Shop News
Apologies for my delay in keeping you all up to date. As some of you have already noticed, the shop in Maplewood is no longer open.
This was a decision arrived at somewhat spontaneously. I enjoyed the shop environment for the more leisurely pace of interacting and sometimes chatting with some of you for quite some time over a cup of tea.
Yet, economic realities had to be faced; and then, as I contemplated working at the Summer Farmers’ Markets again, I realized how much joy and vitality I experience interacting with you in that medium.
I remembered how inspired the name “Traveling Tea” and the teapot logo with its hobo bag, just “came to me”, almost unbidden…..and even the slogan “Sharing Good Times – Sharing Good Tea”. (”Traveling Tea”, not “Sitting in a Shop” Tea)
Though it was originally a teashop in Kansas City that generated the idea of a tea business in St. Louis for me, what I was “given” to create is something different.
Bringing tea to you, where you are in your lives and activities; to get quality tea on the menus at venues and events in the area where tea-lovers currently have limited choice. This is my mission. So tea lovers throughout the St. Louis area can truly enjoy healthy, tasty, properly brewed tea while they are sharing good times with friends and family.
Help me spread the word. Tell me where you want to see Traveling Tea. Tell the owners and managers of those places you want to be able to buy/drink Traveling Tea product there.
Together, we can take St. Louis beverage enjoyment to the next level!
Happy Summer 2010
I look forward to seeing you at the Markets
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“Traveling Tea”, “Sharing Good Times – Sharing Good Tea”, and the hobo bag red teapot logo are copyrighted by Nature’s Notions, LLC and Traveling Tea.
Tea Publicity!
There is nothing more exciting for a new business owner than getting unsolicited publicity. It sends a thrill of excitement through the veins; especially when friends notice it for you and share their congrats.
I can’t adequately convey what went through me Tuesday morning when several friends emailed to say they’d seen Traveling Tea mentioned in “The Daily Sauce” (see below). Unsolicited praise does a body good!
Thank you to those lovely, secretive shoppers from Sauce Magazine.
Tea to You
Kateri Meyer is a tea toddler and proud of it. Her new business, Traveling Tea, will have you sipping teas by the teapot. For years, she explains on her Web site, she wanted to see a good tea shop. Like all good entrepreneurs, she stopped talking and just did it. While you can taste her selection of mostly organic and fair-traded loose-leaf teas from India, China and Japan – to name just a few – Saturdays at the Tower Grove Farmers’ Market, Meyer wants to bring tea to you. Traveling Tea can provide fresh-brewed tea at any public event. How about an in-house tea party for a few of your best friends? What a fun way to learn about tea and sample new flavors. And the best part of all, no one will have to buy cookware, candles or wine.
Mothers Day Event
If you are looking for something new and different to celebrate this Mother’s Day – check us out. (Mothers welcomed, but not required)
Tea and Truffle Tasting Set for Mother’s Day
Mothers can enjoy delectable chocolates and special tea blends at a special event in their honor on Sunday, May 10.
Kakao Chocolate and Traveling Tea will host a special Tea and Chocolate Tasting on Mother’s Day at the new location of Kakao Chocolate, 2301 S. Jefferson, St. Louis, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Kakao will offer selections of all-natural, hand-dipped truffles in an assortment of tea flavors, including Chai Tea with Cinnamon, Earl Grey Tea with Orange Sugar, Mint Tea with Candied Lemon Peel, and Rose Petal Red Tea. Traveling Tea selections will include Earl Grey White Tip, “Meeting of the Mints,” Honey Rose, Chai and others.
Tea and Truffle pairings include two truffles and a cup of tea for $5, or three truffles and two cups of tea for $7. Individual and packaged truffles, as well as packaged tea, will be available for sale.