Growing in Good Company: Welcoming Coffee & Handcrafted Ceramics

There are seasons in a shop’s life just like there are seasons in a year. Some bring quiet reflection, some bring inspiration, and some open the door to something beautifully new.

This season, we are stepping into one of those new chapters — and we are so excited to share it with you.

For years, 3 of Cups Tea has been built on a simple belief: that a cup can be a ritual to rest, reconnect, and feel held. Tea has always been our language for that. It still is.
But over the past year, a question began to whisper its way into our work:

What else can we hold, and what else can we offer, while staying true to the heart of our craft?

The answer arrived slowly, like steeping leaves opening in warm water. It came in conversations with local makers, in small experiments, in the shared joy of tasting something new together.
It came in the form of coffee — thoughtfully sourced, small-batch, solar-roasted coffee — and in handmade ceramics, crafted with care by an artisan in our own community.

And now, it’s time to bring those offerings to you.

Introducing Coffee to Our Tea-Loving World

We know: it might seem unexpected that a tea shop would introduce coffee. We’ve never seen tea and coffee as opposites — just different expressions of the same ritual.

Our first offering, an organic Ethiopian Yirgacheffe (medium roast, natural process), is bright, smooth, and layered with notes of citrus, honey, and cocoa.
It’s roasted locally in small batches using solar electricity, a detail that matters deeply to us because care for the earth has always been part of how we brew, blend, and serve.

We chose coffee that reflects what we value most: clarity, craftsmanship, and connection. Something that belongs not in competition with tea, but in conversation with it — an invitation to savor in a new way.

Welcoming Handmade Ceramics: A Vessel for Meaning

At the same time, something else has been quietly taking shape: a line of handcrafted ceramics made in partnership with a local artist.
We knew from the beginning that if we were going to offer new pieces to drink from, they had to honor the same soulfulness that guides our tea.

These pieces — from everyday tumblers to myth-inspired carved mugs to delicate steeping vessels — are made slowly, intentionally, and with a potter’s reverence for form and function.

Every curve of a cup, every carved feather, every glaze pulled from the kiln tells its own story. And now those stories get to become part of yours.

Why Now?

Because ritual matters.
Because holding something beautiful can shape the way a morning feels.
Because sharing a cup — whether tea or coffee — is one of the simplest ways we foster community.

We’re not replacing anything. We’re expanding.
We’re growing in good company, alongside artisans whose hands shape beauty and roasters whose craft reflects the land they work with.
We’re widening the table and pouring one more kind of comfort into the cup.

And we’re doing it because you have been here with us — supporting, encouraging, and inspiring us to keep evolving while staying rooted in what we love most.

Thank You for Being Part of This Chapter

This new collection of coffee and ceramics is available now, online.
This feels like more than a launch, it feels like a milestone: a chance to deepen what we offer and how we gather.

Thank you for growing with us.
Thank you for making space at your table for something new.
And thank you for being the reason 3 of Cups Tea feels less like a business and more like a community woven together, sip by sip.

Here’s to the next pour — whatever it brings, and whoever it warms.

🫖✨
With love,

Amanda
3 of Cups Curator