(COLORADO SPRINGS) — If you’ve walked into a local market and followed your nose to something warm, woodsy, or fresh — chances are you’ve found FFO Goods.
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Husband-and-wife team Nick and Brandi Haskins joined Loving Living Local’s Krista Witiak and Justin Antweil to share how their Colorado Springs-based business, Far From Ordinary (FFO) Goods, is creating hand-poured, refillable candles in handmade concrete vessels — plus a growing line of natural body products and home scents.
What started as curiosity sparked by their media work turned into a full creative business.
“We have a media company, and we kept seeing all these products come through. Eventually, we thought, ‘What’s the hardest, most finicky product we could make?’ And we landed on candles,” said Nick. “But at the core, we’re just makers — we like to create.”
Each candle is hand-poured into a custom concrete vessel that the couple designs and makes themselves. They’re also refillable, making them both eco-friendly and cost-effective.
“Once your candle burns down, you just buy a new insert and drop it in,” explained Nick. “No waste, no hassle.”…