The First Hour: Morning Ritual Gift Set
A morning routine set: a pressed-flower notebook, green and white tea, a quartz tea strainer and a citrus room spray
This tea wants water well off the boil, 65 to 75 °C, and 5 to 8 minutes, which is about how long it takes to write three lines by hand. A quartz-weighted strainer in the mug, a notebook of rough Nepali paper, one spray of citrus as the window opens: the first hour, before anyone else gets a say in it.
The First Hour: Morning Ritual Gift Set is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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A morning routine set: a pressed-flower notebook, green and white tea, a quartz tea strainer and a citrus room spray
This tea wants water well off the boil, 65 to 75 °C, and 5 to 8 minutes, which is about how long it takes to write three lines by hand. A quartz-weighted strainer in the mug, a notebook of rough Nepali paper, one spray of citrus as the window opens: the first hour, before anyone else gets a say in it.
The First Hour: Morning Ritual Gift Set is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
About this product
A small ritual
- Put a heaped teaspoon of tea in the strainer, hang the quartz over the rim of the mug, and pour water that has rested off the boil for a few minutes.
- While it steeps, write three lines by hand: whatever is at the top of your mind, not a to-do list.
- Lift out the strainer, open the window, give the room one spray of citrus, and start the day only then.
What's inside
- One lokta notebook, 15 x 12 cm, 45 unlined leaves, the cover pressed with real petals and closed with a bamboo toggle and button; each cover differs.
- 50 g of loose Sencha green and Pai Mu Tan white tea with apple and cinnamon, in a kraft pouch. Contains almond.
- One stainless steel mesh tea strainer on a short chain, with a raw clear quartz point that rests outside the cup.
- One 100 ml room spray, Citrus Fresh: lemon, orange and lemongrass over a soft woody base, in amber glass.
The pieces arrive together in one parcel. They are not gift-wrapped. The spray bottle is glass and is packed with care.
Morning pages come from Julia Cameron's book The Artist's Way, published in 1992: three pages written longhand, first thing, before the day starts asking for anything. Three lines is a gentler way in.
Material
Paper, Steel, Stainless Steel, Gemstone
Scent family
Citrus





