no hearts in these new candles, but lots of love
i know we're already well into february, but happy new year! january is not a month when people normally buy candles; it's a well-deserved break for not only holiday shoppers, but many of us who make and sell gifts. it would be totally reasonable to assume that i'm back with a valentine's day collection, but i'm not. i did make candles, though, but to celebrate some more personal february milestones. here's the february release:
"lavender smoke"
i did a very small run of these over the holidays and have been asked to bring them back, which is my pleasure. this is a moody and smoky lavender-scented candle that comes in a beautiful periwinkle glass. i don't like making candles in glass, but these glasses are dead stock so i jumped at the chance to use them before they went away forever. and now you can have a glass, too, by getting one of these.
for this release, the candles will ship in a Luxurious Cardboard Tube. i hope the receiver of the candle gets good reuse of it - it's a great, sturdy container worthy of such a pretty glass.
"somewhere green""
like i said before, i don't like making candles in glass, so instead of making more of my well-praised green hex candles i made a sculpture worthy of this custom fragrance blend. it smells like the color green: pine, freshly cut grass, green leaves, and comes in a 2-tiered pillar candle with a sorta terrazzo tile style. this may be the greenest candle to ever smell this green, i would love to be proven otherwise.
also in the shop
- bugs rock core, aka the "classics", are continuously available! touching grass, the 3-tier unscented pillar, has 4 sky color options. nice tomato is also back with the same fresh fragrance and a small change to the colorway. and nothing has changed about the eggs because they're already perfect.
- under "vintage" i've got some original watercolors from the debossed pixel art collection left over. shipping on these are free.
february brings the one year anniversary of me registering bugs rock llc, my commitment to myself (and i guess the state of new jersey or whatever) to launching this business. my birthday is also in february, so it feels like my new years - everything from that point forward feels like a crisp clean sheet of paper. while january is a slow month as far as sales go, i got a lot of brainstorming on not just products, but how i want to do releases going forward. these two candles are my way officially pivoting away from holidays and more towards a predictable r&d and launch schedule. they would absolutely make great valentine's day gifts, of course.
xoxo your smelly valentine, jenn