Hazel Baby

Hello friends! Have you missed us? We've missed you!!We have had a lot of exciting things going on that will be coming up in the blog. More importantly We have a special guest feature for you today!! Cue- rejoicing and partying.

It's our pleasure to introduce our dear friend Sarah and her company

  Hazel Baby Soy Candles

Hazel Baby started not long after I had my daughter. I have always been a little creative, with a background in floristry, and after buying a beautiful candle from a local market one weekend i thought 'I could do this"! At the same market I bought some prints from a local designer which led to the idea of the typographic labels. I ended up contacting her and was lucky enough that she was someone who totally understood my vision and was able to create the branding for my label perfectly. 

At the beginning I jumped head first into everything! I am not the kind of girl to do things by halves... I had the branding, fragrances and packaging sorted before I'd even made a candle, I mean how hard could it be right? Wrong! I cannot even begin to tell you how many hours I spent making candles that turned out to be duds, so much time, effort and wax down the drain! I had completed a course in candle making but was taught with completely different wax than I intended on using. So many times I was ready to pack it all in but eventually I found an amazing lady online who was willing to tirelessly answer all my frantic emails and cries for help and after a very long road I finally started to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

After almost a year I am finally starting to find my footing in small business. It's hard juggling family, candles plus my day job but the satisfaction I get from what I do makes me so proud and happy. I draw inspiration from a lot of accounts on IG and I'm especially drawn to some amazing local artists like Yoko Home, Mogan Connoley and Harley Quinn and co. I love colour and typography and would give my write arm to be a great artist!

Pacho is well known for his infamous head tilt

Most of you know me as Hazel and Pacho's mama, and that job is still the most important one I have, but hopefully sometime down the track Hazel Baby soy candles will be successful enough so that I get to spend more time at home with my babies, that is definitely my long term goal. Pacho is still my number one boy even though I'm not able to spend as much time on his account as I would like to and as I used to. Many people told us when I was pregnant that Pacho would take a backseat to the baby once it came along but they couldn't have been more wrong. It was a little hard at the start when Hazel first came as newborns do take up a lot of mum's time but we made sure to still include Pacho as much as possible and tried not to change too much of his routine (walks, palys and where he slept etc). Now Hazel's old enough to start playing with him and we're teaching her to be gentle with Pacho which she's learning really well. We think it's important not to encourage her to play rough with him. Even though Pacho doesn't have a mean bone in his body, we know that that's not the case with all dogs so we figure if Hazel learns that she is to be careful with him, then she will learn to do the same with all animals. They really are gorgeous to watch together and I feel so blessed to have such wonderful kids and an amazing and supportive husband who's support I couldn't do any of this without.