I grew up in candy-colored Florida on acres of farmland and butterfly fields, where I could climb the ivy covered stone walls and perch in secret. There I would sit for hours upon hours, reading books about fairies. I became enamored with them, with fairies, with folklore, with the inherent union between nature and magic. This obsession even survived my adolescent rebellion, taking on new form as I evolved in the arts. 

Tea parties were not vividly a part of my childhood. I came to tea on my own, out of a love for the idea of it, when I was an exceptionally sullen fourteen-year-old. It was slow at first. A night in early Spring with two friends, one trudging through the wreck of their day in a time when almost everything was felt for the first. The other offers chamomile tea. “It’ll make you really sleepy,” they say. Or something like that. And suddenly every calm moment I create starts with a cup of tea.

Before long, tea became my go-to drink. When I left the comforts of companionship for the sake the self understanding, tea became my closest friend. All quiet and warm and full of wisdom, unique and layered as one can be. In the garden, on my bedside, affable and undemanding at the same time.

Teasea by TC was conceived in 2021, when the idea sparked to meld my love for tea to my obsession for storytelling. To me, Teasea reflects the effects of nature. Nature, which exists in the core of what we do. To drink tea is to allow in the essence of our living Earth. An Earth filled with folklore and soul and stability. For someone who’s two parts air and one part water like me, taking in this essence is absolutely essential.

It is not coincidental that tea is mankind’s first source of comfort, that it sits between the palms of people in hardship and overjoy alike. Washing over all the senses, reminding you that you exist. You are here. There is wisdom to be felt. Some things are made to make you warm.

I feel a feminine strength in this energy, one so often overlooked in modern American media. An assured strength that sits at the table in total silence until its opposite hears its own echo and settles down. A healing strength, that spreads its wisdom even while wounded. One without pride or a need to prove itself. One that continues to create despite being cut down time and time again. I believe in the strength of these qualities and, with Teasea, I want to promote them in the world.

Teasea by TC is ode to girlhood in honor of Mother Earth and her Maker. A thank you for the flawless formula of it all. I say this quite a bit: there is about a one in four-hundred trillion chance of being born. Of getting to say you’re made of stardust and looking out across a farmland, running through the fields. Perching on an ivy covered stone, leaving letters for the fairies. Of reaching out to touch the roses and smelling the scent that lingers. Being loved and loving back. Holding tea between your hands and by your heart. Inhaling the scent, exhaling to cool. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Then the waterfall of wisdom within.

Welcome to the world of Teasea.