At the time though, I hadn’t any ambition to turn it into a full time business but life had little surprises in store for us. The 2008 recession hit my husband’s professional life hard and in 2013, we lost our house. It was at that time that I started selling my candles at local farmer’s markets in order to help support our family. Luckily, all the hard work I had put into them paid off and they were an instant hit. We were able to build a faithful local following, which made me thankful to have found a passion which could help sustain us. Then my husband got a job out of state and we were separated for three months as he had to get us settled in Florida while I stayed with our children in Tennessee.