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Date: 5/9/2023
NORTHAMPTON — Spill the Tea Sis, the popular apothecary on 183 Main St., has officially expanded with the opening of a home and gift shop just a few doors down on 177 Main St.
“We love the space that we started in,” said owner Mischa Roy. “But, we’ve brought in so many cool local art items, gift and home items that, honestly, that space is so little, it couldn’t handle it.”
The apothecary on 183 Main St., owned and operated by three generations of a blended family, officially opened its doors back in the summer providing artist-made, local and intentionally sourced products that include anything from crystals, candles, small-batch tea, books and more.
Spill the Tea Sis has been an active member of the community since opening its original store in July, hosting around 10 events per month and curating a selection of items that were either made by shop owners themselves or curated from local artists.
“Our tagline is that we’re a curated collection for the modern mystic, and we truly are,” said Roy.
Now, with the new expansion, Spill the Tea Sis will be able to offer even more to the community, according to Roy.
The larger square footage will house a teaching and learning space for expanded offerings of holistic and metaphysical classes and private tarot readings, as well as a tarot library with over 150 donated decks for people to learn from without purchasing.
The second location also features a kid’s corner, a zodiac section, an expanded tea selection and a holistic healing section with herbal healing products fire ciders, tinctures and much more.
“Downtown has lost so many handmade and artisan-based businesses…we saw there was a niche where we were already bringing those things in, and we have the capacity to bring even more local artists,” Roy said.
Roy told Reminder Publishing that Spill the Tea Sis already sources products from about a dozen local artists at the time of opening the home and gift shop, and there is a hope that they can bring in work from more local artists who typically do not have a space where their work is shown.
For example, the shop ordered a line of teacups and tarot mugs made just for Spill the Tea from a trans artist in Vermont, as well as handmade kaleidescopes from a local artist from Florence
“We really are working to curate items directly with artists that are made for us,” Roy said. “We really have a perspective that aligns with magic, intuition, LGBTQ, women…the things that align with us make sense.”
Roy said that a specific list of readings, workshops and events for the summer will eventually be published in the coming weeks.
The existing store on 183 Main St. will remain a metaphysical apothecary, while the home and gift shop on 177 Main St. will allow them to curate a wider collection of rare and difficult-to-source products involving the “celestial, metaphysical and earth-connected foundations of the brand.” The new shop also allows Spill the Tea to better showcase how they make their hand-poured candles of all different scents.
With the new opening, the shop will continue to be a place that assists customers with whatever connection to spirit they may have. “Everybody who walks in here is working with their own path to spirit, whatever that may be,” said Roy. “We [as a shop] just help you find cool things to keep for your craft, for your health, for your home that give a little more context and connection.”
Readers can learn more about the expanded shop by visiting the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SpillTheTeaSisHomeAndGift. Readers may also read Reminder Publishing’s story on Spill the Tea’s first shop to learn more about the apothecary: http://archives.thereminder.com/localnews/northampton/spill-the-tea-sis-brings-magic-to-downtown-northam/.