Chapel and Claw

01/09/2026

Our new quality inspector approves of our Ren Faire preparations. Nari agrees The Impaler is one of the best scents at Chapel & Claw!

(other than Exiled of course, the guy on that looks like him and has the same name. Curious and curiouser...)

What scent are you most excited to experience at the Ren Faire?

10/08/2026

03/08/2026

🕯️ THE WAX MELTS HAVE ARRIVED 🕯️

Every scent we make starts as a story where folklore and myth have been distilled into something you can hold, burn, and simply lose yourself in. Now that same obsession with detail comes in wax melt form, so you can wander through Beasts of Ruin, Haunted Hearts, and False Idols before ever committing to a full candle.

Each collection carries its own world: the feral pull of the storm, the ache of a haunted romance, the seduction of something worshipped a little too closely. Nothing here is accidental, every single note is chosen to pull you somewhere else entirely.

This is scent as storytelling. Come get lost in it. 🌈🕸️

Shop the full range — link in bio.

08/06/2026

Happy Pride from Chapel & Claw! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

To be honest, as someone who spent years in marketing, I used to find the annual rainbow logo swap a quite bit hollow. The "LGBT sandwich" energy. (That was a real sandwich. It did taste half-decent tho.)

Fortunately, I got to be part of my old companies Inclusion Board where they conducted real conversations from people in the community, particularly older LGBTQ+ people who grew up in a world that told them they were wrong to exist. People who said that seeing a rainbow in a shop window, on a profile picture, on a sign, even a small one, made them feel seen in places that had never seen them before. That was something that always stuck and mattered to me. It didn’t matter if maybe I found it a little cringe, because it meant the world to others. And when I started building Chapel & Claw, something I wanted from the start was for this to be a space where everyone is welcome.

I had a few sleepless nights redesigning the logo to capture the Pride with many quite frankly crappy attempts, (as someone who loves dark things and grew up as the emo scene kid, I definitely subscribe to 's emo want to appropriate the straight pride flag), but here is the one I ended up settling on with inspiration from the amazing album.

Pride has never been just some random party; it is a protest and a promise to those that love will always win in the end. You have every right to exist.

Swipe for some of the organisations doing real work for real people, and ways to support them even if your budget is tight right now. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷🤍🩵🤎🖤

31/05/2026

Something is coming. A new era is almost here, full of colour and a little bit of magic. ✨

Can you guess what's melting its way into the shop very soon?

29/05/2026

Wabi-sabi is a Japanese philosophy all about the acceptance of imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness, rather than chasing flawless beauty, it finds meaning in the worn, the asymmetrical, or even the unfinished, suggesting that imperfections are not failures to hide, but reminders that something is real

In a world obsessed with polish and the rise of AI, this is something I choose to live by

For years, I was riddled with imposter syndrome, that me and my art was not good enough to be seen by anyone, spending years trying to smooth out every rough edge of yourself is utterly exhausting, as someone who has been accustomed to masking for a majority of my life, chasing impossible standards of perfection was a constant and my artwork was another victim of that

But I realised my art being imperfect is what made it unapologetically me, it shows my journey in creating something I'm proud of, even if my younger self with shudder at the idea of showing it off, but I do hope she's even more proud of ne becoming my own boss and getting to draw all the time

Not everything beautiful was meant to be flawless, imperfection is what makes you fall in love with life

*As always, no AI image was generated for the sake of this video, these were all sourced from good old Google
If I have mistakenly assumed your artwork was AI, I greatly apologise.