Latest Stockist: Pleasant Plains Workshop

Helloooo Petworth! You can now find Handmade Habitat soy candles and lovelies at Pleasant Plains Workshop right across from Howard University! 

Summer Candles for Beltway Vintage

I always love a collaboration, especially when it's with Lisa of Beltway Vintage. When she goes hunting for amazing vintage clothes, she also picks up some vintage containers for me to fill with soy candle goodness. These babies are ripe for the summer pickin', scented with grapefruit and citronella - perfect warm weather fun.

New Stockist: Trohv

I'm super excited to share that you can now see my collection of soy candles, soy-beeswax blend candles, solid perfumes, eye pillows, sachets and sassy matchbooks at Trohv in Takoma, DC! 

New Stockist: Willow Street Yoga

This year, I took up a work-study position at Willow Street Yoga where I work their front desk in exchange for yoga classes. Can I just say- BEST TRADE EVER! Especially for someone like me who rarely leaves the house or gets to interact with real people during work hours. Just those fake people on Twitter (jkjk!), so this was a golden opportunity for me to get dressed, get out of the house and clear my head from my work for a little bit.

At WSY I get to hang out with super cool people, get to meet the people of my neighborhood and do cool things like wrap books for display props.

They were interested in carrying my candles there, but were looking for something a little different. So for WSY, you can find my holiday scented candles in tins, wrapped in the pages of the Bhagavad-Gita. Just perfectly appropriate and literally no where else will you find these babies.

So for all the yogis in your life - be sure to stop by Willow Street Yoga in Takoma Park or Silver Spring before these candles sell out!

Meet Peg Leg Vintage: Latest Handmade Habitat Stockist!

Meet Peg Leg Vintage - the latest awesome local shop stocking my goods! They are a home goods store in College Park carrying the finest vintage furniture that I've seen. It's like stepping inside of Mad Men. They also carry original art, and now - my candle tins wrapped in book papers along with some of my most popular matches.

And check out these vintage brooches turned into magnets. The lovely couple - Chad and Chrissy - that own the store get them from their kid neighbor that makes and sells them. 

This place is to die for - they've got it all: vintage knick knacks, reasonable prices and oh yes, taxidermy! 

After living in College Park for four years, I'm super bummed they just now opened up after I've moved and graduated from there, but this is an amazing development for the neighborhood. College Park has so much potential and not much follow through. It's amazing to see a great store like this open up and thrive there.

So if not for the candles, you'll want to head over there to spruce up your place. Don Draper wants you to get rid of the Ikea and get on with the midcentury modern - America's best period of furniture. Any objections?

Candles for Beltway Vintage

This past week was full of special projects. One of my favorite by far were some soy candles in vintage containers for Beltway Vintage at Analog! 

Yes, old glass teacups filled with cinnamon orange clove goodness and vintage Noxema containers filled with lavender vanilla!

Plus I got to pop-up in there on Saturday. I've been there twice in the last week and come out with three new things - a new (to me) vintage wool dress coat, a new (to me) vintage silk Liz Claiborne dress and a new Marion Barry print (Mayor4Life). That place is where my impulse buying goes to thrive. Fotos coming soon of these amazing purchases.

I also made them some vintage paper matchbooks with some of Melissa of Craftgasm's paper scraps - I love the ledger paper!

And for the holidays, you can shop my soy candles in tins there as well! Covered in the pages of Pride and Prejudice. A perfect holiday gift for your Jane Austen friends. 

New Shop: The Robin's Nest

I'm in a new shop! A few months ago I met the lively and amazing Robin of The Robin's Nest at the Grant Avenue Market in Takoma Park. Robin has a sophisticated vintage and handmade shop within the renovated old barn - Chartreuse and Co. - in Frederick, Maryland. I got to take a trip out to the barn a few weeks ago to drop off lots of matchbooks for her and I was BLOWN AWAY! It was like stepping inside of Anthropologie's suppliers.

The space consists of a few vintage buildings - the barn is the main part but outside is a little garden house, a patio and a few other old timey buildings.

The barn is two stories - here's the upstairs. I felt like I had died and gone to heaven in this space.

Basically, the barn works like this - it holds space for multiple brands / shops and is stocked to the ceilings with vintage and handmade treasures - all extremely reasonably priced. I joked with some of my crafty friends on Twitter that we should take a big empty Enterprise van up there on a trip and everyone can buy their own chair for the ride home. There is some seriously amazing stuff up there.

I snapped this photo for my friends that just opened a new shop - this is totally up their alley. They're a vintage stationary, map and clothing shop in DC - Analog. If you love this space, you'll love their shop too.

This display made me want to curl up and live in it. Got mad booth and display inspiration while  I was there.

So you can now find my matches and more to come at The Robin's Nest in Chartreuse and Co. at 4007 Buckeystown Pike, Frederick MD 21704. They are open the third weekend of each month so September 21 - go check it out! And stop by the Robin's Nest for some matches and awesome books --

I've got to get a B, A, &, R (Yes she does have the ampersand too!!)