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I'm coming to see you Vancouver!

Lana McCullough

Tags 100% soy candles, candles, oktoberfest

I'm coming to see you Vancouver!

  It's mid September already and I'm busy with the Salt Spring Farmers Market and getting ready for an Oktoberfest Market the last weekend of September in downtown Vancouver! Yes, Vancouver, I'll be there Sept 28th and 29th at the Junction Public Market from  11 am - 9 pm Saturday and 11 am to 7 pm on Sunday.   The market is at 200 Granville Street at the outdoor plaza between Waterfront Station and Canada Place.  Just down the street from where the Vancouver Christmas Market is held.  Except, this year, instead of being at the VCM, I'll be at this...


A new Hartmont scent has finally arrived!

Lana McCullough

Tags 100% soy candles, candles, handmade with love, summer, unique scents

A new Hartmont scent has finally arrived!

NEW SCENT ANNOUNCEMENT!   Happy August to you!  I am so excited to announce my newest Summer scent that I'm sneaking into the line, with still a few weeks left of sunny weather.  My new scent is called Salty Mermaid.  It is an intoxicating blend of salt water and ocean breeze with agave, seaweed and coconut.  Think a mermaid sipping out of a coconut while perched on a harbour rock with a little bit of seaweed caught on her tail while the ocean waves crash around her. If you like my Beach Bum scent, you might like this new scent. ...


It's been a year already on Salt Spring Island and hello Lil Red Barn!

Lana McCullough

Tags 100% soy candles, farmstand, goodies

It's been a year already on Salt Spring Island and hello Lil Red Barn!

Time flies!  It was a year ago this week that I was scrambling to get all the packing finished and put onto a truck between snow storms and getting on the road to Salt Spring Island.  I knew that I just had to take the leap and get here to see what direction everything would go in as I started to rebuild from the devastation of the pandemic.  And so we arrived through a few trials and tribulations that we fondly (or not so fondly) reminisced on this past weekend.  What was so great about the process of reminiscing was...


More twists and turns than Salt Spring Island roads!

More twists and turns than Salt Spring Island roads!

Happy Spring Break to everyone!  Don't you just love when you plan for one thing and then something else comes to the forefront and changes need to be made?  I feel like that may just be my theme of 2024. The roads on Salt Spring Island are winding and hilly like the pic above. To give you some idea, the speed limit on most of the island is 50 km per hour, there are no stop lights (there are stop signs) and most roads have a do not pass, solid line down the middle.  If you get stuck behind someone...