Hand Blended Perfume Locket…❤ Beautiful gold tone locket with crimson beads and golden key. Holds our handblended solid perfume in Spellbound Woods.  Check out our new Solid Perfume lockets…each one unique, this is the first to be posted, more to come over the next couple weeks. This one is fragranced in Spellbound Woods.Luscious berry and iced jasmine petals with magical notes of white amber and creamy sandalwood to create this Magic fragrance inspired by a walk in a Winter Orchard at dusk. Top Notes: Wild Goji Berries, Ripe RaspberryMid Notes: Gardenia Petals, Jasmine, Peach NectarBase Notes: Coconut Musk, Creamy Vanilla, Sandalwood, White Amber ♥ EdensAlchemy.com Love, Laughter&Candlelight! ...read more

By bluemooncandlesSmall Business Saturday SALE!❉Small Business Saturday SPECIAL! Get a FREE Holiday CANDLE (up to $25.00 value) with Every $40 or greater order! ❉❉Mention this special in the comment section of your shopping cart to take advantage of this offer❉ ❉The more you spend the more you get FREE! $40.00 orders get $15.00 Holiday Candle FREE, $50.00 orders get $20.00 Candle FREE, $60.00 and greater orders get $25.00 Candle FREE.❆ $100 or greater gets TWO FREE Candles-for a $40.00 Value!❂All Free items will be Winter/Holiday themed, in our current line, fragrance of my choosing. (Although if you want something particular send me a note and I will try to accommodate you.)Winter CandlesThank you for supporting our Small Business!❆Love, Laughter&Candlelight!BlueMoonCandles.com ...read more

We were honored to be part of today’s Small Business Roll Call with Donna Maria Coles Johnson of Indie Business!  If you missed it you canwatch our Video here on Ustream.We are kicking off our contest for FREE CANDLES or PERFUME!  Watch our video for the details on howYOUcan be the winner!Make this a GREAT week!  <3Love, Laughter&Candlelight! ...read more

Blue Moon CandlesPieces of Eight Pyrate candlesare agreatway to celebrate summer!  Fresh, unique and Beach ready! We think you will love ourPirate Travel Tin Candles.  They are the perfect size to take along on your travels this summer and make great Father’s Day gifts too!  While you’re at it pillage yourself a subscription ofPirate’s Magazineas well!  America’s first full color pirate magazine! Read Pirate Magazine’sreview of our Pirate Candles here. How can you go wrong with Pirate scents named for Pieces of Eight; Wicked Wench,Swag,Mutiny, Rum Runner, Singapore Nights, Calypso, Scallywag&Aztec Gold. Priced so thateveryonecan have some Pirate treasure of their very own! Read whatStyle Covenhad to say aboutour candles here. So what Arrrgh Ye waiting for?  Light up me Harties, Yo Ho! Love, Laughter & Candlelight! ...read more

Bybluemooncandles Please come out to support Breast Cancer Awareness!  (If you can not attend locally our *new*Hope Candle($10.00) will be for sale online atBlueMoonCandles.comstarting May 14th with profits going to The American Cancer Society.)There will also be a Jewelry Vendor and Pampered Chef contributing. Each one of us participating has either lost a loved one, or knows someone impacted directly by this horrible disease.Please come out and show your support!  Bring your friends-everyone is welcome!There will be free food and goodies to win, as well as each person in attendance receives a FREE Votive candle that you can add your friend or loved ones name to. (while supplies last).I look forward to seeing you there!Remember, Together we can Light the way!Blue Moon Candles ...read more

SECRET SALE for all of our Facebook friends! Check the link Secret Sale under our profile pic! (and if you are not our friend on Facebook, get in on the good stuff now! Blue Moon Candles on Facebook,Eden’s Alchemy on Facebook) Pass it on….  Love, Laughter and Candlelight! ...read more

