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Hello friends! February has flown by with all the activities and planning going on here on Salt Spring Island.   And Daylight Savings Sunday is already upon us!!  The schedule here is usually something to the tune of January is for dreaming, February is for planning those dreams and then March is for putting it into action or at least getting started.  Of course, the larger picture dream doesn't happen right away but small steps that are now being implemented are taking us in that direction and it's really quite exciting.  It's a good journey to be on.  It's definitely not...

Happy last week of January! I've been busy planning and organizing supplies and stock and have decided to clear out some large Aurora candles that I just have a little too much stock of.  It's all part of the organizing and building stock for the 2024 season that has me looking at these few left overs and thinking to myself that I'd rather that you got to enjoy them.  So I'm doing a spend $100 and get a free large candle of my choice for you promo.  You will notice the difference in coloring of these candles as the color...

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...

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...

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...