We Do It By Hand

I recently came across this old picture – I can tell it’s old because the Vanilla-Cardamom label on the lollipop bag has a charcoal background with orange text. Those colors are reversed in our current labeling, for greater readability contrast :-)

photo by Kevin Keeker

Those are my (gloved) hands, sliding the bottom of the bag open and slipping the lollipop inside. After I bag all of the lollipops in the batch, I wrap a thick silver foil band around their necks to hold the bags closed. After all this time, I’m still wildly in love with how special and pretty our candy looks when it’s all finished:

photo by Kevin Keeker