Do you dream in color?  Have you ever dreamed with fragrance?  Sometimes I do…This fragrance has haunted me since the first time I smelled it in a dream…this is the closestperfumereproduction I can make.  It is not exact, butvery close.I love this oneso muchI felt she deserved her own blog entry…I wanted to share a little bit of my insane process of creating with you in hopes that you will love, or at least better understand the end result.I keep little blotter papers near me so I can scratch out ideas and inspirations as they strike-I have been known to pull over when driving to record ideas, jolt upright out of sleep to scratch them down,  and sometimes they just quietly sneak up and tap me on the shoulder.  Either way I hope this helps you understand the crazy that creates my fragrances….Bella Morte Fragrance note scribblesA few weeks ago during a rainstorm I woke up at 2 am in the middle of a haunting dream about a girl with a velvet dress (I think I am going to write a book about her someday) reading an old leather book, cemeteries, angels, roses, mist, leather,  and I could literallysmellher perfume.I decided to re-create herPerfumeand I have decided to call itBella Morte(Italian for Beautiful Death)…Bella Morte Perfume:Rich Dark&Warm, Intense, Sensual and Feminine…it begins like a dream with wistful  Rose Absolute & Grey Amber, mid notes of Smokey Cedar  grounded with Dark Sweet Benzoin & Vanilla, hints of Wild Lavender, ancient Woods and Earth, infused with burnt Caramel Bitters.Inspired by old roses on a lovers grave, tattered time worn velvet, lost love, longing and heartbreak, misty full moons, wild gardens and herbs growing irreverently, remembrance of things past…Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think….❥Love, Laughter & Candlelight!(Artist links:  http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=beautiful death&order=9&offset=48#/d2j628h & http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=cemetary music&order=9&offset=72#/d18xj66) ...read more

Wax Poetic~Blue Moon Candle's Blog~Eco Friendly Green Candles by a Fragrance Addict! February 7, 2011 A great example of a positive outlook and facing in the direction you want to move. Bybluemooncandles I read something this morning that grabbed my attention.  Did you know that Green Bay coach Mike McCarthy believed so certainly in his teams victory that he had all of his playersfitted for their championship rings on Saturday night?!  A bold move that will surely go down in Superbowl legend.It made me realize we should all have that kind of belief in things we undertake.It's easy to have faith in yourself when you're a winner, whenyou're number one.  What you've got to have is faith inyourself when you're not a winner.– Vince LombardiConfidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.Vince LombardiIf you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.Vince LombardiDictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.Vince LombardiWe are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguisedas insoluble problems.It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.Here's to Planning for Success! ★Love, Laughter&Candlelight! ...read more

Wax Poetic~Blue Moon Candle's Blog~Eco Friendly Green Candles by a Fragrance Addict! February 6, 2011 Superbowl XLV! Bybluemooncandles In case there was any doubt who we are cheering for in the Superbowl let me just say GO PACKERS!!!  Tomorrow I am looking forward to a day of rowdy friends and family, screams and cheers, bratwurst and beer, funny commercials and the cherry on top?  Hopefully a Green Bay WIN! Who is my favorite player?  Clay Matthews #52 of course.  Why you ask?  Because he is a violent man.  It reminds me of playing and watching Hockey-I apparently like my sports with a side of viciousness. *gasp* Clay Mattherws #52 Green Bay Packers Do you knowhow the Packers got their name? Do you know what the "G" stands for in the Packers logo? It's not what you think. It stands for "Greatness". Not Green Bay. The oval "G" Packers logo was created in 1961 by Packers then-equipment manager George Braisher. So break out your Cheese head and cheer with me Go Pack GO!<3 Love, Laughter, Football! ...read more

Bybluemooncandles Well the new year is a great time for a new start.  Many people are dieting, for me that really never seems to work, here is a little about what Iamdoing. I think that many of the diet programs out there make a lot of promises without delivering on them.  I really think that the changes we want will come througheducating ourselves and hard work, pretty much like everything else in life.  Diets only work for so long, and when you get off the program results fail because our habits really never changed. Here is a shortvideo that I liked and it has lots of tips on how to do it. I liked what Dr. Weil has to say about dieting here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36zk2dv81AI Did you know that according to Christopher Adams a molecular biologist "Eighty percent of what you perceive as taste is actually smell". Dr. Alan Hirsch actually provided his patients with a fragrant inhaler of peppermint to use prior to eating and discovered his patients lost an average of 5 pounds per month with no other behavioral changes than just adding the inhaler.  Topping the list of weight reducing fragrances are Peppermint and Green Apple. We are makingCandlesthis week in both fragrances as well as to-go car and skin scents.  Check ourFacebook pagefor availability later this week. <3 Check them out and give it a try yourself. If nothing else, you will enjoy the clean fresh fragrances! What fresh fragrances inspire you? Love, Laughter&Candlelight, ...read more

