Ooltewah · Cleveland · Chattanooga

Made by hand, in small batches, with a lot of love.

Fresh sourdough, cold-process soap, moisturizing shaving bars, and soft lovey animals — each one made a few at a time, by one person who cares how it turns out.

See what we make How to order
Small Batch
Two freshly baked sourdough boules cooling on a wire rack
A bar of handmade soap swirled with pink, blue and gold
A blue crocheted triceratops lovey sitting between a bunny and a unicorn
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What We Make

Four things, made properly.

Everything here comes out of one kitchen, one soap bench, and one very well-used crochet hook. Small batches mean things sell out — that is rather the point.

Sourdough Bread

naturally leavened

Cold-fermented overnight and baked in small batches. Flour, water, salt, starter — nothing else in the classic loaf.

Bake days & loaves

Homemade Soap

cured six weeks

Cold-process bars, swirled by hand and cured six weeks so they last in the shower. Pine tar and plain unscented too.

How it is made

Shaving Bars

a proper lather

Moisturizing bars that work with or without a brush. One bar replaces a great many aerosol cans.

How they work

Lovey Plushies

crocheted by hand

Chunky chenille loveys, crocheted one at a time. Built to be dragged to daycare, washed, and loved threadbare.

Loveys & keepsakes
Two deeply golden sourdough boules cooling on a wire rack, hand-scored with a wheat-stalk pattern that has opened up across the crust.
out of the oven, still ticking as it cools

The Bread

Two days, start to finish.

The dough is mixed one day and baked the next, after a long cold night in the fridge. That slow ferment is what builds the flavour — there is no way to hurry it, and no reason to want to.

Every loaf is scored by hand just before it goes in, so no two open up the same way. They come out with a crust that crackles as it cools and a crumb that is soft without being flimsy.

Bread is baked to order and sold the day it comes out. Two days' notice is plenty — and if you want something particular in the loaf, just ask.

In every loaf

Flour, water, salt, and starter.

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A glass jar of active sourdough starter, bubbled and risen, beside a second jar on the counter.
One the starter, awake
A sourdough loaf baking in a parchment-lined cast iron Dutch oven, its crust turning golden.
Two into the iron pot
A finished sourdough loaf crusted with baked cheese and herbs, cooling on a wire rack.
Three and out to cool
Two bars of hand-cut pine tar soap resting on stone outdoors, dark all the way through, tops left rough where the batter set.
pine tar soap, cut by hand

The Soap

Poured, cut, then left alone.

Every bar is cold-process, which means the oils and the lye do the work themselves over several weeks rather than being pushed along with heat. It is the slow way to make soap and there is no shortcut worth taking.

The oils are weighed to a recipe before anything is mixed — soap is chemistry, and guessing at it produces something you would not want to wash with. Once it traces, the batter goes into a wooden mould, and any colour is swirled in by hand while it is still loose. That part takes a few minutes and cannot be undone.

A day later the block comes out and is cut into bars. Then they sit on a rack for six weeks, losing water and hardening, until they are mild enough to use and dense enough to last in a shower.

The dark bars in the photograph are pine tar soap. The pine tar is what makes them that colour — it goes in as a thick, black, sticky resin and takes the whole bar with it. They smell of woodsmoke and creosote, which people either love on sight or want nothing to do with. There is not much middle ground.

Why six weeks

A young bar is soft and washes away in a fortnight. A cured one lasts.

How to order →

Solid white and cream oils weighed into a measuring jug, next to a printed soap recipe sheet.
One oils on the scale
Freshly poured soap in a lined wooden mould, its surface swirled in peach, cream and teal.
Two swirled in the mould
Four cut bars of cold-process soap, each swirled with pink, blue, yellow and green.
Three cut, and curing
A row of handmade crochet lovey animals in chunky chenille yarn — a grey elephant, sage green dinosaur, tan bunny, teal and navy triceratops, and cream unicorn — resting on an antique wooden sideboard.
this batch, before they found their people

The Loveys

Crocheted, one at a time.

Each lovey is crocheted by hand in soft chenille yarn — thick, squishy, and heavy enough to feel like something. An elephant takes an evening. A triceratops takes rather longer.

They are made to be carried by one ear, taken to daycare, dropped in car parks, and washed more often than anyone expects. Colours can be chosen to order, and most animals can be made in whatever shade you have in mind.

Recent colours

Ask about a lovey →

Bronwyn, the maker behind Bronnies, smiling.
Bronwyn

The Maker

Hello — I'm Bronwyn.

Bronnies started the way most small things do: making something for one person, then making it again because someone else asked.

Everything is made by hand with care, creativity, and a little bit of love.

I bake bread that takes two days, cure soap that takes six weeks, and crochet loveys one at a time. None of it is fast, and that is deliberate — small batches are the only way I know to keep an eye on every single thing that leaves here.

Whether you want something comforting for your home, a meaningful gift, or a treat for yourself, I hope you find something here that brings a little more warmth and joy to your day.

Why It's Different

Handmade isn't a label here. It's the constraint.

Genuinely small batch

Forty bars of soap at a time. A dozen loaves on a bake day. When it's gone, it's gone until the next batch — no warehouse, no back stock.

Ingredients said out loud

Olive oil, coconut oil, lye. Flour, water, salt, starter. If you want to know exactly what's in something, just ask — the answer is short.

Made to be used up

Bread to eat this week, soap to wear down to a sliver, a lovey to be dragged everywhere and washed a hundred times. Nothing here is for display.

How to Order

Baked to order, brought to you.

There's no shop and no shelf — everything is made to order in a home kitchen in Ooltewah. Tell us what you'd like, and we'll arrange a time for you to collect it or bring it to you.

  1. I Send a message. What you're after, and roughly when you need it. bronwyn@bronniesonline.com
  2. II We'll settle the details. Bread is baked fresh for your order, so it needs a couple of days' notice. Soap cures for six weeks — plan gifts early.
  3. III Collect, or we'll deliver. Pick up in Ooltewah at a time we arrange, or we'll meet you locally. The address comes with your confirmation.

Delivering around Ooltewah and nearby. Further out — Chattanooga, Cleveland — just ask, and we'll see what we can work out.

Keep in Touch

Know when the bread comes out.

An occasional note about bake days, new batches, and what is coming out of the oven — no more than a couple of times a month.

We'll send one email asking you to confirm — nothing else until you do.