By Candice Smiley
As soon as Carol starts talking about her store you can hear her passion through the phone.
“ We celebrated 30 years of
being in Edmonton this year”, she says and I can hear her smile. “When we started, with six jars of candy on the counter and two cabinets of chocolates, ” she pauses for effect. “ And now over a thousand different kinds of candy, four hundred jars of product and cabinets of chocolates! ” I’ve been inside her store on High Street in Edmonton, and I love it! There is such a unique feel and so many candies to choose from. It makes
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me nostalgic for a time that was simpler than the one that we live in now.
I was intrigued and so I had to ask her how she got started; and surprisingly her story starts in Swan Hills and not Edmonton. Carol shared that it all started in the little town with a population of about 4000 people, with nothing for the women to do but make crafts. Making crafts required supplies, so she brought in craft supplies and opened a “craft
