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Self-care is a comfort+cozy experience

Self-care with Tea

As we’ve mentioned many times before, we believe that cozy is a comforting experience. It can be different for everyone, from curling up with a good book to enjoying your favorite comfort food.  However, self-care as a lifestyle is also part of the comforting and cozy experience . Sometimes it can be very difficult to relax our minds or shift our routines.  Focusing on our own health and well being in the middle of caring about those we love.

For us, tea is something we include in our efforts to become better about self-care. It’s something simple to incorporate into your routine whether you’re at home, at work, or on the go!

It’s hard to imagine how something as simple as a cup of tea could be considered an act of self-care. However, the experience that is generated around the act of brewing and drinking tea is quite unique. The tea experience can serve as a reminder to slow down and enjoy things and not get swept away by the day! Comforting + cozy teas are especially good for this. The calming experience combined with smooth tasty flavors creates an experience that allows you to take the feeling of comfort + cozy with you throughout your day. Some of our favorites for this type of experience are Spiced Coco-Mint, Winter Apple Herbal, Scarlett Romantic Blend, Rosebud Black, and more!

It just so happens that we will be sampling some of our favorite cozy and wintry flavors this Saturday during a FREE all day (10am-4pm) tasting event! Come by and taste the teas mentioned above as well as others and try before you buy!  10% off all wintry favorite teas at the event – and a great chance to shop Valentine’s Day Gift Guide with a 10% discount!

Make a commitment to yourself to take better care of you and find a tea that will help you do it. Megan will be at the shop during the Wintry Tea Tasting of our Comfort + Cozy teas to answer any questions or help you select teas that are perfect for you this weekend. Hope to see you there!  

Valentine's Day Gift Guide

Valentine’s Day Gift Guide

By |2017-01-30T15:20:22-06:00January 30th, 2017|Drinking Tea, Events, Megan's Tea Muse|Comments Off on Self-care is a comfort+cozy experience
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After Christmas Sale

Christmas Radko OrnamentsOn the First Day of Christmas…

Join our family in celebrating the 12 Days of Christmas.  Starting today through January 6 make each Day special!

Do something that makes every day a mini-joyful celebration!  A mini-joyful celebration could be inviting a friend over for a cup of tea or even as simple as pausing a moment and seeing the gift of today.  Often the best presents are just being present in the moment with the person you are with!

AFTER CHRISTMAS SALE!  Call in to place your order or stop by the Teashop.

40% Off of all the following:

  • Christmas Tea Cozies
  • Byers’ Choice Carolers
  • Byers’ Choice Trees – table top – perfect for villages and other Christmas Displays

Christopher Radko – buy 3 get 1 free!  Prices are either $10 or $15 per ornament

Hours:  Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday 10-4pm  – 816-792-8777 – [email protected]

By |2017-10-22T10:59:35-05:00December 20th, 2016|Events, From Brenda|Comments Off on After Christmas Sale
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Surprises, Sales, & Other Tea-Lights of Small Business Saturday

small business saturdayPause and realize.  When you shop small on Small Business Saturday, November 26  you are supporting someone’s dream.  And when you shop here with us Tea Mimi and the whole tea family THANK YOU so much! Online or at the Teashop – your purchase supports our families!

But, let’s get to the good stuff.

Tea Sales + Tea Surprises = lotsa Tea Love!

Small Business Saturday and our Christmas Open House will be from 10-4pm.

Megan will be here to tell you about her Twelve Days of Christmas, too.  AND visit the Hometown Holidays on the Historic Downtown Square and pick up a passport.  You will receive lots of other specials and be entered into drawings.  Horse drawn wagon rides, crafts for kids, photos with Santa and much more!

