About This Charming Candy

Everyone deserves a 10-minute treat. Including – make that, especially – adults.

Kate and Susan, the founders of This Charming Candy, love watching people smile when they taste our handmade lollipops. Maybe it’s because our flavors are a little more sophisticated than what’s available from mass-production candy makers. Maybe it’s the way lollipops recall a more playful time in our lives. All we know is that we’re on a mission to bring a little charm to your day in the form of sugar-on-a-stick, and it seems to be working.

Kate and Susan have been friends for over 10 years and have so much in common it’s scary. We’ve both been mathematicians, librarians, and have escaped from corporate life in big high-technology companies before deciding to go into business together. We both love to cook, so it’s no surprise to our families and friends that we’d choose to do something culinary.

But really, we swear we aren’t the same person.

Kate lives in Silicon Valley, but she left her heart in Seattle. When she’s not obsessing over food and lollipops she reads loads of books, trains for a half-marathon, raises her small child with her husband, and occasionally finds time to update her blog (though that happens less and less lately).

Susan and her husband live in and love Seattle. She can frequently be found going to hear local and non-local independent bands in her favorite clubs, and cheering the Rat City Roller Girls to victory. In her vanishing spare time, she aspires to co-publish an original card game with a friend.