Photo by: Anthony Garcia Akron Lights Candle Co. AKRON, Ohio — An Akron small business owner is running her company and raising her daughter, as a stay at home mom, insider her Akron home. Being a parent is a lot of trial and error, seeing what works for you and your family. For Kimberly Ochsenbein’s family, what works best is staying at home with their 3-year-old daughter Gracie. Ochsenbein knew she wanted to stay at home with Grace when she was born. “I was just trying to figure out what I could do to stay home with my daughter,” she said. She said she has always been resourceful and crafty but it was only when she realized she could make a business out of something she loved: candles. 3 years ago, she started researching how to make her own candles. “All day, every day, all night. It was nonstop,” she said. “I’m trying to figure out how to get the waxes, oils, wicks like learning different kinds of wicks, all of it. "I brought the idea to my husband and I’m like ‘I really want to try to do this,’” she said. She began experimenting, trial and error in […]
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