 

By |2016-11-18T16:46:53-06:00November 18th, 2016|Events|Comments Off on Surprises, Sales, & Other Tea-Lights of Small Business Saturday
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November Events – giving thanks, holly & ivy

img_2605Larry is back this week to begin our annual trek through the wild world of Christmas decorating at Anna Marie’s.  Since 1994 our family has begun Christmas early and thank God we have our “favorite Larry” to partner with.  Larry is setting up a brand new Christmas Ornament Room – with retired Christopher Radko from several personal collections and other Christmas-worthy treats.

Also, join Brenda at the Irish Crystal on November 10 as she debuts our tea cans and serves up tea tastings at their Christmas Open House!

  • Nov 10 from 4-8pm at the Irish Crystal for their beautiful Christmas Open House.  She will be pouring cups of tea for customers and ringing in a very special Crystal Christmas Open House.
  • Nov 19 from 10:30-3:30 – Scones, Tea, Samples and Sales – Scone Making and Brewing Demos all day, fresh scone bites to munch, and lots of teas to sample. Fresh, loose mulling spiced cider. Gift ideas, Tea Bundles and everything to start your holiday shopping lists.
  • Nov 26 from 10-4pm – Hometown Holidays – Grab a Historic Downtown Liberty Passport and visit lots of local shops for specials and Christmas delights. Family activities on the square from 2-4:30pm. THANK YOU FOR Shopping Small & Local!
  • Nov 26 from 10-4 – Anna Marie’s Teas Christmas Open House – with our brand new Christmas Ornament Room! Retired, vintage, and hard-to-find original Christopher Radko glass ornaments. These are the real deal – made in Poland, Germany, Czeck Republic and Italy.
By |2016-11-03T16:12:15-05:00November 3rd, 2016|Events, From Brenda|Comments Off on November Events – giving thanks, holly & ivy
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Meet the artist behind the tea plant

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Meet the artist

Lee, Ben, and Baby-on-the-way!

 We love tea.  But, if you know our family…you know we love people even more!  It’s a great day when a door opens and these two worlds (tea+people) collide.

We feel this new door opening with our artisan tea cans.   Our gorgeous hand-drawn artisan labels are popping up in unique and special locations.  Hammerhand Coffee, Irish Crystal, and The Elms Hotel and Spa.

22 of our premium leaves, rooibos, and herbals are available in the artisan cans with the simple pencil sketches of the young artist.  Her nature-inspired idea won our hearts. The simplistic yet refined sketches speak the nature, the earthy, and the timeless way the tea leaf has given people a place for celebration and a place to heal.  A place to feel good.

Meet the Artist

Tea Plant

So, have you seen the cans? They are beautiful!  And to see the artisan tea cans you have to know the artist.  Lee.  Lee is a darling woman from Columbia, Missouri.  A new mom (baby is almost here – like a trickle of days away!)  A full time art and design student for ten years allowed Lee the skills to execute any design challenge.

Rooibos Plant

Rooibos Plant

Lee is currently a full time design team member at Pinnacle Graphics helping her mom Kim with a variety of design projects. Most recently, the two designed the logo, package design and illustrations for Anna Marie’s Tea. Once Kim finalized the logo, Lee completed three beautiful pencil sketches for representing the Leaves, Rooibos, and Herbals that we carry.

A diverse line of nature that is loose, premium and trustworthy.

We are so excited to have prints of Lee’s hand drawn pencil sketches in our new location!  7 W. Franklin Street.  The natural and organic look is so pretty tucked into the re-purposed historic location on the Liberty Square!

 

 

By |2017-02-24T13:17:48-06:00November 3rd, 2016|Drinking Tea, Events, From Brenda|2 Comments
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The Fun, Feel and Taste of Fall – Teashop Events

Comfort and cozy.  Sweet & spicy.

Fall flavors just play well with others…

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These are the words that come to mind as I brew our newest fall tea blends.  We are so excited to have our classic favorites back again!  Vanilla Pumpkin, Autumn Blooms, Winter Apple Herbal, Spiced Coco-Mint Herbal.  Just to name a few!

