A riel Davis grew up enjoying tea parties at her grandmother’s house, always feeling rather adultlike and quite fancy as she grasped the delicate cups and saucers with which the table was always prettily set. This New Jersey native would have never imagined then—or even later as a very young adult—that such dainty wares would someday become for her the cornerstone of a creatively rewarding entrepreneurial endeavor.
Although Ariel appreciated fine china as