Strip Teas Giveaway

As if a fabulous feature wasn't enough, LAPretty.com is giving away three boxes of StripTeas before Valentine's Day! Enter to win on their site!

http://www.lapretty.com/2009/01/stripteas-giveaway.html

"Give your bf that StripTeas you've always promised" - LA Pretty

Today on the fabulous LAPretty.com:

"As you may have guessed from our last post, we LA Pretties are getting pumped up for Valentine's Day. I even started my day off with a super sexy breakfast compliments of LA-based StripTeas.

StripTeas is the culmination of an East-meets-West partnership between LA Pretty Emily Koteff and genuine tea guru Mridul Tiwari from Jaipur, India. Available in 7 flavors, the teas were personally created by Tiwari who also creates teas for the five-star Rambagh Palace in Jaipur, the exclusive Trident Hilton and the luxurious Palace on Wheels.

These teas are far too special to be served up in plain ol' bags! Their fresh, whole leaves and exotic herbs instead come in cute "strips" which allow for the tea leaves to move around in the hot water so that their flavors come alive. Want an even more intense flavor? Then swizzle that puppy around and give those yummy tea leaves even more room to move.
Regular tea bags can also contain adhesives and even bleaches which will compromise flavor. Instead, StripTeas use aluminum foil to package their leaves, the same material used for organic coffee and fine chocolates.

Pick up some boxes, including one that contains all seven varieties, from their online store (enter Feb14VIP before 2/7 and get 10% off your order!), or from Clever (2823 Main Street, Santa Monica)."

http://www.lapretty.com/2009/01/you-can-finally-get-your-bf-that.html

Mention on Gifts & Decorative Accessories Market Report

So excited to see StripTeas (one-month-old, seven-months-old ... close enough right?) on the Gifts & Decorative Accessories Market Report from the Dallas Gift Show on www.giftsanddec.com.

"One-month-old Stripteas by Kamelia Luxe offers flavored teas in recyclable aluminum. The line includes flavors like Pushkar Rose, Darjeeling and Sweet Khus. The teas come packaged in a set of 12." The best part is the photo, one of only a few from the whole market!

To read the whole article, click here: http://www.giftsanddec.com/article/CA6630697.html?nid=2401&rid=3543587

Happy New Year

Only two weeks late, right? :/

There has been lots going on, most recently a fabulous tea party at Clever in Santa Monica. Over a dozen lovely ladies showed up for tea, scones, finger sandwiches, and champagne. It was a delight to meet everybody and I hope to host more tea parties soon. Thanks so much to Radka, owner of Clever, for such a great night out.

I'm also pleased to announce that StripTeas will be making its first appearance at a trade show this week at the Dallas Gift Market! Apparently 250,000 people come to shop each year - yikes! I'm thrilled to be in the Portico Collection showroom with other fabulous lines hand-selected by a wonderful group of women, all veterans of the retail industry, whose taste and style are obviously top notch :)

And lastly, I want to thank James Lemmo for his beautiful product photography, which is now featured on my website. I also never thanked Beau Gunderson for the wonderful close-ups of the teas, as well as the time and effort he put into my site's launch. Couldn't have done it without him!

I'm currently perfecting a delicious Maristar cocktail once teatime is over and happy hour begins, so check back soon for the recipe!