Honey Grahams

Meghan Graham loves candles. She always has them burning all over her home and, she was a frequent shopper at local candle sellers until late last year.

One night while she was sleeping, her husband decided to order candle making supplies. As the items started rolling in, Meghan began to question him. He admitted he thought it would be a good hobby for the couple and they started playing around with making their own candles. After a few rounds of trial and error, they found formulas that worked and she started listing them for sale on her personal Facebook page, then set up a business page and things took off from there.

“What started as a hobby has turned into a small business,” Meghan said.

In addition to ordering the supplies, her husband came up with the name of the business, Honey Grahams, as a play off their last name.

Through the process of learning to make her own candles and research, Meghan learned that

// Continued on Page 10 //

// Continued from Page 8 // she had not been handling her candles in the best ways. She found that you were supposed to trim your wicks after every burn, never burn a candle longer than four hours and choose the right sized candle for the space–using larger, multiple-wick candles for more scent perfusion in larger space. She tries to share her information with customers as she learns more about the candles she loves.

Currently, Honey Grahams candles and car air fresheners are sold on their Facebook page, at Ace of the South, KS Boutique and Blue Lotus. She has even created a signature fragrance for Ace of the South, named “Ace of the South,” and featuring the owner’s dog, Ace, on the label. The scent combination is a secret, but Meghan describes it as “amazing.”

Currently, Meghan is getting her fall scents ready and experimenting with some signature fragrances.

“Fall is my favorite time of year, so I have a ton of things planned for fall and Halloween,” Meghan said. She is selling dough-bowl candles in the shape of the state of Alabama, pumpkins and footballs already and has 16-oz skull jars in her basement, waiting for Halloween.

The fall scents will be available on her Facebook page soon, but don’t be surprised if the names are a little different.

“We love country music and television shows so a lot of our candles are named after songs,” Meghan said.

The company’s butterscotch and bourbon scented candle is named “Whiskey Glasses,” the “Train Station” candles are billed as being how popular “Yellowstone” character, Rip Wheeler smells, while “Cover Me Up” is a clean, cotton scent.

“The candles are named around us–what we love and what we do,” Meghan explained. “For 4th of July, my 6 year old was born on Memorial Day and his favorite thing in the world is Bomb Pops. I have an oil called “Firecracker Ice” and he wanted it to be his candle. We named it ‘Jase is the Bomb.’”

They have fun with the names, but Meghan doesn’t play around about the candles and scents that she produces. The candle’s smell and potency or “hot throw” as she says it is called in the industry is the most important thing.

“I want you to walk in and be like ‘Wow! What is that?’” Meghan said.