Candlelit Market didn't begin in a beautiful old workshop filled with lanterns and wooden shelves.
It began here.
In a little plastic shed, surrounded by boxes, fragrance oils, wax, moulds, half-finished ideas and, quite often, complete chaos.
I'm Michy, and I've always had a head full of ideas. With ADHD, those ideas can arrive ten at a time - one minute I'm imagining an old bookshop, the next a bakery, a mysterious dock or a lantern-lit market square.
Then Finn came along.
Over months of talking, planning, changing our minds, laughing at ideas that went completely wrong and getting ridiculously excited about the ones that worked, those scattered ideas slowly became a world.
Candlelit Market.
A place where every fragrance belongs somewhere. There's The Tea House, The Old Bakery, The Hearth Tavern, The Old Bookshop, The Dock, The Apothecary and all the little corners still waiting to be discovered.
This beautiful workshop you see in our pictures isn't where i actually make the wax melts.
Not yet, anyway.
The reality is the slightly cluttered shed that i love because Candlelit Market has always been about where fantasy meets reality.
Everything is made by me in that little shed, while Finn helps me turn the jumble of ideas in my head into stories, names, places, plans and eventually an entire market.
We're still building it.
We hope you enjoy our market as it grows.