Beautiful, affordable candles, home-made with natural Australian beeswax, soy wax and patterned palm wax
Products
Pillar candles
Essential oil scented candles
Glass container candles
Candles embedded with agate crystal slices
Standard Pillar Candle Sizes:
76mm x 88mm round pillar candle
76mm x 76mm x 88mm square pillar candle
76mm x 165mm round pillar candle
51mm x 114mm narrow round pillar candle
76mm x 165mm octagon pillar candle
100mm x 100mm pyramid candle (new!)
More coming soon!
Standard Wax Blends:
Premium Beeswax - 3/4 beeswax and 1/4 soy wax
Beeswax/Soy - 2/3 beeswax and 1/3 soy wax
Soy/Beeswax - 2/3 soy wax and 1/3 beeswax
Palm/Soy - 3/4 palm wax and 1/4 soy wax
I only use unmixed pure beeswax in small glass 'honey jar' containers with lids. I do make pure soy and palm wax pillar candles.
Standard Colours:
I make the Premium Beeswax candles with and without 'golden honey' colouring, a little of which adds warmth to the natural, more olive tones of beeswax. It is popularly used when making beeswax or beeswax blend candles.
I add the following range of colours to candles made with the other beeswax blends, soy and palm wax. A chart of these colours can be viewed here.
Golden Honey
Rust
Red
Teal
Magenta
Burgundy
Apricot
Orange
Purple
Yellow
Hunter Green
Misty Rain (green)
Primary Blue
Wedgewood Blue
Violet
Brown
Black
Grey
White (uncoloured)
Candle Scent Range
I rarely add extra scent to candles made with the Premium Beeswax blend - they smell beautifully of honey as they are.
I add essential oils/oil blends or fragrances to candles made with the other beeswax blends, soy and palm wax.
Please note that certain essential oils should be avoided during pregnancy. Please seek medical advice if unsure about whether you should use products containing essential oils.
Essential Oils:
Australian Mandarin
Bergamot Calabrian
Cinnamon
French Lavender
Lemongrass
Patchouli
Peppermint Eucalyptus
Pink Grapefruit
Rose Geranium
Australian Sandalwood
Rose Hip
Rosemary
Tea Tree
Rose
Frankincense
Clary Sage
Wintergreen
Cinnamon
Aniseed
Ylang Ylang
Essential Oil Blends:
In Essence 'Thai Temple' (jasmine, rose, sandalwood, citrus)
In Essence 'Passion' (orange, lime, ylang ylang, sandalwood, neroli)
In Essence 'Motivation' (orange, cardamon, eucalyptus, lemongrass, peppermint)
In Essence 'Confidence' (lemon, lime, sandalwood, frankincense, pine, myrhh, jasmine)
Saphira 'Relaxation' (lavender, bergamot calabrian, mandarin, lemon, cedarwood, roman chamomile)
Fragrances:
Divine Honey
Nag Champa
Green Apple
Tea Rose
Honeysuckle
Carnation
Coconut and Lime
Chocolate
Ginger Flower
Spicy Apple
Coffee
Jasmine
Frangipani
Please comment if you have any enquiries or would like to place an order.
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Oh, boy. I am having a rock nerd moment. Or is that cave nerd moment? Whatever. I was just browsing through some Parks Victoria and related sites and found these links. Look!
Ganked from artbroken... I do rather enjoy doing some of the music memes.
Go to the Wikipedia home page and click random article. That is your band's name. Click random article again; that is your album name. Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.
So... Mamikonian have a new album, Acylphosphatase*, with the following tracks:
This article was in our local paper (the 'Preston Leader') this morning.
Smile To Cut Crime
by Heather Gallagher
Do you smile at strangers? You will soon if police have their way.
As part of a crime prevention strategy, Darebin police are planning to install 70 signs throughout the municipality, declaring the streets "smile zones".
And smiles will be recorded starting with a Preston Neighbourhood Watch group, which launched the campaign at West Preston Primary School last week.
Neighbourhood Watch coordinator Sue Agar said two streets had been designated for smile counts where volunteer auditors would record how often people greeted them with a grin.
Six smile signs will be installed around Gilbert Road and Jesse Street.
Ms Agar said she hoped the program would lift spirits.
"We'll suss people out and see how many smiles we get," she said. "It's been proved that if neighbours know one another crime comes down."
The areas will be audited a second time within a few weeks to see whether the number of smiles has increased.
The program's facilitator Sen-Constable Sophie Leete said other streets earmarked for the first stage of the roll-out included Bracken Avenue and Albert Street in Thornbury.
"The purpose is to increase community perceptions of safety, and encourage friendliness and neighbourliness in the local area," she said.
The smile campaign has already been tested in the City of Port Phillip.
Streets in Port Melbourne and Elwood have been found to be the friendliest in that area.
A pedestrian will be smiled at or nodded to by one in 10 people walking past, according to Port Phillip Council's audit.
I can't resist. I do love this song - and the video - especially the Bowie montage bit.
Also, parts one and two of 'Jazzin for Blue Jean' - a short film by Bowie, directed by Julien Temple in 1984. The quality of the video isn't brilliant, but it's still fun to watch.
At least, if you're a Bowie fan, it's fun to watch. :-)
We have a new little kitten and she is so incredibly cute!
benedictesque was a bit hissy when he first met her. Since their first encounter, he has been coming into my bedroom where we're keeping her at the moment and looking poleaxed at her. Occasionally he makes an ominous rumbling noise and Dorothy (Dotty for short) just gets hissy back, or scampers and hides under my bedside cabinet.
And each time Benedict comes in, she gets up the nerve to go up to him, as I sit close and watch like a hawk, ready to grab either of them if they get cranky. She edges closer and closer to him, and then for a moment he'll sniff her nose and it's almost a harmonious moment.
Then Benedict backs away, rumbling more than ever, and leaves the room in a huff.
...and then, 5 minutes later, he comes back in and they go through the same procedure all over again.
We're being careful to pay both of them a lot of attention, so neither kitty feels neglected. :-)
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