If you haven’t had a chance to stop by the shop and try out new teas we have two Free Saturday Events  coming up.  TEA Sampling and SCONES.  Yum…Tea, Scones, and the season of Fall make even your simplest moments special.  We hope you will join us for one or even both of these fun events – lets have our own little Fall Tea Festival Celebration!

  • October 29, 2016, no charge, 10:30-3:30pm.  Nothing too fussy – just stop by the Teashop and say hi to Megan!  She will be sampling Cinnamon Scones, Matcha Scones and Chai Scones.  Megan will be serving Pumpkin Spice Lattes made from our classic Pumpkin Spice Tea.  10% OFF Fall Teas and Brenda’s Signature Scone Mix.  25% OFF Gluten Free Scone Mix. Follow us on Instagram and meet Megan.  Megan knows tea and can tell you lots about tea including how awesome it is for your body!  Megan is a grad student at KCU and is working on her masters in biomedical sciences.  WOW.

Fall Scone Sampling Day

  • November 19, 2016, Scone Making and Tea Brewing 101, no charge, 10:30-3:30pm.  Brenda will be holding Scone Baking Demos with her favorite additions and mix-ins!  Of course Fresh Baked Scones will be available for your sampling pleasure.  Along side Brenda we will be holding Tea Brewing Demos all day long, too.  Master your own tea brewing basics and be amazed at how delicious and amazing those loose leaf teas really are – even when you brew them yourself.   10% OFF Fall Teas and Brenda’s Signature Scone Mix.  25% OFF Gluten Free Scone Mix.

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By |2016-10-17T16:50:55-05:00October 4th, 2016|Brewing Tea 101, Events, Scones and more|5 Comments
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Getting ready for Fairies in the Garden

Fairies in the Garden Every July we have two days of super fun with little ones and fun fairies of all ages!  It’s sort of like planning and running a grand birthday party for all our guests.  The Fairy Tea Party is traditionally similar each year – 3 Fairy Crafts, A Fairy Tea Party with books, A Fairy Walk and few more fun fairy ideas.  One year we even celebrated someone’s 101st Birthday at our Fairy Party!

Order Tickets: 2016 Fairies in the Garden Tea Party

Some years the girls enjoyed dancing in a Fairy Ring – other years have brought different silly fun ways to enjoy the imaginations of little ones (and even us older ones get a chance to have silly-fairy-fun, too!

Tinley and Cooper's Fairy House

Tinley and Cooper’s Fairy Houses

The inspiration to host an annual Fairies Tea Party was born from several different ideas. But, one idea came a darling book we read one summer called Fairy Houses by Tracy Kane.  A story about a little girl who spends the summer building a cozy fairy house in a nook of a tree.  The fairy house she built kept her imagination creating all summer long little things she could add to her fairy house.  Wren, Molly, and Haden had one summer building Fairy houses at a fishing cabin in Arkansas – and this year I was so excited to have my great niece and nephew – Tinley and Cooper join Wren and I in building their own fairy houses in the nook of that same old Arkansas tree.

2016 Fairies in the Garden Tea Party held on July 8 and 9 at 9:30 am.  Tickets are still available for both days – but order quickly!

 

By |2016-06-29T14:46:05-05:00June 29th, 2016|Events, Family Stuff|Comments Off on Getting ready for Fairies in the Garden
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Flower Power Tea

Tea & FlowersJasmine, Rose, Hibiscus.  Blooming flowers of summertime.  Beauty in the garden and tasty flavors in our cuppas! Next week, July 8-9 we look forward to our Fairies in the Garden Tea Party.  A party that shifts focus from just tea…to flowers & tea. Truly a joy to watch the innocent imaginations bloom as we take our Fairy Walk in Brenda’s Gardens!  Also, a good mid-way point of our year providing opportunity for mothers, grandmothers, and little ones a time to stop and ‘smell the roses.’

