Just after we were married back in 2007, we decided to simplify our lives and sell off most of our "stuff". We left our expensive southern California loft, and shacked up in an old (but newly self-renovated) Winnebago.

We have so many creative ideas and a zest for travel, and this new life would help us find time and resources for both. After a lengthy honeymoon, backpacking through Southeast Asia for four months, we returned stateside and began working on renovating our rolling home : )

We spent years traveling & living in "Miss Winnie" in various beach towns along the coast of Southern California, and we stayed open to what might be next.

We weren't planning on making candles, but sometimes life's adventures find you. One day, while we were exploring a new town we'd just moved to, we came upon a little beach cove that would change our lives.

While sifting out sea glass and playing with hermit crabs, juwels found an antique bottle washed up and half buried in the sand. And the very next day, that find inspired our Antique Bottle Shaped Candles : )

We weren't ready when etsy contacted us to do a Featured Seller interview, about two months after we opened our shop .. but how could we say no! What a rush! A whole month of orders, hundreds of them, flooding in during the 2 day interview : ) That piece of good luck sky rocketed our craft, and the rest is history. - https://blog.etsy.com/en/2011/featured-seller-pollenarts/

With the success of this interview, and the buzz of our new business steadily growing, we moved out of Los Angeles and up into the mountains of Arizona where we work & play full time w/ Pollen Arts. We now have a candle studio on land where we are able to adopt furry and feathered friends : ) We have a flock of beautiful chickens running around our yard, and we hike and camp with our two sweet nubian goats, chia & ezzie. Last year, our dream of becoming beekeepers came true and we now have about twenty hives : ) And the best news yet is that we just had our first baby girl !!! Life is grand !!

You can read more on our blog - https://thewinnebagodiaries.blogspot.com/

On our instagram - https://instagram.com/pollenarts/

And facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pollenarts

Oh .. and here's a bio video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBktGr_Derk

Can't wait to connect with you !!

loVe,
p&j