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New on the bench: candles and painted totes

Alongside the planters, two new things — candles poured into small painted pots, and cotton totes with a little painting on each.

A cotton tote painted with trailing leaves down both sides

The planters will always come first, but the bench has been getting crowded with smaller things.

Candles

The pots are the same concrete as the planters, just smaller, and each one gets a single painted leaf or animal. Some are scented, some are not — the unscented ones are for anyone who would rather a candle just be a candle.

A candle in a small concrete pot painted with a fern
Fern Frond, before its lid

Tote bags

Plain cotton, painted by hand — never the whole bag. A frame of leaves down the sides, or one small animal in a corner, so it still goes with everything.

Every one is painted freehand, so no two are quite the same.

Both are on the shelf now.

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