Hockey Wednesday: Stanley Cup Edition

I’ll be making lollipops today and hoping to get out of the kitchen in time for some or all of game 6.

GO FLYERS!!!!!!!!

Where To Buy Some Charming Candy

Readers of this blog are no doubt aware of This Charming Candy’s Etsy store. Our mission to bring gorgeous and delicious hard candy to the world has taken an important step forward. We’re humbled, honored and excited to announce that the citizens of

• Issaquah, WA
• Seattle, WA
• Beacon, NY and
• Eastsound, WA

now also have the opportunity to buy lollipops in a local store! Respectively:

• X Marks the Tot
• Cakespy
• Gourmetibles
• Boheme

We’ll post a little bit about each store in the coming days.

photo by Kevin Keeker

What Is Cardamom?

Susan and I both have a soft spot for our Vanilla-Cardamom lollipops. They're fragrant and have a wonderfully complex flavor.

But we also occasionally get asked: what is cardamom? Our best answer is: when you eat Indian food, you know those green pods that are mixed in with the rice? Those are cardamom pods. Their flavor combined with vanilla and the sweet sugar is delicious.

Bulk Discount Prices

Do you need a LOT of lollipops -- more than 100 -- for an event, like a wedding or birthday party, or a bunch of office gifts? We offer bulk discount pricing on our current selection of lollipops. Email us to find out more.

We're New at This

Susan and I spend a fair bit of time thinking about risks: what are the risks to our fledgling company? What can we do to minimize those risks? One of our biggest risks that we face is: we've never run a company before.

Neither of us was the kind of kid who had a summer business mowing lawns or started a small web design firm in their dorm room. I'll admit to having an occasional lemonade stand and a fondness for counting money, but that's about it. So we knew going into this that we'd make mistakes, and that had to be ok as long as we learned from them.

This has led to one of our core company mottos: Tomorrow is an opportunity to be less incompetent that we were today. Today I will not blindly copy an invoice to only update the address and not the order. Today, I will get through all of my email. Today, I will look for more ways to prevent making mistakes tomorrow.

We've got good heads on our shoulders. This is a risk that we minimize by learning as fast as we can.

Weddings!

It's the first of June today, and that means it's the traditional beginning of wedding season. We're working with a couple of brides to create custom lollipops to match the color of their weddings. We love playing with color! The picture above shows just some of the lovely colors that our lollipops come in, and we have lots more in little bottles in the kitchen.

If you want lollipops in a custom color for your wedding or any other event, contact us. We'd love to talk to you about it!