FAQS

• Your heirloom light is a hand-crafted and custom made creation. The flower drying process takes several weeks. Your flowers are then carefully designed and transformed into a beautiful Heirloom Light. There are also numerous finishing touches required before your Heirloom Light is then ready for packaging, packing and shipment to you.

• A 50% deposit is required to begin the drying process. The balance is due before the order is shipped or picked up. We accept all major credit cards, check or cash. 

• Our Flower Guide will help you determine how many flower heads we will need you to send us for the heirloom light size that you choose. Since flower heads can vary greatly in size, the numbers indicated in our Flower Guide were chosen to ensure that we will have ample flowers to create the most beautiful heirloom light(s) for you to enjoy for years to come. 

• Gerbera daisies, roses, lilies, carnations, calla lilies, irises and most flowers dry very well and look beautiful in the  lights.  

• Certain sunflowers (those with very large centers and short petals). gardenias, some orchids and extremely dense flowers such as magnolias, do not typically dry well.  (Also see pictures of suitable flowers on our website under Flower Preparation .)

• Because of price and quantities, one person, ordering for many family members, often selects our medium and small size heirloom light. Brides generally order for themselves, the mothers, and the wedding party. They usually order the large or Aristocrat sizes for themselves and the medium or small for the mothers or wedding party. Our oval and hexagon shapes are ordered more frequently than the round or square shapes. 

• If you would also like a personalized nameplate for your Heirloom Light(s), please click on the "NAMEPLATE" tab on our website for complete instructions.  

• We have created lights using quite a variety of memorabilia! Some of these examples are shown in the gallery section of our website. Shiny objects are not appropriate, as the wax will not adhere to the object. Also, if the size of the memorabilia is thicker than the heirloom light wall thickness, it will not work. (Generally, the item should be no more than ¼” thick.) We have made lights using cotton balls, soybeans, wheat, corn, herbs, and baby items, just to name a few. We have also made lights using school emblems that have been photocopied and emailed to us.  (See our gallery) 

• Yes, we often use silk flowers in the lights.  (Plastic flowers do not work.)  Keep in mind that there are many different dye lots used in silk flowers, so it is possible that some dyes may "bleed" into the wax.  It is rare that this happens, and when it does it usually does not detract from the beauty of the light. 

• The flowers that you send to us are photographed as soon as they arrive at our shop.  These pictures are kept on file for 3 months after your order has been shipped back to you.  We have no reason to use flowers other than those that you send to us.  Without your flowers, we can't create your custom heirloom lights.  

• See specific instructions on the "Flower Preparation/Shipping" page.  Priority Mail is delivered within 2-3 days from anywhere in the contiguous states.  When shipping USPS Priority Mail, be sure to also purchase a Delivery Notification, which will assign you a tracking number.  Please specify "No Signature Required".  Our mail is received daily, however, if the mail carrier has to obtain a signature and no one is available, at the moment, he will have to take your flowers back to the Post \Office, where they may sit for several more days, which we want to avoid, for obvious reasons.   

• Yes, we can use previously dried flowers, as long as they are not molded and have not disintegrated beyond recognition.  We have actually made an heirloom light using flowers that were 62 years old!  They had been pressed within the pages of a book and were very well preserved.  Many flowers that are decades old still have their color and are able to be placed in a light to be viewed and enjoyed daily!  

• There will always be small holes in the wax walls and a small portion of some of the flowers may be exposed.  This is normal - not a defect.  It is due to the hand-crafted nature of the product and the irregular flower petal surfaces, but does not detract from the beauty of your  light.  

Yes, in most cases, we can put "Humpty Dumpty" together again! We understand that your heirloom light has tremendous sentiment attached to it.  First and foremost, we encourage you to follow the instructions and guidelines that we suggest.  However, we realize that accidents happen.  In those rare instances, if you will send us the damaged light, we will inspect it and determine whether it is necessary to melt and re-design your light.  Sometimes, that is not necessary and a few little steps will do the trick.  In either case, the main thing is that your original flowers will still be displayed in your  light. 

• Since 1995.