09/01/2026
Apparently, candle making really does run in the family. 🕯️🤍
My mom started Little White Bird Candle Co. in 2014. Years later, she passed the business on to me, and I’ve been lucky enough to continue what she started and make it my own.
But recently, while researching my Feilberg family history, I discovered something neither of us ever knew.
More than 200 years ago, Henning Frederik Feilberg was a wax-candle manufacturer in Denmark.
And the connection didn’t end with him.
His son, Carl Adolph Feilberg, followed in the industry. In 1842, he established Falkonergårdens Fabrikker at Falkonergården in Frederiksberg, Denmark, where candles and soap were manufactured.
So, generations before Little White Bird ever existed, there was already a father and son in the Feilberg family making candles.
And generations later, without knowing any of this history, my mom started a candle company of her own — and eventually passed it down to her daughter.
There’s something so special about discovering a thread in your family story that you never knew you were carrying.
From Henning and Carl Adolph making candles in Denmark, to my mom beginning Little White Bird in Manitoba in 2014, to me carrying her business forward today…
Maybe some things really do find their way through the generations. 🕯️
Little White Bird Candle Co. — apparently, candle making has been in the family longer than we ever knew. 🤍