Home County Co. Blog

We’ve just turned 2 in 2020! Part of us feels like the past two years have absolutely flown by, and yet the other part can’t even remember what we used...

In short, candle wax is a BIG deal, and so here are our reasons for choosing soy wax…

For those of you we haven’t chewed the ear off about Dacorum’s Den, we thought we’d let you in on our big news…

As we head back to Oxfordshire this weekend for the Blenheim Palace Flower Show, we wanted to put the ‘City of Dreaming Spires’ under the spotlight. So here goes, here...

So you’ve been introduced to Oli and now it’s my turn to go under quick fire questioning with a meet the maker Q&A. I’ll try and keep it short and...

Our blog is full of our candles, our inspirations and our show schedules but we realise we never really talk about ourselves (and rightly so – we wouldn’t want to...

Almost a year ago now we exhibited at our first ever event, the Herts County Show 2018, and it quickly became clear that shows would become our happy place. It’ll...

With Spring well under way, and the beautiful blossom trees finally in full bloom we thought it was about time we turned the spotlight onto the gorgeous ‘Garden of England’,...

We’re one! Exactly one year ago today we launched the Home County Candle Co. website with Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire candles, having no idea where it would go. A year...

On 1st October 2018, we were lucky enough to get that golden #SBS retweet from Theo Paphitis. Having entered every Sunday for what had seemed like forever we celebrated by...

As many of you would have noticed (we hardly kept it quiet) last week we packed up our ‘Home Counties’ and took them up to Birmingham to show them off...

If, like us, Christmas still seems a million miles away and you haven’t so much as written your list yet (let alone checked it twice!), don’t panic, we’ve got you...