Candle Blog

Since I remember, my mother always had wonderful smelling potpourri around the house. Every month she would change the fragrance so the house would have a different inviting new smell! Sometimes it was a lovely gardenia scented potpourri and other times, lilac or merlot. Of course when I moved out and got my own home, this nice tradition became part of my life too! Now, all my children have moved out and I’m on my own. I needed to find a hobby to fill my empty days with and making something useful... more

I’ve been going through a divorce for about a year now, but finally I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I should have listened to my mother 5 years ago, when she told me that this marriage wouldn’t last, but I was in love! Hopefully I’ll learn from my mistakes and be more careful next time around. Anyway, my soon to be ex husband moved out last week and I couldn’t be happier about that! But I tell you, even though he’d moved out… I was still very irritated... more

One of my many girlfriends is getting married soon and we’re throwing “another” traditional bachelorette party! I think it’s the third one this year with lots of alcohol, candy and naked dancing men! I don’t mean to sound cruel, but these never ending bachelorette parties are becoming quite a bore. When and if it ever becomes my turn to get hitched, maybe I feel better about them! This time I was going to do something a little different, instead of skimpy lingerie... more

My kid brother still lives at home and he just turned 32! He’s a total mama’s boy and he has always been kind of a late bloomer. One day my mother told me that he’s been dating a girl for a while and he hasn’t said much about her. But my mother has noticed a rather strange smell “oozing” from his clothes and hair, when he arrives home after a night with her. She can’t quite put her finger on it, but she doesn’t want to ask him about it. Anyhow, last week my brother was ready for the... more

My daughter is getting married this summer at the end of July, and she wants that perfect beautiful summer wedding, every girl dream of. I and my daughter’s future mother in-law are trying to stay out of the wedding plans as much as we can, and will only help when we are asked to. It’s hard for both of us; because we feel that we have so much positive input we can provide for her. Well anyway, we were allowed to check out her what to do “wedding list” and we both noticed that... more

I will keep this post really brief as tomorrow is the big day and I just finished up some of my preliminary Thanksgiving preparations. I just wanted to follow up on my post yesterday covering Oprah’s favorite things list of 07 and more specifically the Oprah candles, which this year are the Mayan Tuberose candles. We have received some nice feedback on these candles already and are excited to announce that we starting initial conversations with the distributor of these special Oprah candles... more

Me and my girlfriends always fight over which one gets to use her favorite Scented Candles, reed diffusers, or potpourri for our intimate dorm parties. I mean, we can’t have lots of different aromas floating around the room; people will get dizzy, so we decided to have a contest. The one that would make the best argument for their favorite one would win, and get to use it at our parties for a whole month. Of course we got into a fight when we’re all trying to convince each other why... more

I wish I’d remembered to fill my pool with beautiful floating Candles, when my stepson got married in my backyard eight years ago! Now, my oldest son got married a few weeks ago, also in my backyard and this time around I decided to light up the pool. I decorated the pool with hundreds of floating candles which definitely brought more of an ambiance and beauty to the backyard. But wow, did my stepson get upset with me, when he arrived to the wedding….why didn’t he get to have the pool... more

I had this huge fight with my boyfriend and I was miserable; I couldn’t eat, sleep or even go to work; all I could do was cry. But I wasn’t going to call him until he called me; after all he was the one who started it all. My mother was actually getting a little worried about me, since neither I, nor my boyfriend seemed to want to make up any time soon. I was starting to wonder if he was ever going to call. But like always, here comes mother to the rescue! She called and said; I’m... more

Me and all my girlfriends have finally finished our three month diet plan! Now,we all decided we need to celebrate all the weight we lost by throwing a “finally skinny” party. But we don’t want to gain any weight back,so a “low fat” menu is on the agenda. One of my girlfriends had this great idea that the accent should be on fruit, lots of different kinds of fruit. Another girl said; how about Fruit Scented Wax Tarts and Wax Melts as a perfect addition to our party. We... more