Posts Tagged ‘Scented Candles’
No Matter What Your Meditation, There’s A Colored Candle For It!
Using Colored Candles for Meditation
In today’s hectic, fast-paced world, more and more people are turning to meditation as a means of relieving stress and anxiety. Defined as a state of calm achieved by channeling energy on a single, restful focus, meditation has been linked to a wide array of benefits, including deeper relaxation, an enhanced immune system, improved circulation and blood pressure, and alleviation of pain from headaches and other medical conditions. Whether you’re suffering from a chronic illness or just feeling overwhelmed by a sink full of dirty dishes, meditation can help to detract your focus from the source of the anxiety.
There are many different methods of meditation used today, including yoga, breathing techniques, meditative music, and the chanting of mantras. Whatever type of meditation practice you choose, candles can serve as a highly effective and simple accessory for relaxation. Candles are a cost-effective way to add instant ambiance to your meditation space. Try turning off all artificial lighting and using only the illumination from the candles. The soft, flickering flame will help you to achieve a centered, tranquil state of mind, and can even be used as the focal point during meditation. By using scented candles, you can pair your meditation techniques with the widely acknowledged benefits of aromatherapy.
Candles For Kids, Benefiting Children’s Hospitals. You Gotta Love It!!!
Martin’s customers raise more than $500K for children’s hospitals
For the Cumberland Times-News
Cumberland Times-News
CARLISLE, Pa. - Demonstrating a hearty holiday spirit, customers at Giant Food Stores and Martin’s Food Markets contributed $530,689 during an in-store holiday campaign, simply by buying a candle. This will be adding to the $1.8 million already raised by the stores in support of the Children’s Miracle Network.
The grocery chain concluded its annual “Candles for Kids” campaign with a record-setting amount that will benefit hospitalized children throughout the stores’ operating areas.
“The outpouring of support from our customers and associates was nothing short of phenomenal,” said Rick Herring, division president. “On behalf of our associates and regional Children’s Miracle Network hospitals, I want to thank our customers for their generous support of children who are fighting for good health this holiday season.”
“Candles for Kids” is an annual two-week Children’s Miracle Network fundraising program that ran from Nov. 29 to Dec. 13. Customers were encouraged to purchase a paper candle during checkout for $1 each and to write their names on these candles, which were then displayed in the stores. In 2008, the stores’ customers and associates donated $527,640 during the campaign.
Seven Children’s Miracle Network hospitals will receive the donations: Penn State Children’s Hospital at Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Janet Weis Children’s Hospital at Geisinger Health Systems, University of Virginia Children’s Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital and Children’s National Medical Center in Washington.
Go Green! Recycle Those Christmas Candles
How to Recycle Your Christmas
Green Living Expert Danny Seo Shares Some Environmentally- and Budget-Friendly Holiday Recycling Tips
(CBS) ‘Tis the weekend to take down the tree and pack away all that Christmas clutter of bows, ribbons & candles - but it’s also the perfect chance to go green with your decorations and ornaments.
Green living expert and author of “Simply Green Giving” Danny Seo stopped by “The Early Show Saturday Edition” to share some holiday recycling tips that not only help the environment, but also cut costs.
There are simple, resourceful and easy ways to pack up all the holiday decorations, recycle unwanted gift wrap and bows, recycle holiday string lights, reuse delicious holiday candles and much more using everyday items you can repurpose and reuse.
How to save or recycle holiday candles:
Holiday candles can look out of place after Christmas, especially if they are emblazoned with scenes of “Rudolph” and Christmas trees. To save your candles for next year, use a ripped nylon hosiery to protect them and pack them in a box with tissue paper.
If you enjoy the scent of a holiday candle, but not the look, you can also chip them up with a hammer and fill a tea strainer ball with the fragrant candle wax. Leave the strainer balls in your dresser drawers or hang it in the closet as an instant room fragrance freshener.
Lighting Candles and Remembering Loved Ones Lost
Annual vigil illuminates lives of homicide victims
By JASON NARK
Philadelphia Daily News
narkj@phillynews.com 856-779-3231
Sister Helen Cole (center), Father Kenneth Hallahan (right) and neighbor Tyron David bow their heads during a candle light vigil in remembrance of homicides victims in Camden, New Jersey at the St. Joan of Arc Church on Tuesday, December 29, 2009. (Yong Kim / Staff Photographer) Daily News/Inquirer
In churches across the country right now, someone is kneeling before a row of flickering candles, sending up a silent prayer for a lost loved one.
In Camden yesterday, Sister Helen Cole lit a candle to remember 29-year-old Felix Rodriguez, the first of 34 candles she will light this year, one for each of the city’s 33 homicide victims and another for a man who died during a police-involved shootout.
Cole’s yearly vigil routinely leaves her bathed in the red glow of dozens of candles, which she lights individually every hour, but she said that each flame is also a prayer for her beloved city.
