southern.scents

Wow e, I really like the boxes. I had placed some in my shopping cart on a packaging site the other day so I could see how they look but decided against it. Yours look amazing. I will definitely order these next time. Much more classy than shrink wrap or saran wrap at that. The brown craft paper sounds nice to. I think that was paper could even look nice if you added a cigar wrapper.

From personal experience, NO saran wrap. It is ways to thin and traps no fragrance or "freshness" in. It really looks like crap too. When your soaps are handled the saran wrap becomes kinda cloudy. You should probably go with shrink wrap. Thats what Im going with. It's pretty simple and looks good.

Not sure if you guys have ordered from here, but the other day I ordered for the first time. I have not even received the FOs and I absolutely love the company. I wish I could buy all of my supplies from them. They shipped my order the day after it was place (I placed it at 10:00PM). I also emailed customer service and received the response in, get this, 15 minutes. Not hours, not days, not weeks, MINUTES. Their pricing is also good and they offer a wholesale plan which may or may not include FOs. You should check them out if you already have not. I will update on the quality of the FOs when I receive them, hopefully Wednesday. I cant wait. www.solascandle.com Note to Mods, Not sure where to place this so, please feel free to move it if it isn't in the correct place.

No, I did not sell someone elses candles as my own at ANY time. I have made my candles from the begining. I did sell supplies and candles from their site but their candles never were marketed as mine. You may have just gotten this from the whole mix up which I admit was an enormous mess. You guys, I do have a bad history on this board which I appologized for and understand you being wary for but saying I have mental issues and saying that my gene pool needs clorox. There are several times that I felt like saying things like that about some of you but I chose not to out of respect for you guys. Even more, you guys are saying that my gene pool needs clorox and that I have mental issues without having even seen or spoken to me in person. All you know is through text which can mean different things through different eyes. Either way, call me names, speak insults about me but, I will not have you say that I have tried to sell someone elses candles under my name without stating so. The only gellumintions candles I sold were being drop shipped and are only available with a password at this point. I would not relabel someone elses candles. I hope that posters that have not read my history do so and choose to judge me with information from the present and future and not with the past.

Looks great. I didn't have but a few minutes to look at it, so, I may have overlooked things, but it looks great. I really like where you have your featured scent.

Your baskets look really nice. I can't stand cellophane. Sometimes I will end up with a roll where the cello is just a little bit thicker and it always takes me forever to get it just right. Thats what I get for not buying cello from the same place everytime.

To MiaBella or Scent Sations, whoever it is. I actually went to his site, tomscandleshop.com which took me to the mia bella site. I then clicked on contact and contacted the corporation.

Well, as much as I hate to say it, I have heard compliments on their soap from consumers but, they are just that, consumers, whom can sometimes be uneduated in candle and soap making and quality. I think I am gonna report him. I have not dealt with him at shows but I truly don't wanna have to. My luck is, he would find a way around me reporting him or, Mia Bella would give him a second chance.

I do have my handmade products but, I do dropship candle making supplies from gelluminations. I repeat. Everything listed on my site is handmade, by me except for the things you can acess by clicking on the crafting supplies button. The candles, lotion, soap, and all the other things like this are made by me.

Can't really tell if your being sarcatstic but either way, business is not "booming" but I have gotten several wholesale accounts which keep me purty busy. BTW: I have not had to deal with PL yet. I guess they will be the next to come around. We already have a Yankey, Woodwick, and Beanpod dealer around and they have about shut down. There are some people who will pay near $20 bucks for a candle but the customers are sure are not lining up.

Yeah, but there is a big difference between selling manuafactured candles and saying they are handmade by you and dropshipping supplies.

I feel for you. I use less expensive labels so I can deal with a little waste. Her is a tip though. If you are trying to get your printer aligned and it takes several tries. Keep using the same sheet. You should be able to tell which print is which. I had the same problems when I changed to a new printer. I had so much trouble that I just switched back.

Happy B-Day BTW

Isn't that the truth. I have dealt with them too.

The other candle maker in my are,a the oneI said something about in my post, has done this, LOL. We are sworn enemies but came together to overcome this guy. Anyways, she sent her grandaughter to my booth and the put lotion on one hand and Multi freshener on the other. She then ran quickly back to her grandma's booth where they took turns smelling:laugh2: . Even more funny is when her employees come and buy from me and make me swear to shut my mouth. I really respect the woman though. She is one of the reasons I started making candles and truly makes a quality product.

LOL, Not sure how many he has bought but when I talked to the other candle maker here she said he bought TON's from her and then walked in her shop one day and said.."What is in your candles? I have tried and tried to figure out so I could make some." I guess he thought she would just hand over a list of suppliers and instructions.

Thanks!! That really made me feel better, LOL

Well, Scent Sation or Mia Bella which ever one it is, has a policy against all the relabeling and advertising it as something it is not. I am proabably not going to report it. Just getting worked up over spilled milk.

Your very welcome. I need to work on mine and update and add more info and products to it.

I second NashvilleWraps. They are great and have beautiful packaging of all kinds.

A candle dealer has really upset me and the other candle maker in my area. He has been buying our candles and trying to break them down and find out what waxes wicks and FO ratios we are using. She has banned him from her store but I can't ban him from my store because I still have wholesale locations. Well, the other day my mom saw his vehicle driving in town and wrote down his website name. Well it turns out he is a mia bella dealer. He has been sticking labels with his company name over mia bella's packaging and selling it as HANDMADE. This really makes me mad. I was upset that he was trying to steal my candle information but lying to customers and saying that a factory made product is handmade, by you at that! This is not the only way he is screwing and lying to people though. He owns a cafeteria in a local plant called Raytheon. He is known for running up enormous bills and then filing backruptcy and opening the cafeteria back up as a different business. He has done this several times. I am seriously considering reporting him for first of all lying to his customers and saying that the products are handmade by him and second of all relabeling products which as you guys have pointed out to me before is illegal. What do you think about the situation?

Very nice site. The only suggestion I have is that you add your prices in or below your descriptions. I did not even notice the price in the title until I clicked on the buy now to see how much they were.

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The fragrance looked really thick so I just tossed it and used some of my own. The votives that I poured last night were dissapointing. The throw was not even there for the straight parafin. I decided to go try a blend that I hope will hold up better. I am going to burn one tonight and see. It was a 70% parafin 30% soy mixture. I am learning to hate parafin with the repour crap. Thats has been complete hell for me. I will definitly have to try some EcoSoya votive blend and see how it does. Thanks for the help.

You guys were all talking about flyers and brochures, etc and I thought about a company that my friend owns called Creative Publications. He does many products that might help you out and they are priced great. I have used him for many things after we became friends. If you are interested PM me and I will give you some more info. Some of his products include Business Cards 100 for 9.49 Brochures 25 for 29.49 Invitations 50 for 18.49 Flyers 25 19.49 Magnets 25 for 10.49 He has many more and there are price breaks as you buy more. He can ship and normally will have it to you in one week. HTH