My kids have always loved Santa.  It was a tradition in my husbands family.  (Growing up we always knew about Santa but the focus was more onthe Christmas Storythan Santa.)  Our kids useNoradevery year (you can also track him usingGoogle Earth)  to track Santa's journey around the globe and watch with anticipation to see where Santa is and where his next stop will be. I have often wondered how this Santa tracking site came to be so here is the story as told bycnet news&Google, amazing that it all actually began in 1955 with a wrong number."One morning that December, U.S. Air Force Col. Harry Shoup, the director of operations at CONAD, the Continental Air Defense Command--NORAD's predecessor--got a phone call at his Colorado Springs, Colo., office (see video below). This was no laughing matter. The call had come in on one of the top secret lines inside CONAD that only rang in the case of a crisis.The ad that started it all.(Credit: NORAD)Grabbing the phone, Shoup must have expected the worst. Instead, a tiny voice asked, "Is this Santa Claus?""Dad's pretty annoyed," said Terri Van Keuren, Shoup's daughter, recalling the legend of that day in 1955. "He barks into the phone," demanding to know who's calling."The little voice is now crying," Van Keuren continued. "'Is this one of Santa's elves, then?'"The Santa questions were only beginning. That day, the local newspaper had run a Sears Roebuck ad with a big picture of St. Nick and text that urged, "Hey, Kiddies! Call me direct...Call me on my private phone and I will talk to you personally any time day or night."But the phone number in the ad was off by a digit. Instead of connecting with Santa, callers were dialing in on the line that would ring if the Russians were attacking.Before long, the phone was ringing off the hook, and softening up, Shoup grabbed a nearby airman and told him to answer the calls and, Van Keuren said, "'just pretend you're Santa.'"Indeed, rather than having the newspaper pull the Sears ad, Shoup decided to offer the countless kids calling in something useful: information about Santa's progress from the North Pole. To quote the official NORAD Santa site, "a tradition was born."Kids all around the globe have fun every Christmas Eve tracking Santa!  I'll be watching, will you?!Love Laughter&Candlelight, Read more:http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10418101-52.html#ixzz192oESfQI Get in the spirit with someChristmas Music! Merry Christmas! <3 ...read more

Wax Poetic~Blue Moon Candle's Blog~Eco Friendly Green Candles by a Fragrance Addict! December 20, 2010 Full M☼☼n Lunar Eclipse on the Midwinter Solstice. Bybluemooncandles Early Tuesday morning stargazers all over North America and  Europe will storms willing be able to witness a spectacular sight! A total lunar eclipsethat will also coincide with theWinter Solstice.  The Sun, Earth and Moon will be in a direct line -the moon should still be visible,but will possibly turn pink or even red.  Most of this refracted light is in the red part of the spectrum and as a result the moon, seen from Earth, turns a reddish, coppery or orange hue, sometimes even brownish. "The entire event is visible from North America, Greenland and Iceland," says NASA's veteran eclipse expert Fred Espenak, pointing out that for observers in the western United States and Canada, the show will start on Monday evening rather than Tuesday morning. "Western Europe will see the beginning stages of the eclipse before moonset, while western Asia will get the later stages after moonrise." The eclipse runs for three and a half hours, from 6:33 GMT to 10:01 GMT (1:33 a.m. EST to 5:01 a.m. EST), although the stage of total eclipse — when the moon heads into the "umbra" cast by the Earth — lasts from 7:41 to 8:53 GMT (2:41 a.m. EST to 3:53 a.m. EST). Lunar eclipses have long been associated with superstitions and signs of ill omen, especially in battle.  The defeat of the Persian king Darius III by Alexander the Great in the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 B.C. was foretold when the moon turned blood-red a few days earlier. The last total lunar eclipse took place on Feb. 21, 2008. Next year, says Espenak, will see two: on June 15 and Dec. 10.This Solstice Eclipse is the first in 456 years! What will you do to celebrate?  I am using up some wishes hoping the clouds and rain clear-our area in Southern California is currently hit by what meteorologists are calling the storm of the century. I am going to settle in with a tall glass of wine, light a few candles and hope for the best!  OurCandle fragranceof the day is of course ourWinter Solstice:an exquisite blend of Woods, Frozen Blackberry, Fig, Rose, Amber and Spices. Opening with Bergamot and Fig, it reveals a luscious heart of French Rose, Cinnamon, Frozen Blackberry. Base notes of most seductive Cedar, Balsam and Sandalwood are sweetened with Amber. Winter Solstice Candle Love, Laughter&Candlelight! ...read more

