Candles & Weddings

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An always popular trend at weddings is candles. Candles, candles, candles and in every shape, size and colour. They add such warmth and romance to a wedding.

You can do so many different things with candles for your wedding. You can use candles as the main focal point in your centerpiece(s) or just as accents on the tables. You can create a look that unique and personal and with candles, definitely affordable.

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Here’s some of my best tips and tricks should you decide to use candles in your wedding. Read More

Organising Your Candles

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How do all you other wax junkies organise your candles? How?!

I ask this because I’ll admit my collection is slightly taking over the whole house. I’m not really complaining but it’s just not very well organised and I’ll admit I’ve tried several different ways but I haven’t really found an idea I’m completely happy with yet.

I bought some Tupperware boxes from Aldi, something like a £5 for 3. At the moment my Yankee Candle wax tarts just about fit into these boxes. But how do you organise them? By colour, alphabetical order, types of scent or do you mix your brands together? I’ll admit for now mine are in alphabetical order because I have created a spreadsheet so I know which ones I need to buy when I spot offers… yes, I’m that geeky!

Holiday Memories – Shells & Stones

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Excuse me for this sentimental blog post today but I came across this photo of a candle in a jar surrounded by shells and I started to think about holidays I had growing up. I remembered collecting shells and stones, bringing them home with a whole load of sand (that wasn’t intentional) and putting them in jars. I saw the photo above and thought that it’s something I should still do and look how pretty it looks with a candle in the middle of the jar!

A lot of you will be off on your Easter break soon and I thought this was a timely reminder to start collecting shells and stones from your holidays and day trips. I love the above idea and it’s a great way to reuse some of your old candle jars.

I also thought this was a great idea for a beach themed wedding reception for every table. So easy to put together and not too expensive at all either.

So go, collect your memories and have fun!

A Caffeine Fix from Coffee Candles

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Most people drink coffee for its taste and its caffeine jolt, but did you know that even just the scent of coffee has its own benefits.

The smell of coffee and coffee scented products have been found to help perk you up as well as helping regulate sleep and reducing stress.

With a coffee scented candle you can enjoy the same benefits of that rich and robust coffee scent without having to even make coffee. By simply burning a coffee scented candle (or melting coffee scented wax tarts) you can perk up your senses and keep yourself motivated throughout your busy day.

Combining other scents with your coffee candle or tarts can affect your mood.
With an added citrus kick you can feel even more awake and motivated. Sweet tones of vanilla, caramel, or hazelnut will give off a soothing smell and make you feel comforted and a mocha scented candle can act as an aphrodisiac. Read More

Scent Mixology

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Using small votive candles or wax melts/tarts you can mix different scents together to create custom fragrance blends.

We’d suggest warming two wax melt/tart halves together in any traditional or electric warmers or burn up to three votives or small candles together in a dish. You can use any of your favourite brands to do this as well.

Yankee Candle have a very cool triple votive holder which was made exclusively for mixology, we so need one! Read More