The Journal

Craft

Small-batch candlemaking

Place

Knoxville & East Tennessee

Makers

Regional artisans & craftspeople

Notes

Correspondence
Reading a Candle- What to Look for Before You Light It
Reading a Candle- What to Look for Before You Light It
Step into a local shop or find yourself scrolling online, shelves lined with glass and wax. Each candle seems to whisper—warmth, comfort, the hush of lavender fields, coffee brewing on... Read more...
Studio Companions
Hero weighs fifty pounds and his tail clears a work table at exactly the wrong height. This matters when you're pouring hot wax six hours a day. It mattered more before I reorganized the studio around the reality that I don't work alone. Cooling racks moved to upper shelves. Fragrance bottles relocated to closed cabinets. The pour station now sits against the far wall where there's clearance for a dog who doesn't always remember his tail is attached to his body. He's a pit bull terrier, or pitty, which means... Read more...
Styling Candles Throughout Your Home
Styling Candles Throughout Your Home
Candles are too often relegated to the periphery—a flicker tucked into a shadowed alcove, a cluster forgotten on a side table. Yet, when chosen with care, a candle becomes more... Read more...
How to Make Your Candles Last Longer: Care Tips
How to Make Your Candles Last Longer: Care Tips
A candle, when tended with quiet attention, rewards you—its flame steady as twilight deepens, its scent pooling in the corners of the room. The rituals that follow are less instruction... Read more...
Understanding Scent Throw: What Makes a Great Candle
Understanding Scent Throw: What Makes a Great Candle
Three hours in, the candle's flame holds steady—a small, unwavering eye. The room is quiet except for the hum of the air conditioner. The wax, translucent as a peeled grape,... Read more...
Why We Crave Cozy Scents in Winter
Why We Crave Cozy Scents in Winter
The first cold snap arrives, and suddenly you’re reaching for candles you ignored all summer—scents like cypress and fir, evergreen and cedar, touched with amber and a hint of lemon... Read more...
Behind the Scenes: How We Hand-Pour Each Candle
Behind the Scenes: How We Hand-Pour Each Candle
The wax arrives in dense blocks, pale as winter butter. Before anything else, there's the scale—digital, precise, measuring what will become twenty candles or thirty, never hundreds. The numbers matter.... Read more...