Lavender. Cornflowers. Sunflowers. Calendula (Marigolds). It is amazing how many of our premium loose leaf teas are carefully blended with flower buds and petals.  Blended in to add flavor and eye appeal.  The flower petals or buds are brewing right beside the tea leaves – opening up flavors and fragrance. Blooming flowers which soothes so many of our souls both inside and out.  Chamomile. Safflowers. Outdoors in the gardens and inside our cups of tea.

Flowering Herbs are also an important part of special premium loose leaf blends.  We offer several herbs that make great add-ins to flavor or enhance another tea such as Simply Peppermint and our newest – Stevia Leaves.   Loose leaves are brewed just like a tea.  The sweet liquid can be used as a healthy sweetener added to hot or iced teas.  Here’s a great list of other herbs and flowers on GardenKnowHow.com. The article includes brewing directions and even health benefits.  More Flower Power to you!

The Earth laughs in Flowers.  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

By |2016-06-29T13:59:12-05:00June 29th, 2016|Drinking Tea, Events|Comments Off on Flower Power Tea
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Midwest Tea Fest, Alice Movie, and Girl Graduated

2016 Midwest Tea Fest

2016 Midwest Tea Fest

Hey Tea Friend…How are you doing?

Over here at the Anna Tea Shop you’ll find us finishing up the crazy waves of May!  Is it possible that May was even busier than December? So never a better time to stop and think – or rethink the small ways we are taking care of ourselves!  To boost energy, metabolism, and clarity of mind reach for a cup of Matcha every day.  Stop, slow and enjoy brewing up premium loose leaf tea.  If you are loosing steam it is probably time for a cup of tea!
Being a part of KC’s very own Midwest Tea Fest is such a blessing to us.  Meeting up old tea friends, new tea friends and other fabulous tea vendors. We introduced our new Tea Fix and began shipping those out that same week.
(use coupon code:  first tea fix and save half off your first month!)
This week we were excited to be a part of the premier showing of Disney’s new movie, Alice Through the Looking Glass, handing out nearly 300 tea samples at the Union Station.  And yes, celebrating with our Girl Graduated from Liberty High School.   Yep, this month has been a whirlwind – sort of like joining Alice in our own wonderland.  Always a good time to reach for a tall glass of tea!
Alice Premier

Premier showing of Alice Through the Looking Glass

Girl Graduated

Girl Graduated.

By |2016-05-31T11:28:27-05:00May 25th, 2016|Events|2 Comments
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Midwest Tea Fest – Kansas City’s affinity for tea

Midwest Tea FestPeople love their affinities.  Call us hobbyists, collectors, or connoisseurs.  Affinities encompass – the accouterments, pursuit of, hidden treasures, and sharing & expanding of knowledge.  We enjoy our affinities and the satisfaction that comes with a shared experience with others who have the same affinity as our own.   That satisfying place where we can say “Yes, these are my people!”

Tea Drinkers…come and find your people on Saturday, May 7.  The 2nd Annual Midwest Tea Fest.  Kansas City’s very own shared affinity for all things ‘Tea-ing‘ in the Midwest.  How we drink our tea, why we drink tea, the accouterments,  tea sippings, and simply connecting with others who share your affinity for tea.

All types of tea, all types of tea drinking life styles, all types of people.  The tea community – gathered together in one place sharing the experience of “tea-ing” in Kansas City.

The Teashop Family is excited to be a part of this amazing event in Kansas City!  We will be in our Anna Tea Shop booth sampling 20 of our favorite teas through out the day.  Look for Brenda over at the Cafe Tea Tastings and Two special Tea Presentations.  We look forward meeting new faces and embracing old tea friends.  A place where we say “Yes.  These are my people”.

Anna Tea Shop’s Presentations:

Flavoring Your Tea Naturally at 1:00PM and Lifestyles of “Tea-ing” in America at 3:00PM.

2016 Midwest Tea Fest

 

By |2016-04-28T13:21:05-05:00April 28th, 2016|Drinking Tea, Events, Family Stuff|Comments Off on Midwest Tea Fest – Kansas City’s affinity for tea
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