Combining tradition and science to create natural and effective remedies.
Solace, and its companion tea – Sanctuary – were born out of a particularly nasty flu that was one of the gifts the holiday season of 2018 gave to me. We’d been out of most of our useful for sick and pain teas when it began, and as I do Continue Reading →
“Into the Dark Woods” was inspired by one of those weird meme quiz name things. One of my mutuals on Twitter had posted one, commenting on how hers did not suit her in the slightest, and I took a look and cringed. Mine was something completely suiting to a witchy Continue Reading →
Mister Tea and I have an ideas file that is disturbingly long. Recently, we actually split it out into multiple files, to sort of… organize by idea type. Some of the time we come up with a name that we think would be spiffy, sometimes it is a flavour concept, Continue Reading →
Once we’d finally acquired Kukicha and created ‘Splinter’s Brew’ – we knew we had to make a tea for each turtle. This ended up focusing on personality and colour of mask. For Raphael we needed red, of course, and something that covered his snark and … angst issues. We crafted Continue Reading →
Once we’d gotten ‘Splinter’s Brew‘ sorted, we knew we had to make teas for the other turtles. Since making the teas based on pizza preferences seemed a little… weird, even for us, we decided to try to make the teas centered around colour, and in some cases, attitude. (I do Continue Reading →
One of the first tea name ideas we came up with was ‘Splinter’s Brew.‘ We knew we wanted it to be a green and kukicha, and were fairly certain we would end up making teas for the turtles as well. However, it took a couple of YEARS before I found Continue Reading →
The TMNT turtle teas were a fun project. We wanted to start with a foundation of ‘Splinter’s Brew‘ and then add things in the right colour ranges that would also taste good. For Michaelangelo’s tea, our options were slightly limited. Calendula tends to be more yellow than orange, and I Continue Reading →