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Faces of the Farmer’s Market: Joel and Susan Joseph

Joel and Susan Joseph sell candles as well as provide a hands on experience in their store, Rock Creek Candle Company.
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Olivia Lauter
Joel and Susan Joseph stand behind their candles displayed for customers. Their storefront is in the Fairview Town Center.

Behind the generic Fairview JcPenney sits a store. Outside that store, the serif lettered sign reads, “Rock Creek Candle Company,” and inside that store reads the story of Joel and Susan Joseph. 

After the passing of her mother, Susan made a trip to St. Louis to be with her family. From there, Susan and her family members needed something to distract them from their recent loss. They stumbled upon a candle store, which unknown to them at the time, would become a life-long business and passion. 

Scents including autumn leaves, butternut pumpkin, and caramel apple are displayed for customers to sample. At Rocky Creek Candle Company, customers can create their own custom candle scent. (Olivia Lauter)

When she came back home to Texas, she brought the idea with her. 

“I loved the concept so much that I came back to Texas and opened a store,” Susan said. 

Susan now works alongside her husband Joel at their candle store, which they founded two years ago. Quickly reciting off facts, Joel explains the over forty types of containers, and the one hundred fragrances, all there to recreate a memory for the customers. 

“The fun thing is when people come to the store to make the candles, they walk down a wall of fragrances and start smelling,” Joel said “It never fails that they smell something that reminds them of a fun memory, and then they spend the next half hour trying to recreate that exact smell to capture the memory that they’re trying to remember.”

From their father’s old Mercedes, to the beaches of Hawaii, Joel and Susan have seen many memories recreated right before their eyes. But, being a hands-on store, the pandemic has made it “very difficult,” but they will “be alright,” according to Joel.

Growing up in the area, Joel and Susan now enjoy using their company as a way to give back to their hometown. 

“This is our hometown, small family business,” Joel said.

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Parker Post, Editor-In-Chief
Parker Post is skipping into her senior year and third year on staff with a whole lot of excitement and an equal amount of fear of peaking in high school, both a result of her need to make this year her best one yet. Post loves all things pink and sparkly and spends every second with her five best friends (shoutout to "My Friends ring emoji").  Throughout her years of high school, she has mastered power naps, talking an ear off, and creating hundreds of unfinished projects that have all now extended their deadline to “at some point in my life”. She looks forward to continuing the power duo in working alongside the UIL state writing princess, don’t fact check that, Lindsey Hughes as the Editors-In-Chief and leaving their legacy behind in their final year on staff.
Olivia Lauter, Section Editor
Heading into her fourth and final year in TRL, senior Olivia Lauter could not be more thrilled to soak up every last minute of shooting sports, events and portraits for her favorite publication. Lauter has spent every day of her high school career with a camera around her neck, and you won’t catch her without it until graduation day. As well as being the photo editor for TRL, Lauter is a varsity cheerleader and involved in PALS and NHS. When she’s not on the sidelines with her camera or cheering on the Leopards, Lauter is with her friends, who she adores more than life itself. You will probably hear “last time, best time” and how “bittersweet” senior year is continually from Lauter this year, but she is just excited to spend one more year doing what she loves alongside the people she loves on TRL.

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