Merry Christmas!

We want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas! As we celebrate the birth of Jesus, our prayer is that you will know the true JOY that only comes from the Lord. May your Christmas be a special one, and may God bless each of you with a holiday filled with love and happy memories.

Merry Christmas from Two Tea Girls!

Celebrate Tea!

Celebrate the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party (Dec. 16, 1773) and find sanctuary from your daily routine with a warm, cozy cup of tea!

The weather outside is frightful - where we live anyway! Snow, ice and freezing rain have made this the perfect weekend to stay inside and enjoy our teas!

We just wanted to give you a little update on our website. We have been experiencing several little gliches and appreciate your patience while we work through these little growing pains. Our e-mail has not been working properly and we apologize to any of you who have been trying to reach us. We have found the problem and it is now in working order; however, any e-mails sent to us prior to 12/15 were not received. Please send them again and we will get back to you right away! Sorry for the inconvenience.

We would love to help you take care of all of those last minute gifts. We have lots of unique gift ideas - so check us out!

We Did It!!!!!!!!

The website has launched! A great big hug for our web designer Aaron! He is so awesome and we are so excited! We still have much to learn as we journey into our new venture, but we have taken the first big step!

Check out the best tea - any of the 22 flavors - at www.steepedinstyleteas.com! We have so many adorable things available and we can't wait for you to check them all out for yourself!

Thanks to all of our family and friends for your love and support as we begin our new business!

Tea is best when shared with a friend - so please pass our website on to all your friends - they will be glad you did!

Here's to a new beginning! ~ Two Tea Girls

Ready for Take Off!

The debut of our website is finally here! We have worked very hard and prayed even harder for this day to come! Now we are only hours away from launching our new business on the web!

We had a great time at the Christmas Expo tonight and met so many wonderful "girlfriends"! We heard so many great comments about our products and everyone raved about the Strawberry Spice tea we had for sampling! We think our teas are great and that our inventory is unique and oh so adorable, but it's nice to hear other people respond to it in the same way! Thanks to all the ladies who stopped by!

Well, the table is set - LET'S DO TEA!

Almost Ready for Launch

The website is almost ready! We are so excited and overwhelmed with all the details that need our last minute attention. We want everything to be perfect when www.steepedinstyleteas.com makes its debut, so our web designer Aaron needs a medal for his patience in dealing with two tea girls who want it "just so-so"! Bless his little heart!

Our inventory continues to arrive and let me tell you that today the UPS man brought the most adorable watches and keychains that you have ever seen in your whole life! I personally want one of each! They have personality, bling and pizzaz beyond your wildest imagination! You will have to look for them to appear in the frills category very soon!

We are also excited about next Monday - December 10! You can come and meet us in person and buy our products cash and carry! We will be at the Christmas expo at Impressions Salon and Day Spa on Union Road in Englewood, Ohio from 5 - 9 pm. Perfect for Christmas gifts still on your list - so plan to stop by! We will have our gourmet teas, tea accessories and plenty of frills on hand!

Well, time for a cup of Evening Escape - another one of our 22 tea flavors! Toodles ~ Amy

Website Update

It has been a while since we have posted anything. We are still trying to get the hang of this "blog" thing. Our teenagers are laughing at us all the way! We will try to keep everything up to date and hopefully this will become easier as we learn!

When we decided to join forces in this new venture, we had no idea what a ride this would be. We have spent countless hours researching, studying and praying over our dream of becoming entreprenuers. Our web designer has been so patient with us as we learn all the internet lingo and Excel spreadsheets have become our new best friend. Sometimes we think we are about to have a brain overload! We just have to keep enjoying our delicious teas and looking at our absolutely adorable inventory and hoping that very, very soon we will be able to share it with the whole world!

Our web designer, Aaron, is such a blessing! You won't believe how awesome his work is - we can't wait for everyone to see it! Today we gave him the final approval for our home page. OOH LALA!! TOO CUTE!!! After months of orders, licensing, taxes, shipping, inventory, credit approvals, blah blah blah - we are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel! We are so excited!

Oh, by the way, just wanted to mention our Pick-Me-Up tea - one of the 22 flavors we will have available soon! We have decided that it's a miracle in a cozy, warm cup! Yummy!! Although it is an herbal tea - no caffeine - it really does Pick-Me-Up! So I can't decide if I should just head up to bed or pour myself a cup of tea and finish decorating for Christmas!

Until next time ~ Amy

Craft Show

We registered to do a craft show on Saturday, November 10. We were told this craft show was well attended, so we decided to give it a try and look to get our name out to the public. It was a very busy week of pricing our inventory and coordinating the colors for our booth, which was not very difficult because we used our signature pink, black and white theme. The booth was too cute. We were able to advertise our upcoming website and received a lot of positive feedback. We had Key Lime Pie iced tea available for tasting. It is a black tea that is delicious. The surprise seller at the show was the glass and black I-Pot. We are currently sold out. Our teas received rave reviews with the top seller being Cranberry Harvest.

In the Beginning

In May 2007, we met to chat about business ideas and the possibility of forming a partnership. Our families keep us very busy, but we decided that it was time to stop talking about our dreams and start living them. We both have always wanted to own a business so we researched and felt that opening a "modern day" tea room sounded like a blast. We both like tea - Amy prefers iced and Shellie likes it iced or hot. Amy is a great baker and Shellie likes to make it look beautiful. What a perfect combination. We started to investigate and view some possible sites in our area. A site of particular interest ended up going to another retailer, so we decided to persue the option of opening an online tea store complete with gourmet loose leaf teas and all the extra frills. We may open the "brick and mortar" business eventually, but for now we are moving forward into making our dreams become reality. Since May, we have been busy planning. At the end of September we placed our first order for inventory. In October, all the inventory started arriving. We were so excited the day our tea arrived on the DHL truck. The teas have lots of yummy names, they smell wonderful and they taste fabulous.