6 August 15, 2013
Sutol: New store to focus on candles, jewelry, accessories from page two
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working at 8 Petals for the past three months. She moved to the area to start school at the Blue Ridge School of Massage and Yoga. She believes the new location will be beneficial for Sotul and its handcrafted, locally-made wares. “I think it’ll help to be back there with the farmers market,” Folcik said. Ellen Stewart, the market director of the Blacksburg Farmers Market agrees that the farmers market may benefit the new store. “There’s a lot of potential in the famer’s market base,” said
Stewart. “Since we’ve opened up our own storefront, we have had a good flow of people coming through all throughout the week, not just when the actual market is open on Wednesdays and Saturdays. (Sotul) would probably be of interest to the people who come to the farmers market.” Going from selling high-end women’s clothing to handmade candles and jewelry is quite a shift on the retail spectrum. Cranwell explained that although she enjoyed owning 8 Petals, she just didn’t feel right selling the expensive clothing. The candle making is meaningful to her, and it brings her
a lot of fulfillment. She hopes that her candles and other handcrafted wares will bring the same happiness to her customers that they do to her. “Women loved (the clothing) and they bought them, but then they’d worry about how much money they had just spent,” Cranwell said. “At Sutol, I want people to feel great when they leave. I want them to come in and buy things that enrich them, not something that will leave them struggling with the purchase. A little bit of love goes into each of those candles. It’s fulfilling for me, and I hope it will be for the people who buy them.”
weekend event on the go: Women’s Wellness Weekend BY RACHEL FRANKS | sports editor The Mountain Lake Lodge is holding their fourth annual Women’s Wellness Weekend to raise money for breast cancer from August 16-18. The weekend event is for women of all ages and costs $279 per person, which includes two nights lodging, all meals and activities. Ten percent of profits will go to Virginia’s Breast Cancer Society. The outdoor activities include yoga by candlelight, a sunrise hike and meditation, Zumba, bird watching, kayaking or tubing on the New River, a guided naturalist hike and mountain biking. Other enjoyable activities are wine tasting, a cooking and nutrition session with Chef West, dancing, and a women’s circle around a bonfire. The lodge’s Mountain Lake Conservatory is in charge of the event. The conservatory’s manager, Jessica Coker, said the weekend was created to help women bond through a healthcentered weekend. “It was the idea of a few female coworkers who wanted to hold a weekend long program for women of all ages to come and bond together in the outdoors, Coker said. “We created the kind of program that we would want to go to.”
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