Childhood birthday celebration.
OCTOBER 2026

004 · Vanilla Sponge, Buttercream, Wishes

October is a good month in our house, with birthdays at both ends.

This one takes us back to childhood birthdays, and all the things that make October taste like October to us.

Tastes like 2000. Best enjoyed in 2026, around 4pm on a grey Sunday afternoon.

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Ditchling 004 Vanilla Sponge, Buttercream, Wishes candle on a childhood birthday party plate.
The Ditchling Meeting House, a large red-brick country house with white-framed windows, a paved front path, grassy lawn, garden benches, and a few gravestones in a small graveyard in the foreground under a blue sky.

Where the makers work

Ditchling has been a village of makers for centuries. We pour from the middle of it.

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Bird’s-eye view of the Ditchling candle-making workspace, showing a wax melter filled with soy wax, scales, mixing bowls, jugs, fragrance bottles and candle-making tools laid out across the workbench.

From the workshop

Thoughts, findings and notes from the workshop, talking all things candles, materials, scents and vessels.

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