit, back to Pennsylvania for a bit then back to Baltimore, this time for ten years, and then back to Pennsylvania, to stay.

Once in Pennsylvania, I lived in Bethel Park and my hometown of Natrona Heights. While there I lived in a house (that I lived in as a child) that was and still might be haunted. After a two year stint there, we purchased a home of our own in the same area. After six years there, I became restless, again but not to move. I needed to do something with my entrepreneurial spirit so I opened a business right on the border of Allegheny County and Butler County. I’m not kidding. The building was actually split down the middle. Seven percent sales tax if the register was on the Allegheny County side, six percent on the Butler side. What started out as a gift shop eventually blew up in to a full fledged tea shop. But again, that restless spirit started to creep back in to my life and I thought it was time to make another move. Yep, we did it again and moved the household and the business to the historic village of Saxonburg, PA, where the shop flourished over the twelve years that I was there. I likened it to doing business in the middle of a cornfield. Not super busy but anyone that liked tea found me, and that was good enough.

The shop stayed in that location for twelve years before deciding to move on one more time. We packed up and I moved the shop to a new location, further south of Butler into Allegheny County, just north of the city to Tarentum.

Yes, I did say my new location. As life changes one must change with it. The house grew to be too big and suddenly Saxonburg seemed too far away from many things we enjoyed. (One being our son who now lives in the city). Not letting anymore grass grow under my feet, we picked up for the last time and moved the house back to my old hometown of Natrona Heights and my shop relocated to Tarentum.

The Stillroom Gift & Tea shop is now located at 311 East 6th Avenue in Tarentum inside of Diamond Antiques, which is the old Van Sciver building. With over 20 vendors participating, Diamond is a gem of a store (no pun intended) with plenty of things to see and explore all under one roof!

The Stillroom offers up a great variety of Stash teas with Harney & Sons loose teas rounding out the selection. Tea accessories are available including a small but unique selection of antiques, collectibles and new giftware too. There is a fun selection of cool cards and tea wallets and cat toys and Devlin frames and much more.

To contact the Diamond Antique Store call 724-224-4687 and to contact me, Vicki dial up 412-721-6357 or go to http://www.stillroomgifts.com.