Sep
21
Thanks to Vie from Vie Couture’s blog I found this beautiful limited edition Missoni candle. Burning time is apparently up to 80 hours.
If you’re a big Missoni perfume fan you might not mind dropping $150 for this pretty candle. Price not so pretty. I do love the cheerful colors.
Striped candles aren’t that hard to [...]
Sep
13
At Carved Solutions they create beautiful images or words that are carved into palm wax candles. The candles melt inwards so that there is a space to put a tea light inside and enjoy it longer.
You can get customized candles for almost any occasion. They use only natural essential oils, palm wax and cotton [...]
Sep
4
Scent-Sations: Mia Bella Gourmet Candles is a company offering high quality candles and bath and body products. There are 90 different scents to choose from for jars and votives.
Mia’s Bella’s bakery section offers realistic scented pie candles including apple, pumpkin, cherry, key lime, chocolate dream and strawberry cream.
They also have scented candle tart [...]
Aug
29
There’s some interesting information on bayberry candles at Relaxation at Home’s website. For instance did you know it takes 15 pounds of bayberries to make 1 pound of wax? No wonder it’s so expensive. They’re perfect for dipped tapers, burn well and have a low melting point.
If you want to try making some hand dipped [...]
Aug
23
If you love beeswax candles, check out SantaFe for good quality affordable candles. Their website is also extremely well laid out and informative.
I learned that any candle maker can label their candles beeswax even if it only contains 10% beeswax.
There’s also some interesting information on bees and the benefits of beeswax to our [...]
Aug
22
Stage Glow Candle’s containers come apart so for each burn you start with a shorter fresh candle. What a great idea for a clean burning candle!
They’re made from soy wax with cotton wicks and have three different stages. You just take off one level and the lid fits right back on to start fresh again. [...]
Aug
21
These Sundaes look so real and you can make your own with an ice cream sundae gel candle kit from Gelluminations.
The kit makes six differrent sundaes and includes the dishes, embeds, toppings, ice cream scoops and wick. Other novelty gel candle kits include beer mugs, margaritas and banana splits.
If you don’t want to make those, [...]
Aug
20
Steven Montes the artist contacted me to let us know about his original artistic candle holders made out of tin food cans.
I previously posted about punching holes into a tin can with a hammer and nail but that looks primitive compared to Steven’s gorgeous tin can candle holders.
If you want to check out more one [...]
Aug
14
Manly Man candles have some new scents out now, which I found out about through their blog Manly Man Candle Company Presents: Manly Thoughts. Here are the newest additions so far. Sports Injury, Dad’s gum, Manilla and Bob’s Eucalyptus.
I also received an email with a request for some ideas for new manly scents. The man [...]
Aug
5
I really admire the colorful, detailed hand painted flowers on these votive holders at Country Joy Crafts.
They’re very cheerful and it’s a pretty way to brighten up your home especially on a rainy day.
The nice thing about votive holders is that you can reuse them over and over again with different scented candles.
Some of the [...]






