ABOUT US

After enjoying our very first candle-making experience of mixing scents and creating a candle from scratch, an idea was sparked for us to work as a mother-daughter team to start a small business and Windham Wicks was born. At Windham Wicks, business culture is centered around and inspired by American values, Southern traditions, and most importantly focus on family. From the beginning, we have researched to find the best ingredients that are safe to use and allow us to create a high-quality product anchored by our belief that working hard and perseverance always pay off! We proudly and exclusively source 100% of our supplies and ingredients, all made and grown in the USA. This allows us to not only create a product that is eco-friendly and reusable, but also aesthetically pleasing and designed with our southern roots in mind. Many elements, such as oyster shells and antique cheese molds used for casting our concrete, are inspired by being raised in South Carolina and continue to influence our candle line, preserving the southern culture we are so proud of.

Our dedication to our craft has evolved to create a variety of unique concrete vessels, hand-poured candles, and DIY refill kits using 100% soy wax, custom-blended certified clean fragrances, and crackling wooden wicks. The opportunity we have to offer a special product for our customers to be used in their home or gifted to a loved one provides an experience, that when combined with notes of familiar scents, also creates memories.

  • Ava Jane is a creative, driven, and smart fifteen-year-old who has an old soul and loves to prove the world wrong. Her amazing digital design skills have been a huge asset to the growth of Windham Wicks and our new website. She designed our logo, website, labels, and all digital content. She keeps Windham Wicks in line with deadlines and tasks we need to complete and researches a lot about business best practices, digital content, and marketing.

  • Melissa is an entrepreneur at heart and loves the opportunity to create a business out of passion and purpose. This philosophy has driven her success in several businesses, all of which thrived because of her ability to think outside of the box, work creatively to do things just a little differently, and set her businesses apart from others in the same industry in a positive way. Windham Wicks was created with the freedom to combine creativity and hustle while involving her children in the process, all of which brings her the most happiness these days. Although she wears many hats in the business, as the CEO she: is constantly researching new ideas for product development, creates all of our concrete items, has perfected the formula for an amazing scented and beautifully burning candle, and seeks opportunities to partner with businesses and individuals who are aligned with the same integrity that our business wants to portray, worked to establish Windham Wicks as a credible business, shares all of the crazy stuff we come up with on social media, and does everything she can to take care of her family while growing Windham Wicks as a business and brand. She is so proud of what Windham Wicks has to offer and looks forward to what is to come with the growth of our family business!

  • Shane is our Chief Financial Officer, but also leads by example in how our business is run through character, integrity, honesty, and, hard work in his role as daddy and husband to our family. He funds and agrees to all of our crazy ideas and supports his family business in all the ways we need him to in everything we do and make.

 

Meet the Team

  • Amelia is an inventive and passionate twelve-year-old who thrives in an environment where we are creating new scents and products to add to our line. She is an expert at blending scents combining unexpected combinations that have become best sellers and favorites of customers. She has created most of our scents on her own and loves to come up with new blends from special requests. She nails it every time and amazes us with her ability to differentiate between fragrances and what works well together. This gift has become a huge asset to Windham Wicks in that we can truly offer scents not available elsewhere and customers love having distinct but special scents filling their homes.

  • Stone is our cute little helper and entertainer. He mainly plays with his trucks but is a smell tester on the side. He is always ready to smell new scents and tells us if it is “yummy”. He works in quality control as well, testing the durability and safety of our candles. He is always willing to be involved or play in packing peanuts if we let him!