About

Hello! I’m Claire, the embroideress behind Delicious Monster Tea. I live in Cardiff and work from my little yellow home studio.

I create hand embroidered keepsake gifts - from handwritten message handkerchiefs to personalised baby cardigans and organic cotton t-shirts. Each piece is stitched by hand and made to last, with the hope it will be treasured for years to come. 

[Happy peach, teaching my first ever embroidery workshop in 2019.]

Delicious Monster Tea started very much by accident one Sunday afternoon in 2016. I was wearing a t-shirt that I had embroidered a little slogan onto (I was teaching myself hand embroidery and no item in my wardrobe had escaped my needle and thread) when a stranger stopped me to ask where I had bought it. In my quietest voice I replied, “I made it.”

And just like that, I had my first customer!

The business started as a tiny Etsy shop selling hand embroidered t-shirts. It grew slowly at first and then very quickly after Fearne Cotton wore one of my 'I'd rather be in Ibiza' t-shirts. By 2018, I was able to leave my office job to become a full-time embroideress.

Since then I have slowly expanded the range to include baby clothing, handkerchiefs, and other hand embroidered keepsakes – all designed with thoughtful gifting in mind. Whether it’s a t-shirt embroidered with an inside joke, or a wedding hanky with a love note in the handwriting of your late Nana, everything I make is designed to help share memories and express love.

[Newly self employed, working al fresco in 2018.]

Delicious Monster Tea is still just me behind the scenes - designing, stitching, packing orders and occasionally tweaking the code on my website! As a result, I hope that my gooey sentimentality shines through.

I love hearing from customers and reading the beautiful, funny, romantic and sometimes heart-breaking stories behind your orders.

I don’t have any grand plans to take over the world with this little business. Success for me is being able to live a happy and balanced life, doing things that I like to do and creating small moments of joy and love for others through my work. I feel incredibly lucky to have found my little corner of the world and to be flourishing here.