Actually, ABO Coffee and Dessert and its companion store Craf'it have multiple personalities. A hodgepodge of goods sold under one roof maintains style, good looks and an upscale feel. That's thanks in part to the store's interior design and décor and top-quality products not found in big box stores.

The three owners used the initials of their first names to come up with the "ABO" in the shop's name. The partners include sister and brother Ada Yue and Otto Yu and their friend Ben Xiao.

"We always wanted to do both a coffee shop and a crafts store," Yue says of the unique concept.

"We found the [space], and it was too big for just a coffee shop and too big for just the crafts, so we combined them," she says.

Customers enter the Craf'it side where little things that invite handling sit all around a low counter.

An onion-domed miniature cathedral to the left marks the gateway to a world of paper products and tools and accessories to craft and play with. Dozens of unique gift items are interspersed throughout this half of the store.

A glass wall and door outline a room where customers taking craft classes create such things as decorative greeting cards.

And in the second half of the store, tall cherry red tables and adjustable stools mark the food service section--ABO Coffee and Dessert.

What allows these two operations to co-exist are the products.

Scattered about the store, the items for sale are a step beyond the ordinary, selected because of the multiple personalities, interests or preferences of the store's owners.

Yue collects milk glasses and salt and pepper shakers by Ritzenhoff. She discovered the unique line in Europe. It seemed only natural to carry the German maker's line in her own store. Yue says her husband teases her because she is tempted to keep them and not sell them.

"I love this one," she said pointing to a Ritzenhoff aqua milk glass that's packaged in a milk carton.

Inside the glass, a puckered-up, red-lipped, green frog stares back, and lip prints are etched around the body of the glass.

"Some of these milk glasses are already retired," Yue says, which raises their value.

Keeping time with Yue's weakness for particular products is her husband's predilection for clocks. They are all over the store.

Many of the craft products are geared toward paper designs, either applying something to the paper such as with a rubber stamp or a sticker or applying a process to the paper such as piercing or embossing.

Yue--who holds a full-time job as a quality assurance software technician--is a 20-year crafting veteran.

Her own creations are displayed around the store. For instance, her framed sheet of Hambly Studios graphic flower paper shows how one can turn a single sheet of unique paper into wall decoration.

When the room at the center of the store isn't being used for a crafts class, it's open to members of the frequent buyer program, who are welcome to purchase coffee or tea and dessert and craft away at their leisure while the store is open.

Personal touches of Yue's, her husband and her partners are everywhere. There's a photo of Yue's Pekingese dog in a magnetic frame. There's a collection of woodcraft construction kits--the kind Xiao used to make the miniature onion-domed building that greets customers near the entry.

"The whole reason we carry these is because Ben likes to do it," Yue says. "We know our products because we use them," she says.

Growing up in Hong Kong, Yue and her brother--Yu designed all the signs in the store at his own prepress shop--feel it's the British influence of their youth that draws them to British and other European products.

Customers browse items for sale while their latte is brewing in ABO's state-of-the-art coffee maker. Yue says the high-tech machine can brew the coffee and steam the milk at the same time and, after it dispenses the drink, it even cleans itself.

Focused on the "health aspect" of food service, ABO serves only organic coffee and teas, and the vegetables used in sandwiches are organic as well. Smoothies are made from fresh fruit, and some of the baked goods are made in-house. There is no soda; instead, the cooler is filled with iced teas, juices and waters.

Yue offers customers a taste of the two soups of the day, reasoning that if customers like what they taste, they will buy it.

Yue's desire to be a "little different" than other coffee and dessert shops drives the organic, tasty and health aspect of the food. It's also why Craf'it carries products that won't be found on the shelves of Michael's craft stores. "I don't want to have just another craft store," Yue said.

ABO Coffee and Dessert and Craf'it, 1139 Tasman Drive in Sunnyvale, The telephone number for ABO Coffee and Dessert is 408.400.0139, and the number for Craf'it is 408.400.0765 or 866.862.7338.