hello.
I'm Sarah.

My mum's answer was to stay up with me and make things. Fuzzy felts, painting, pottery, candles — anything that would keep me busy until it got light. And eating a lot of apples.

My dad called me Sarah Two Trees. It started as a bit of wordplay from Sarah Louise to Sarah Two Trees, and it just stuck.

I went on to study product design, photography and Fine Art, eventually completing a BA and an MA, before starting a studio called Two Tree Designs. A couple of businesses later I started pouring candles at home, and Two Tree Designs became house of two trees.

It's still just me. I design everything, pour the candles, cure them, label them, box them and take them to the post office. Batches are small because there's only one pair of hands, so it works in drops a few times a year rather than having everything permanently sitting on a shelf.

When something sells out, it has actually sold out. I like it that way.

Candles are made for the end of the day — the slowing down bit, when everything else is done. And the end of the day has always been the part I'm most awake for. That's probably not a coincidence.