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chevcher

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  • Gender
    Female
  • Location
    Canton, Ohio
  • Interests
    Creating all things wax, antiques, gardening,sewing,music, painting, writing

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  • Makes
    candles
  • Location
    O-H-I-O
  • Occupation
    full time wax hippy / suzy homemaker
  • About You
    I love rock/metal music, racing. I enjoy gardening & posess wicked skills in the kitchen ! I also write and am currently working on a biography-betcha didn't know that !
  • Likes / Dislikes
    Love patchouli stuff !! do not care for overly floral stuff

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  1. It's really sad, I had such high hopes. I used to buy a lot of candle supplies from them years ago, until they dropped the ball on me during busy season and ubruptly stopped carrying glassware and wax.
  2. Placed an order with WSP on 3/17, as of 4 /9 I'm still waiting. I didn't order bulk or during a sale. According to their website , my estimated ship date was 3/28 . I'm literally 35 minutes away from them, I could pull the order myself if they would let me. In my former life ,I worked in a warehouse that pulled orders daily for over 500 stores nationwide (Camelot Music). Everything else I've ordered from other suppliers has arrived within a few days or sooner. I'm thinking that WSP has bit off more than they can chew with all these buy outs. I was really hoping to do more business with them ,but I cannot risk not knowing when I'll recieve my orders. I do hope they get their shipping dept. issues straightened out. Until then , this is my last order.
  3. It's really good,you won't be disappointed ! It's pretty true to it's name. The nutmeg is really good as well, it's a nice warm fragrance, not super spicy.
  4. Actually NG zuchinni bread is really about as close as I can get right now to that scent. It has the right bakery depth, scent wise. I'll try adding a splash of cookie to see what it smells like. Thanks so much Belinda 😊
  5. So far a lot of the cake samples I've ordered are way too light- cherry, almond ,white cake . Patti Cakes was more like a banana nut bread, but without the bananas. It was an amazing mixer !
  6. @Jasmine M Candles & Supplies and Community Candle Supplies carry the kraft paper caps you're looking for. I used to order those for a line of tumbler jars I used to carry. HTH
  7. @TallTayl thanks ,I will definitely check into that. I started to build one last year on WIX, then I got really overwhelmed with everything and aborted the mission. I'm thinking that I need to watch some tutorials to get over my fear of screwing things up . The hardest part for me is figuring out shipping costs. I don't want to gouge people but I also don't want to lose money.
  8. Very cool ! I can't see anything that you may have missed, Looks like you pretty much covered everything. Thanks !
  9. I couldn't agree with you more ! This is my #1 pet peeve at some of my shows. A few years back, it got so bad with internet misinformation ,I had a few people dash out of my booth because I carry para-soy & paraffin products. There were also some newbie competitors that were literally carnival barking the gospel of paraffin doom & gloom to passersby , that was unreal 🙄 Since then I've made hand outs to educate existing and potential customers 😉 Makes me think of the saying..."Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make yours shine any brighter".
  10. I've always been somewhat of a "People Pleaser", so naturally customer complaints was something that made me a bit fearful. In recent years I've changed my mindset on that fear and accepted it as a way to keep me grounded, because we're all human and mistakes happen. Since most of my business is done at festivals , I've had to deal with complaints face to face. Thankfully, they've been few and far between and those customers were very gracious in their approach. I agree, it does create opportunities to improve as well as potentially grow your business by learning from those mistakes. I've been creating candles & scented wax products for 24 years now, I'm still learning new things and enjoying all that comes along with it. Now ,if I could just get motivated enough to put together a website , maybe cast my net a little wider
  11. I wonder if Oakmoss would be a good blender ? One of my candle maker friends gave me a full pound from TFC and I haven't done a thing with it yet. I wasn't sure how it would sell on it's own, but I'd be down for mixing it with something to make it faboulous !
  12. Millcreek's Fireside Musk is really gorgeous OOB. I'm hoping it does well in Para-Soy, because I have several customers that love the hippie-type scents .
  13. So far Cake from CS is pretty good, but that rich baked smell is missing
  14. There may be some vapor left in the bottle 😢 Last time I was able to get this was not long after RE took over KY. I guess they had too many problems with this oil and just decided to drop it. I have samples coming from a few different suppliers to compare. I used it as a mixer for a blend that my customers want me to bring back. If I can find the right baked cake scent I can make that happen. So far everything I'm finding has too much cherry / almond , Patti Cakes was more of a deep baked yellow cake scent which made it perfect for blending.
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