redraider

I am doing a big holiday show in a couple of weeks and I ordered some snowman plug in warmers(nightlight style) and am thinking about making up a few gift baskets to take with me. Perfect gift for teachers, Christmas party hosts, that someone that shows up unexpected for Christmas dinner or gives you a gift out of the blue.

Thanks. Still practicing on the shrink wrap corners!! I went back and put a label on the side of the box that they were not for human consumption because people kept thinking they were candies, lol.

Just made these to see if they would even sell or not. Sold most of what I made and have decided to make some in the shape of snowflakes for Christmas season. Hope to sell out!!

Officially on the labels I still put cracklin birch however whenever my friend orders it is crack she asks for. I do feel like a drug dealer sometimes however. Meeting people in parking lots and exchanging items in boxes for cash.

All I know is be careful when texting it. When I gave the first 6 to my sales person to take out on the road and sell she ran out in 20 minutes. When she tried to text me she needed more cracklin birch the autocorrect changed it to "crack bitch". I laughed so hard I almost tinkled, lol. Now we just call it crack since it seems to sell as well.

Their pomegranate and blueberry pomegrante are to die for. I get the A Grade. Have used their Lovespell before when TN would be out and had no problems subbing.

I use oils from both places. Sissy's Sugar Cookie is one of them along with some others. I usually order from BCS because they do carry some oils from BCN that I use. That way I can get most of my stuff from one place. Sometimes I do have to order from BCN. I would suggest looking at the scents you are interest in from BCN and see if they carry them at BCS.

The only fragrance I made to a point to have a dup of is the Circle E Bird of Paradise. I live in Texas and that is the #1 selling candle here. Bird of Paradise is a common scent with fragrance oil suppliers but none of them smell like the Circle E. It took me months of testing and mixing to get one I liked as well as theirs. Is mine exactly like theirs, no, but it is just as good. The time and money spent was well worth it considering it is either my #1 or #2 seller, depending on the season. Sold over 2000 of those in the last year. I do have a few others that are dupes that are just ones I ordered from oil suppliers. Some of them I didn't even realize they were dupes. Whenever someone ask me for a Scentsy one I just tell them I am not Scentsy and I don't have a clue what theirs even smell like since I have never used any of their products.

I hate leather, I hate coconut. My customer love leather. My customers love coconut. I make leather, I make coconut. I even have a couple that like the candle layered with leather and coconut. I always make sure the scents I don't like are the last ones of the day that I pour. That way I go straight inside the house and clean up ASAP.

They are about 50% off retail price at least. I didn't have to provide credit reference. Just my tax id #. They require payment with a credit card at time of order if I remember correctly.

We use the Leather from Lonestar and everyone loves it. I personally can't stand the smell but we sell it like crazy.

I would take your best Fall Scents whether that be 5 or 8 different ones and maybe stick a year round seller, something clean. I would only take 1 size and take 6 of each. Sure enough if you only take 3 someone will by all three of your best scent and then you won't have any others for people to smell. i would even put an extra case of your best fragrance under the table. If you only take one size take an expmple of the other size and then you can take orders for those. Be sure and takes lots of business cards. Some may not want to buy that day but will call later.

I have some tarts left over that I made for last Christmas sales. I really hate to sell them because they are were made last year. Would it be possible to remelt them and mix with new wax, color and oil. Maybe 50/50 to refresh them?

I finally put some out to sell today and they are gone!!!. Made Leather, Abercrombie and Fitch Fierce(Type), Pink Victoria's Secret(Type) and Fresh Linen. The leather was the first to go believe it or not. I guess I better order more bottles.

I am going to need one also. I hope they decide to keep carrying this when they restock oils, I hope they still plan on doing that even. I got lucky at got some early summer. Perhaps Agilex or someone can dupe it.

Sea Petals from LS is a good clean scent.

What's your name? Jill How old are you? 46 Where do you live? Lubbock, TX How long have you been making candles/soap/whatever? 2010 How did you get started making candles/soap/whatever? By accident actually. My sister and I purchased an existing business and she was going to make the candles and I was going to keep the books, handle sales, delivery, purchase supplies etc. Then she had to have surgery 2 weeks after we started so I got to do everything for a while. Are you married? Any kids? Marriesd almost 24 years. 21 year old son, 12 year old daughter. 2 dogs, 3 cats and that's it right now. If candle making isn't your primary job, what do you do? I am an accountant by day and have no arts and crafts capability, at least I didn't. lol Anything else we should know? I am a huge Texas Tech Red Raiders football fan. Very hard to focus on the weekends for me during football season but somehow we manage to get things done in spite of it.

Candy corn sounds like it would have vanilla in it to me and usually anything with vanilla is a heavier oil so I would think that could still be suspect.

I am in business with my sister. She makes most of the candles, tarts etc. I handle the sales, marketing, materials ordering, delivering, customer service, website etc. For my sis it is the only source of income. For me I work full time as an accountant so no the candle business would have be really grow to replace what I make doing my day job. However my day job is my fathers company so I do get to spend alot of my day time taking care of the candle business, so I guess in a way I do make a living doing this.

Fresh Lemon for The Candlemakers Store is good if you are already getting stuff from them

Cinnamon Vanilla-Custom Blend Bird of Paradise-Custom Blend Butt Naked-NG

That the same thing we do.

Spiced Cranberry!!

Their French Vanilla & Oak is a good seller for me. Year round but more so in the fall

Their cranberry orange spice is wonderful, fall festival and sugared spruce are good as well.