St. Lucia, the patron Saint of Light.  December 13th...In traditional celebrations Saint Lucy comes as a young woman with lights and sweets.  A procession is headed by one girl wearing a crown of candles (or lights), while others in the procession hold only a single candle each. One of the most popular Christmas traditions in Sweden is the celebration of Saint Lucia's Day, on December 13th. Although not a legal holiday, Saint Lucia's Day is a day of great celebrating and merriment. The Story of Saint Lucia stretches back to the time of the Vikings and the Roman Empire. According to legend, Lucia was a brave young woman from the island of Sicily, in the Mediterranean. When Lucia heard about the persecution of Christians by the Emperor, she gave one Christian family her entire dowry. This so angered her betrothed husband, that he told authorities that Lucia secretly practiced Christianity. Lucia, who died a martyrs death, was much admired for her courage, generosity and faith. And tradition has it that she took food to Christians hiding from persecution in underground tunnels, wearing candles on a wreath around her head to light the way. Traditionally, on St. Lucia day The Lucia is dressed in white robes and red ribbons and wears a crown of candles on her head. Often times the eldest daughter plays Lucia, and greets her family with a breakfast of hot coffee and pastries, known as Lucia Buns or St Lucia buns or Swedish Saffron Buns or Swedish Lussekatt. St. Lucia is rich with religious history and symbolism, and it is a holiday that has withstood commercialism and stayed firm in its origins in modern times. We are celebrating this day by pouring our Ginger Crumbcake Candles!  A tantalizing blend of the rich, spicy scents of gingerbread baked with saffron, nutmeg, cinnamon, molasses, vanilla, brown sugar and butter notes. Love, Laughter&Candlelight! Lisa ...read more

Hello…My name is Lisa and I am a Bookworm…I love to read, and have wondered about ereaders-which is best? The Barnes and Noble Nook?The Amazon Kindle?OrPandigital's Novel? I never thought an electronic E-Book Reader would work for me.  I am abook addict, I collect books and just the musty dusty book smell in my favorite vintage bookshop can make myheart skip a beat.  I thought I would look into ereaders and see what they were all about.  I went to try out Barnes and Noble's Nook for myself and readreview after review at C Net.There are so many pros and cons out there that it really boils down to what you are trying to do with your reader and which features work best for you.I chosePandigital's Noveland I will tell you why.  Iloveto read at night-and you can change the text from day reading to Night read-which flips the background to black and leaves text white so you need no additional lighting to read.  You can change the font or brightness to suit you. It may not work as well on a sunny beach as say the Nook (but it has not stopped me). It comes loaded with a great dictionary-tap the word in question and Novel's dictionary pops up and  will define it.I am graphics oriented and love that the touch screen is Full Color-so magazines and pictures are full color.  It holds your music and photos, video-whatever you want.  A main selling point to me is that it compatible with Barnes and Noble stores so you can download books in under a second.  The Novel is Wi-Fi ready!  You can surf the internet or email on the virtual keyboard.  You can also lend and borrow books via lendme technology. It has expandable memory and can literally holdthousandsof books!I love my Novel andcan not imaginelife without it now.  I have not experienced any problems with it being too slow-it has *so far* run great!  I do not see it ever replacing my beloved vintage books or collected favorites *but* it is unbeaten in quickly providing "snack books" and it even has the ability todownload Free books from B&N!The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.  ~James BryceA good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end.  You live several lives while reading it.  ~William Styron, interview,Writers at Work, 1958Books are portable Magick…Go lose yourself in a great book!Love, Laughter & Candlelight!Share this:StumbleUponDiggRedditFacebook Like ...read more

Who doesn't like cupcakes?!  Today's fragrance is Pink Cupcakes. What does it smell like??? Sweet, playful and simple; this scent is an innocent confection. Think of delicate yellow cupcakes, topped with a generous mound of whipped strawberry-infused icing. A lovely, well balanced bakery scent that will bring out the kid in you!  A hint of wild Strawberries play over notes of crunchy crystal sugars, fluffy icing, vanilla extract and downy, moist cake. Classic and mouth-watering! If you are in the mood for cupcakes-what about these from our friends atSugartit Kitchens! Sugartit Kitchens is based in Oakland, and is the creation of chefsAngie SernaandAmie Bailey, who occasionally join forces with other independent and like-minded food professionals and dilettantes. From cupcakes to pickles to special events, our focus is on creating great flavors with seasonal and local ingredients, garnished with a wink and a smile. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter (@sugartitkitchen) and by email at sugartitkitchens@gmail.com custom orders welcome. Love, Laughter&Candlelight! ...read more