Young Indiana Entrepeneur Well On His Way with Candle Business
IU East student starts business
Switch from industrial engineering to business leads to own company
By Brian Zimmerman • Staff Writer • December 30, 2009
With his industrial engineering studies no longer cutting it, Blake Pieratt needed just eight weeks to validate his second choice: business.
That’s how long it took the 20-year-old Eaton, Ohio, man to become fascinated with entrepreneurship, forge a business idea and start earning money.
“I was studying industrial engineering at Sinclair College and I didn’t like it,” Pieratt said. “So I started studying business. It all happened pretty quick. I went from one step to another.”
Pieratt is now the founder of Wicks of Nature. He sells candles stored in emptied baby-food jars that are placed in a small wooden base.
Even the Kardashian Sisters Are Getting Into The Candle Craze!!!
Kardashian Sisters Partner With For Every Body To Produce New DASH Candles
Read more: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017389409#ixzz0bCrXy9kg
December 30, 2009
Anne Lu - Celebrity News Service News Writer
Los Angeles, CA, United States (CNS) - The Kardashian sisters have signed a deal with the largest woman-owned, soy-based, candle maker in the country to produce their new DASH candle and gel spray line.
Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe coordinated with For Every Body, the Utah-based candle company founded by Becky Anderson, to design the packaging and sent of their new products.
The new relationship started with a phone call from People Magazine after Kim chose For Every Body’s “Birthday Cake” as her favorite candle scent. Word reached the other party, and although the interview was never published, a new business partnership was developed.
The sisters’ candle line will be eco-friendly and will be sold in DASH store, as well as in department and retail stores such as Target, Macy’s and Nordstrom.
Kim said, “Our new DASH line of candles are designed and produced exclusively with each of our favorite scents in mind by For Every Body. They smell fabulous; we know everyone will love them.”
Down Mainers Capitalize on Candle Brainstorm
Machias Women Running Successful Candle Company
by WABI-TV5 News Desk · Dec 28th 2009 · See more Local News
Two women in Machias are proof that if you have a good idea, you should
act on it.
“Last November, Kelley Scoville and I were deciding what to do to make a little extra money for Christmas and our area sells a lot of wreaths, and we know that was over saturated and we wanted to be creative. And she said, I know how to make candles.”
From there, the Olde Tavern Candle Company was created. But they say it’s no easy task.
“First off, we have bulk candle wax we melt down and we specially color the wax to match the scent .”
Andrea Guerra and Kelley Scoville started the company and a few others have joined the team since.
Guerra says she’s in charge of the design and Scoville is on the technical side.
“So I researched different candle waxes. I researched for probably a month or two waxes, containers, scents, oils and color. I did a lot of work that way and it just all came together.”
Two Girls in South Carolina, Lighting Candles to Remember Their Loved Ones Seems to be Catching On
Family members light candles in memory of loved ones buried at Langley Cemetery
12/5/2009 11:51 PM
By RACHEL JOHNSON
Staff writer
Stephanie Anderson lights candles every year to honor and remember her family, but this year she had an extra one to light.
Anderson and her friend Gwen Boyd began lighting candles at the Langley Cemetery five years ago when the tradition was first introduced. The pair typically light between 20 and 25 candles each. First they lovingly remember their loved ones by placing a luminary at each of their graves and then together they canvas the cemetery, lighting up other graves.
Use Common Sense When Decorating With Christmas Candles This Year
‘Tis the season to take care with decorations, candles
By MELISSA M. SCALLAN - mmscallan@sunherald.com
GULFPORT - The holidays usually are a joyous time of the year, but they can turn tragic if people don’t use caution when putting up Christmas candles and decorations.
With lights outside and on trees and with candles burning in the homes , fire always is a concern right now, Gulfport Fire Chief Pat Sullivan said.
Candle safety is important all year, but more people tend to burn candles during the holidays, he said.
“I’ve seen numerous fires that we’ve responded to because of candles,” he said.
People often put candles too close to flammable items, and sometimes the candles fall over, he said. Pets also jump on surfaces near candles and knock them over. Sometimes people forget to blow them out before leaving home or going to bed.
More ‘Green’ Candles Popping Up in A Petroleum Drenched World
The Oil Industry Helps Launch a Hip & New Green Candle Company
Newly launched Mountain Mama’s Kitchen Co introduces the hip & new “Hand Poured” Soy Candles that Mama pours with lots of love for a healthy, sustainable and fragrant green candle.
Plano, TX December 6, 2009 — Sisters, Natalie Galyon and Paige McGee had a “green moment” and recently launched the boutique candle company, Mountain Mamas Kitchen Co., featuring hand poured Soy Candles. “We were unfulfilled and working in the oil industry when we realized we want make a positive impact on the world around us.”