Bucket of Votives Giveaway #1

We are preparing for our busy season and that means making room for more scents!   We have hundreds of mismatched votives from the wedding season and testing scents that we would like to offer you.  You have a chance to win a variety of 30-40 candles from our signature chunk styles, soy wax, palm wax, square shaped, octagon shaped to tarts,   We will be running three giveaways for the next 3 weeks.   Tell your friends!  If you don't win this week try try again!  
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Autumn Candle Gift Set GiveAWay

We are back and will be having several giveaways in the next few weeks so make sure you enter if you don't win one.   This Autumn Candle Gift set isn't listed on our main site but exclusively in our Etsy store.

Rustic 2oz soy candles in four different fall fragrances. Purchases of this set can choose 4 of the following delectable fall favorites (Apple Jack + Peel, Autumn Afternoon, Autumn Lodge, Buttercream Apple, Butter Rum, Campfire Cocoa, Cinnamon Exotic Amber, Cinnamon Vanilla, Cornucopia,
Ginger Apple, Gingerbread Cookies, Indian Summer, Kitchen Spices, Mahogany Spice, Moncha Spice, 
Pear Spiced Fig, Roasted Hazelnut, Spice Rack, Spiced Caramel Cream, Sugar Cookie, Sweet Potato + Brown Sugar, Vanilla Amber Fig Twist, Vanilla Nut Spice, Zanzibar Clove )

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We have limited quantities but for this giveaway there will be 2 winners!
What would be your four favorite scents?
Don't forget to enter everyday!!

Let's Make some Butter!!

Ashy season is upon us so it's time to make some Whipped Body Butter.  I actually use this all year around because a former coworker use to laugh at someone at work who wore strappy heels no matter what season and her heels were always ashy.  Needles to say even if my toes aren't freshly polished I de-ash before putting on my flip flops.

Shea Butter and Coco Butter.  The Coco Butter is s a bit harder.

I like to make my butters in small batches to guarantee freshness.   I melt it on a very low with some of my favorite oils sweet almond oil, macadamia nut oil, jojoba oil.  If I'm making my own personal batch I may switch up the oils to sunflower oil, olive oil, medowfoam seed oil.

 Once melted I let it cool and then add the other ingredients.  Now it's time to whip it good!

It starts looking creamy depending on how cool it is about 15 minutes after I "whip it good"

Voila!  After a while it stiffens up and starts looking like vanilla ice cream 

Now it's ready to ship.  However this batch is going to mom.

This batch was Fig & Sweet Almond and Bajan Blue Waters. We make our whipped body butter in 7 fragrances (and of course unscented).   We also make samples.  Don't forget to pick up some for those heels and elbow.

Fall Votive Candle Giveaway

Kitchen Spices, Caramel Popcorn, Mulled Cider + Chestnuts, Down Home and Autumn Mums are our latest new fall fragrances and you have a chance to try them for free.  Two super-sized votive candles.  Pick whatever fall scents you want.

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My Favorite Season

I know I'm a few weeks late and winter is just around the corner but only recently has the temperature dropped to the 50's and 60's.  I am lucky to live on the east coast of the US to witness every autumn season and the beautiful changing of the leaves from green to golds, orange and browns.  I love going apple and pumpkin picking. I love the color of pumpkins and squashes but end up giving them to neighbors because I'm not a of fan of eating pumpkin.

It's Halloween today and even though not many kids go trick-or-treating door to door anymore, I still get a warm fuzzy feeling seeing them in their cute store bought or homemade costumes.  Oh and how they lighten up when they see you dropped chocolate in their bags!  If you have Hershey's I think they text their friends that "this house has chocolate!" and you start getting swarms of them.

I've made three apple pies in as many weeks.  Somehow as much as I love making and eating them I don't make them any other time of the year.  I don't think there isn't anything I don't love about this season!  Time to curl up by the fireplace with my scented pinecones, drink some orange-almond tea and cut another slice of pie!
What's your favorite season? Why?