Our Story

Friday Afternoon is a small family owned, geeky-themed tea company. Here you will find loose leaf tea, custom blends, tea wares and accessories, and educational tastings.

Owner Friday Elliott's unique take on blending stems from a neurological cross-wiring known as Lexical-Gustatory Synesthesia. Due to this trait, Friday experiences language (both spoken and written) and abstract concepts as distinct flavor profiles. In short, she literally tastes words and ideas. This "superpower" allows Friday to create blends with a completely unique approach. With a background in herbal remedies as well as culinary arts and education, she shares her Tea Wizardry with people all over the world.

Over the past few years, our crew has grown and we've expanded our fandom blend selection to include beautiful creations from other members of our team. Meet our entire crew down below!

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Meet our Crew!

Friday (she/her/ella)
Title: CEO/Executive Fae
Favorite Tea: Any pure black tea with golden tips!
Favorite Book: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Fandoms: Latin American horror, surrealist literary fiction, experimental small-scale agriculture
Fun Fact: I'm an aspiring Death Doula and horror author.
Blends by Friday
Greg (he/him)
Title: Tea Ninja
Favorite Tea: Don't make me choose just one! Anything dark and earthy!
Favorite Book: The Lord of the Rings
Number One Fandom: Star Wars
Fun Fact: Quietly Nerdy, will happily have long nerd-outs with people about all sorts of things, I'm just shy, I swear!
Blends by Greg
Narah (she/they/fae)
Job title: Nebulochaotic Tea Imp
Favorite tea: Caged Heart & Swan Prince
Favorite books: Murderbot Diaries & The Gardener’s Hand series
Fandoms: Stardew Valley & Avatar
Fun fact: I’ve watched The Office on a loop for five years.
Blends by Narah
Marcus (they/he)
Title: Inhaler of Flowers
Favorite tea: Peachy Dream
Favorite Book: Harmony by Project Itoh
Fandoms: NieR, Zelda, Fire Emblem, Golden Sun
Fun fact: I once fought a forest fire armed with naught but my undergarments, and won.
Blends by Marcus
Anisa (she/they)
Job Title: Valkyrie of Tea and Textiles
Favorite Tea: Pure green oolongs and sweet shou puerhs
Favorite Book: The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson
Fandoms: ATLA, Stargate SG1, The Office, X Files
Fun Fact: I’m named after a lead singer of a Seattle-based psychedelic rock band
Blends by Anisa
Kayla (she/her)
Job Title: Resident Cryptid or Hoarder of Mushrooms or Hobbiton Shopkeep
Favorite Tea: Good Witch Bakery, A Giant Woman, Sticky Rice Sheng Pu-Erh, Lapsang Souchong, Genmaicha
Favorite Book: The Locked Tomb series and Howl’s Moving Castle
Fandoms: Indie games, Dragon Age, Legend of Zelda, Elder Scrolls, the Witcher
Fun Fact: My favorite stage role was when I played a corpse for 3 1/2 hours
Blends by Kayla
Mori (they/he)
Title: Tea Monster
Favorite Tea: Jasmine tea, my beloved
Favorite Book: Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, and the Castra Trilogy by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Number One Fandom: anything about space, dinosaurs, or alchemy
Fun Fact: I am also synesthetic!
Blends by Mori
Jesse (he/him)
Title: Hey You
Favorite Tea: Goldie Boys (Golden Snails), Moldy Boys (Golden Flowers Heicha), and Lumpy Boys (Old Tea Head Shou Puer)
Favorite Book: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Fandoms: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Worm by Wildbow, Cradle by Will Wight, One Piece, Dark Souls, ATLA, TMNT
Fun Fact: I like turtles.