About us

Nora and Wim welcome you

As we now have mostly retired from running our store in Doetinchem, Netherlands and our three webshops HotTeapots.com, DeTheepotwinkel.nl and DerTeekannenladen.de we like to share a brief glimpse of our history.  

Greetings from Nora and Wim

We did enjoy each visit from one of our many new or repeat customers. We enjoyed giving advice and making sure you leave with products that you can enjoy or give with confidence. We stocked well over 2000 products from large well known brands to niche items that we just felt that need to be part of our offering. This is now reduced to about 70 different tea cozies. 

We wish you all the best. 

We love(d) what we do!

What started with a simple webshop as a hobby way back in 2003 has became our full time passion over time. This lasted until end of October 2023. We have now gone into retirement and only do some parttime activities.  
We loved to find solutions for our customers. Just the right tableware with the tea that you (will) love.
We thrive(d) on happy customers.

We care about our products and the environment!

We ship to several countries. This means we have to use adequate packaging to make sure you get your products in perfect condition.
We also aim to use no more packaging than needed and what we use needs to be as sustainable as possible.

About our store

In September 2009 we opened our store and became “multichannel” after having been a pure online store since 2003. In October 2023 our store closed for the last time and now we are back to be a pure internet company with limited assortment and only a few countries that we deliver to. Regretfully we had to stop shipping to countries outside the European Union. 

Your host and owner:  Wim

Wim Varwijk

About me

My career started in food retail many years ago. I since spend many years in IT and was in Procurement for over 15 years as well. 

In the early 2000’s I decided that we should have a personal website. We showed our teapot-collection to the World and soon became teapot sellers in May 2003 . From there our business progressed, initially as a side line but over time as full time activity with the store and online business we run since 2009. Now, late 2023 we have reverted back to selling online only to a limited number of countries. 

Your Host:  Nora

Nora Varwijk

About me

I did a study in garden design and still today I am looking at any garden with an eye for improvements. I love to spend time outdoors in general and gardens in particular. .  

I made a long career in IT for many years during which I also met Wim. In recent years I have been spending all my time in our business. I love spending time on merchandising in our store. On a daily basis my priority was focused on customer services as well as fulfillment. Going into (semi-) retirement I am looking forward to spend as much time as possible in our new garden.