Now Located at
17 Mathewson St, Griswold, CT 06351
(Some GPS devices will acknowledge Jewett City as the town instead.)
Thurs - Sun 10am - 5pm
17 Mathewson St, Griswold, CT 06351
(Some GPS devices will acknowledge Jewett City as the town instead.)
Thurs - Sun 10am - 5pm
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Our more recent history :
Around 2015 Colleen & her wife Lydia had taken over doing the bulk of the mixing & hauling for Jane (Auntie Arwen). We started moving from reenactments only to many other craft fairs in CT & into a few other SCA kingdom events & small Renaissance fairs (NH, VT, CT, MA).
September 2019-2022 Colleen & Lydia now run & own Auntie Arwen's Spices as a FT business. During this time we ran everything out of our home. Expanding & growing our spicy followers began happening at a faster pace, we had Stormy Spice & Auntie Tom as helpers here & there. We kept bringing out the tea blends in hopes of expanding our tea followers. Auntie Lisa came on board & dove into the tea department to help make it bigger & better.
Our open & sniff policy prior to the pandemic is gone. Many customers (including us) miss those days.
With Armistice in August 2020 Auntie Colleen & Lydia claimed the hill near the west gate of Pennsic for the 2 week spice shop. It's our new home of flat land & a view when we step out of the shop, no more staring into the sun all afternoon.
October of 2022 we started remodeling what was a salon in Jewett City, CT into a whole shop (November 2022 - now) for a brick & mortar location. We mix, setup for events & package to ship from there while having a small portion for those who wish to shop & visit.
Thank you for helping us continue to grow
"A man can live without gold, but he can't live without spice."
Around 2015 Colleen & her wife Lydia had taken over doing the bulk of the mixing & hauling for Jane (Auntie Arwen). We started moving from reenactments only to many other craft fairs in CT & into a few other SCA kingdom events & small Renaissance fairs (NH, VT, CT, MA).
September 2019-2022 Colleen & Lydia now run & own Auntie Arwen's Spices as a FT business. During this time we ran everything out of our home. Expanding & growing our spicy followers began happening at a faster pace, we had Stormy Spice & Auntie Tom as helpers here & there. We kept bringing out the tea blends in hopes of expanding our tea followers. Auntie Lisa came on board & dove into the tea department to help make it bigger & better.
Our open & sniff policy prior to the pandemic is gone. Many customers (including us) miss those days.
With Armistice in August 2020 Auntie Colleen & Lydia claimed the hill near the west gate of Pennsic for the 2 week spice shop. It's our new home of flat land & a view when we step out of the shop, no more staring into the sun all afternoon.
October of 2022 we started remodeling what was a salon in Jewett City, CT into a whole shop (November 2022 - now) for a brick & mortar location. We mix, setup for events & package to ship from there while having a small portion for those who wish to shop & visit.
Thank you for helping us continue to grow
"A man can live without gold, but he can't live without spice."
Watch out for these faces on the road and in your shipped packages.
(ok we won't fit in the packaging, but we may send you a note !)
(ok we won't fit in the packaging, but we may send you a note !)
Sustainability in our Packaging
The glass jars are chosen for their exceptional sealing capability. Our jars keep blends for well over 1yr, whole spices for grinding last easily 2yrs (and that is just what is the traditional shelf life for spices in the plastic jars! we don't know how much longer our blends stay fresh because the jars are emptied by then.)
We do not purchase bubble wrap, or packing peanuts. We reuse the packaging we get from our suppliers.
When we need zip locks for food product regulations we choose 'Green Line' they are biodegradable and begin breakdown after 1yr.
Our bag packaging has changed to recyclable from the rice paper. We found the rice paper would allow more moisture into the packaging, so spices & teas would have a shorter lifespan while in them.
The largest packaging for 1 pound to just fluffy large are almost into the new recyclable.
We do not purchase bubble wrap, or packing peanuts. We reuse the packaging we get from our suppliers.
When we need zip locks for food product regulations we choose 'Green Line' they are biodegradable and begin breakdown after 1yr.
Our bag packaging has changed to recyclable from the rice paper. We found the rice paper would allow more moisture into the packaging, so spices & teas would have a shorter lifespan while in them.
The largest packaging for 1 pound to just fluffy large are almost into the new recyclable.
Consider keeping & reusing your glass jars & order our recyclable refill bags.
March 21, 2022 glass jar returns will now be a .50 cent credit if labels are removed
and No Credit if labels are still on the jars.
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***** Reviews from customers
Who is Jane T. Sibley, and Auntie Arwen?
And when did this spice business start?
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Auntie Arwen, known in the "real world" as Jane T. Sibley, has been a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) ever since the first Pennsic held at Coopers' Lake. Actually, she joined right after Pennsic 5, which was in 1975. She started out selling tag sale items at Pennsic, and then graduated to crystals, tumble stones, crystal balls, and suchlike at science fiction cons as well as at SCA events. This was successful for many years, but when the crystal fad began to die out, she switched over to spice blends. Beginning with twelve blends, over the years the variety has increased to today's over 300 blends, as well as salts, peppercorns, and more.
Along the way, she wrote "Norse Mythology...according to Uncle Einar", "The Hammer of the Smith", "The Divine Thunderbolt: Missile of the Gods", "A Different Dragon", and "The Way of the Wise: Traditional Norwegian Folk and Magic Medicine", the most detailed work of this nature in the English language.
Auntie spent her college summers with her family on a yawl in Scandinavia, going from place to place as the whim took them. After getting her BA for History of Art, at Russell Sage College, she spent a year at the University of Oslo, majoring in Norse mythology, runes, salvage of folklore, and field techniques in folklore collection. After coming home, she got a job at Wesleyan University in the biology department followed by Yale University. Grants don't last forever, so when the last one died, she was able to complete her Ph.D. in History / Comparative Religion at La Salle University, build the spice business, and start writing, and writing. Encourage her to finish.
When the current book has been finished and the manuscript sent off to the publisher, she will start on the next one, and after that, yet another one. In between writing books she plans on getting back to another love that has been a part of her family history; painting. Auntie is not bored.
Along the way, she wrote "Norse Mythology...according to Uncle Einar", "The Hammer of the Smith", "The Divine Thunderbolt: Missile of the Gods", "A Different Dragon", and "The Way of the Wise: Traditional Norwegian Folk and Magic Medicine", the most detailed work of this nature in the English language.
Auntie spent her college summers with her family on a yawl in Scandinavia, going from place to place as the whim took them. After getting her BA for History of Art, at Russell Sage College, she spent a year at the University of Oslo, majoring in Norse mythology, runes, salvage of folklore, and field techniques in folklore collection. After coming home, she got a job at Wesleyan University in the biology department followed by Yale University. Grants don't last forever, so when the last one died, she was able to complete her Ph.D. in History / Comparative Religion at La Salle University, build the spice business, and start writing, and writing. Encourage her to finish.
When the current book has been finished and the manuscript sent off to the publisher, she will start on the next one, and after that, yet another one. In between writing books she plans on getting back to another love that has been a part of her family history; painting. Auntie is not bored.
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Research for Botanical & Tisane information :
We keep reading through research books by leaders in the field. Starting with Way of the Wise by Jane Sibley, and just a few others shown here. >>>> |
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