The Stillroom

I’m going back in time to 1980 something.

My very first serious hobby of gathering what falls away at harvest time is what inspired The Stillroom Gift & Tea Shop.

Inspired once again to create something I haven’t done in ages, you will fall in love with my beautiful concoction of florals and spices and oils and wonder how does this magic even happen?

I’m starting out in small batches and will be cutting and sewing and aging fragrances in small crocks.

You’ll know it is there when you walk into The Stillroom space!

In production.

This has been quite a year for all of us. It’s all we can do to roll with the punches.

I think almost constantly about how I can make the shop better or fresh.

One of the conclusions I have come to is that over time it has become increasingly more difficult to get tea shipped from the west coast. Ugh!

Now, to the issue at hand. When I first started out as the local tea monger, (I prefer tea monger to tea lady btw) a gigantic box of tea, no matter how large, would ship for 20.00. Naturally, over time that has changed dramatically and without going into the gory details of small business ownership, ordering and shipping have become a bit of a nightmare. I was going to say hassle but it is a nightmare for such a teeny, weenie shop. (but 👏awesome).

So, with that, today I’m going to be working towards shifting my tea supplier to my favorite east coast family owned tea company.

I am not discontinuing our current brand just so you know.  Just expanding options for our tea connoisseur!

Can you guess which tea company this is?  I have carried limited flavors of their tea since I first opened the shop so it’s not too new to the tea clients we have.

I am looking forward to the addition! The shop will feature new flavors and the highest quality of tea because what else would you expect from Harney & Sons?

Because even in tough times we deserve small luxuries, no? Especially when they can be shared from a social distance and blanket us with some sort of comfort.

A different kind of hug altogether ❤️