Our story
People love love.
Sheena LaBadie, owner
Between the Sips began over a birthday tea. Sheena LaBadie and her daughter Shawna go out for high tea every year, and one year the conversation turned to what they both loved most: romance novels and a proper pot of tea. By the end of the afternoon they had menus, themes and a name.
Sheena has read romance since she was fifteen, starting with the Harlequin westerns her mother handed down and following the genre into fantasy, where the love stories come with dragons. Her great-grandmother read Harlequins too. She wanted a place where readers of every age could talk about the books they love without apologizing for them, and where someone who doesn't drink coffee could still sit down with a book and a warm cup.
After thirteen years managing health care clinics and nearly fourteen years in Colorado, she took a small-business course, rewrote the plan until it held together, and opened the doors in August 2026. The day the sign went up, she sat in the parking lot and cried. Now she wants to learn her regulars by name.