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Fall/Christmas schedule update!
Hi there! All systems are go for Christmas and the upcoming show season! I keep counting on my fingers....yup, 3 months. Eeps! It all starts off this upcoming weekend with the Made In the 605 Autumn Pop-up Market at The Pipe Shop in North Vancouver. My schedule is filling out with only a couple of applications dangling in the air. One is because I just found the market today to apply to so that's kind of on me. This is not, in any way, a comment on organizers. All organizers have been fairly good with communicating right away whether they...
Mid August prep for Christmas is in full gear!
Christmas is just around the corner! I know, I know, you are saying that just isn't so let's do the math... 1/2 or August is gone already. It's the 14th today. Which means we have Sept, Oct, Nov and December. That was only 4 months friends. We are almost on the last 1/3 of the year. So yes, Christmas is just about here, especially this year when I am potentially starting my Fall/Christmas markets as early as the first of October. So the past few weeks have been ordering and waiting on new supplies to arrive and as they arrive...
It's always been about scent and design!
July 2023 marked the 22nd Anniversary of my first year of making candles! It's true! On July 15, 2001, I made my very first votive on my farm. I was making purely for myself because when one lives on a farm, there are certain farm smells that one wishes to distance themselves from. I loved my horses but they do tend to take over in the scent department. It didn't take me long to go from a plain and ordinary candle to creating colors and designs with techniques that I learnt either through trial and error or through early tutorials...
It's been a blur....and now it's almost November!
A blur....in a really, really great way! Thank you to everyone who has come out and supported me at markets (especially at Scattered Seeds) and continues to support me online. It's been a busy month! The pace hasn't slowed as I get ready for the upcoming Convention Centre Signatures Handmade Market Winnipeg Nov 24th - 27th. This will be another big one and I am soooo looking forward to it. Now that I kind of remember what it was like (thanks to Vancouver Christmas Market) and kind of know what to expect (thanks to Scattered Seeds), I can put my...
August is here in all of it's glory!
Hi to all! Just a quick time to touch base and give you all my updates for August. Sorry for being a smidge late....life is hectic. Thank you all for your support online and at my wholesale shops and in person at Arnes Farmer's Market! It means so very much to me and you probably get tired of hearing me say it....but it's TRUE! I appreciate all of you! I am busy planning and making for upcoming market days as well as the Scattered Seeds show in October 2022. I unfortunately won't make it out to Vancouver this Christmas but...