Reef Botanicals

A lawyer since 1995, Larissa has always also satisfied her creative side.  In 2003 she started a face painting business, which is still a successful and active endeavor today.  In addition, she has participated in theater and film since 2002.  Photography remains a hobby as well.She has been an artist and crafter pretty much from birth, starting art classes at age 5, making latch hook rugs as a kid, building and outfitting dollhouses as a teen, baking and taking cake decorating classes.  She taught herself to knit for a character she played in a show, and has since graduated from an unknown block of garter stitch as a prop to stuffed animals and scarves.  In high school, just because she wanted one for Halloween, but not owning a sewing machine, she hand-sewed a poodle skirt for herself.  After making a puppet for a contest here on the Handmade Artists Blog, she received a sewing machine as a gift, the first she used since her home ec class in 1984, and has been using it regularly, to make toys and other terrific things, some of which are available in the Reef Botanicals Handmade Artists’ Shop.In 2008, when she met her husband Eric, chef, beer brewer, cheese maker, and bread baker… she realized she had a kindred spirit on her hands when he suggested out of the blue they try candle making.  In addition to candles, they tried soap.  Their friends and family loved it… and from there, Reef Botanicals was born, together with a commitment to natural, eco-friendly bath and beauty products.  They make everything from scratch in their kitchen, using their own recipes of all-natural, safe ingredients.  Although they live with one dog, three cats, and several fish and corals, there’s no animal testing.

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