The Kandlers Table: 'My candles helped me deal with the trauma of ICU - now I'm selling them at farm shops and fairs'

But Natalie Deeley knows the trauma they can also evoke, having spent time in Intensive Care Units (ICU) with daughter Esmee.

Now her candles capture the happiest of dreams and imaginations, as a gift of escape to parents facing the same impossible pain.

The Kandlers Table has gone viral at farm shops and fairs, only growing in popularity.

"It didn't really start as a business," said the 45-year-old from Harrogate. "It started as a hobby, a way to keep my hands busy. We would take candles to parents whose children were in ICU.

"After something traumatic, you do go back to something that feels safe. Scent makes me feel safe. It is an emotional memory."

Ms Deeley and partner Craig have four children together aged 17, 15, 13, and 11. Their eldest, Esmee Duncan-Deeley, has epilepsy.

At the age of nine, her body became intolerant to the medication she needed and the family began preparing for end-of-life care.

It was traumatic, said Ms Deeley. Every day engulfed in impending panic. And then came a phone call from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), to say they could save her.

Esmee was lucky. With a lobectomy, doctors were able to remove part of her right frontal lobe. She still has challenges, but has learned to walk and talk again, and is now thriving at college.

There is still some trauma there. It was the smell of shampoo, long after Esmee recovered, that sent Ms Deeley straight back in time to that hospital room.

And so she started making candles. It was a way to ensure that parents facing similar in ICU knew that their heartache was seen.

The family delivered them to hospitals in Harrogate, Leeds and Sheffield, then selling them at a table top sale in a nearby church, or at little markets.

"It's grown and grown," said Ms Deeley. “It was a hobby, that helped me with the trauma of ICU. It kept my hands and my mind busy. It was a way to help me heal.

"I love the tempo of creating and making and then the finished product. And the pouring - I have great arm muscles now."

As a child, Ms Deeley can remember filling glass bottles with water and petals to deliver to her elderly neighbours.

Now it's soya wax, with cotton wicks, diffusers and the best fragrance oils with scents of fruits and florals, freshness or musk.

All of them are memories or dreams, such as Strawberry Farm, Midnight Hour, or Sunday Sorbet. Breakfast Under the Pergola is one she is yet to achieve.

And the family's home has become a hub to making as the enterprise only grows.

The Kandlers Table took top retail stand at last year's Great Yorkshire Show (GYS), was named 'outstanding retail trade stand' at Harrogate Flower Show, and is stocked at a growing number of farm shops and markets, including Fodder.

"I'm rolling with it,” said Ms Deeley. “I just want for parents to feel seen. Not everybody has this amazing outcome that we had.”

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