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I started smelling a caramel-type scent a few days ago in the room where I keep me candle stuff and I finally found where it's coming from. You know when air leaks from your bottles and the bottle gets "skinny" through the middle? Well, my caramel pecan from Ky did that to the point the plastic bottle cracked open and leaked scent all over my carpet. Of course, it was a 16oz. bottle that was nearly full. Anyway, what is the best thing to get this stuff out of my carpet? Also, I'll never pour this scent again I'm so tired of smelling it---uugghh!!! Thanks!!

luscious-looking! I can actually smell the coffee as I look at the soap!

Love all the cuts and the color combination is perfect for the scent--GORGEOUS!!

Your soaps are always so beautiful!

Stunning soaps! I truly think that when I use a wonderful-smelling soap that's also gorgeous, it just lifts my mood and makes me smile:)

I have tried many coconut scents and my favorite is from the Scent Works. My second favorite is from MMS, although I do pick up slight hints of pineapple in the background, but I love it. For a sweet coconut, I like Caribbean coconut from the Scent Source. I didn't care for Peak's in my wax formula. HTH

J&J bedtime bath (I love this all year, though), Caribbean coconut--that's all I can think if right now. I know I'll think of some more as soon as I post.

Hi. Our sewing group just made our pastor and his wife a t-shirt throw from their deceased son's shirts. We found a quilt pattern of different sized blocks all working together being put together with sashing. We used fusible interfacing, cut the different sized squares of intersting pictures, logos, labels etc. And then we just sewed them together with a plain color for sashing and binding. We didn't use the whole shirt. It turned out really nice and seems to have brought them comfort. I don't see why you couldn't do the same with multiple squares and make a bed sized one for your son. My granddaughter wants a jean quilt when she leaves for college. Thank goodness she is only a sophmore and I'm collecting jeans now! Good luck. It will turn out awesome. Beth

Beth,

My mom made 2 jean quilts for twin size beds for my brothers when they were younger. She backed them with red bandana material. My brothers still have them today and their kids use them. I'm sure your granddaughter's will be perfect and she'll LOVE it because it was made by grandma!

Thanks everybody! I'm gonna keep saving the t-shirts so the quilt will be big enough to cover a full size bed--so glad I started early!

I WANT ONE for this next Christmas!!!

I have been saving my son's t-shirts because eventually I want to have a quilt made for him. I have 2 questions--how many t-shirts do I need to save for a full-size quilt and is it a big deal if they are different sizes?

He LOVES anything Star Wars so I've saved all of those but the size of the t-shirts range anywhere from 5 to 10/12 and I'm still saving them. I've also got a few other graphic tees he loves (Phineas and Ferb, Mickey Mouse from our trip to Disneyworld, etc.)

What are your thoughts? Thanks!

. . . where do you get it? What do you buy for yourself (doesn't necessarily have to also be for customers, either) from suppliers to wear in lotions/body butters, perfumes, or use as soap that you LOVE?

Yes Chuck_35550, both the regular creme brulee and the creme brulee supreme remind me of Ky's old formulation, the supreme is just stronger. (LOVE that scent--alone and as a mixer)

Oh that used to be such a great pineapple and now I have a pound of perfumy pineapple that smells really off. I wondered if the Creme Brulee Supreme might be like the old Creme Brulee formulation that I eventually found at KY?

Steve

Another vote for The Candle Source's cinnamon & sandalwood. I also love their J&J Bedtime bath--my personal favorite from them.

I love their graham cracker (use it alone and as a mixer). I'm not a big patch fan but really did like the Tuscan patchouli. I also really like their sugar cookie, Mexican vanilla, creme brulee supreme, and cedar & saffron. I did NOT like the pineapple slices.

Ditto--I love the one from Southern Scentsations.

SouthernScentsations has a great FigMelon

Wow! Those are gorgeous!

Ky's, Southwest Candle Supply (formerly Just by Nature), and Starville (now Tyler) all smell similar to me and I LOVE them! Southwest also has a creme brulee deluxe--pricey but I did use less fo per pound and it smells just like the regular creme brulee only richer and stronger.

The vanilla extract was nice with good throw, but the vanilla bean was a deeper, richer vanilla. Neither had buttery notes and both were only mildly sweet. I liked the vanilla bean the best of the 2 and would consider using it as my vanilla.

Hi... how was the vanilla from this company? I am in search of a really good one.

I use Southwest Candle Supply's graham cracker and it, to my nose, smells similar to BW honey gingerbread.

I poured pumpkin pie (OT) using my parasoy blend, into my 15oz. dodecagon jars, using 60-44-18Z wicks--used and did everything the same as I always do. About 1/3 of the way down the jar, the flames got smaller and eventually drowned out. The top half of the burned wicks are a light gray/ash color while the bottom half of the burned wick is black. What the heck is going on? Usually they will burn straight down with no drag on the sides of the jar. The wicks aren't a new batch nor is the scent. The wax is a new box, but I've been pouring other scents with it that have burned just fine. Just when you think you're doing things right and consistently, a kink gets thrown in . . . . . .

cactus & sea salt is very nice--clean and green; bahama mama is nice, too. Her caramel cinnamon latte is wonderful and strong. The cranberry orange used to be my personal favorite, but the last bottle I purchased smelled different--not completely different but enough so I noticed the difference. The iced cinnamon buns is a nice cinnamon/vanilla and the pumpkin pie spice is strong and spicy, which I really like.

That's what I did last year when I made some m&p soap with red curls in it--called it peppermint twist.

If you want some reeeeaaallly long soap curls, what I used to do was pour a thin layer of MP in a silicone brownie pan. I would let it set up and when it was still warm but firm, remove from the brownie pan onto freezer paper and cut into strips. Then I would roll the strips manually into nice long soap curls! There's probably an easier way but nothing I ever do is easy! LOL

Oriental Trading has really cute ones for Christmas, too. What a great ideal--I may have to make some m&p with these little bendables in them.

Candlewic's sugared vanilla shortbread and Moonworks (Venus Candles) sugar cookie royale.