June Sale is On!!! - Great savings!

I took the plunge and decided to do a special June Sale on my Premium 10 oz, 16 oz, and 26 oz Jars!

Shop now on my website - http://www.blisscandles.com - and get great prices on these stylish jars!

Premium 10 oz Jars - $10.75 EA


Premium 16 oz Jars - $15.75 EA



Premium 26 oz Jars - $18.25 EA

Stock up now! All 200+ fragrances, including Christmas are on sale.

Enjoy and have fun out there!
Suzanne

The Spring Sale is ON!!!

It's that time of year...time for our annual Spring Sale!

Take 15% OFF any order placed on our regular website - http://www.blisscandles.com/ - now through March 30, 2009. Use discount code "SPRING" at checkout to get the discount!

Recommendations of "The Chef" for Spring:

• Fresh Cut Grass
• Lilac
• Tulips (YC Type)
• Hydrangea (YC Type)
• Lily of the Valley
• Garden Pavillion
• Spring Bouquet (YC Type)
• Key Lime Pie (YC Type)
• Violet Lime
• Lime Cilantro
• Orange Spice
• Orange Ginger
• Spring Rain
• Shore Breeze
• Pineapple Paradise
• Coconut Bay (YC Type)

Have fun shopping! -Suzanne

What's the Big Deal?

I often have people ask, "What's the big deal about Bliss Soy Candles?"

First...I only speak for my own soybean candles. I named my business, "Bliss," for a reason. When I first started making candles, the difference between mine and others was very noticeable. They were much stronger, burned better, and the colors were beautiful (thank goodness I paid attention in that Kindergarten class on blending colors!).

If you buy a Bliss Soybean Candle, here is what you can expect:

1. Zero to little soot. Soy wax produces little to no soot if burned AND made properly (keep out of drafts, use the appropriate amount of oil, etc). I use the no more than the maximum fragrance recommended to make sure you don't get soot.


2. An attractive container that you can be proud to display in your home. There is a reason why I search for cool lids and cute candle caps - I'm a very picky decorator! It would always drive me crazy when all I could find was jelly jars.


3. A candle made with the best ingredients available. My candles are often pricier for a reason. You pay for quality. I don't buy from people who sell "discount oils." I buy the most awesome wax on the market. Most of my jars still say Made in the USA!


4. Metal - free wicks. My wicks are all made with paper and cotton...period. No zinc or lead to worry about.


5. A stronger candle. Most of my fragrances are quite strong. Cozy Home, Hot Apple Strudel, Clove, Victorian Christmas, Christmas Berry...oh I could go on! There are also several that are on the lighter side. Many of your vanilla or clean fragrances are softer. The food fragrances and fruit fragrances will knock your socks off!


6. A better burn. If the instructions on the back of my candles are followed, they will burn across every time and straight down to the bottom of the jar using nearly all of the wax. And if you are a "liquefy" junkie like me, you'll love the burn pool on these!


7. Beautiful colors. I love color and I am very picky about my dyes.


8. A candle that supports American farmers...they make the soybeans (yep..this stuff really comes from soybeans!).

I'll admit it. I love my candles. If you look at my Etsy feedback, you'll see I'm not alone!

DISCOUNT!! If you read this entire article, take 5% OFF in any of my shops below. Just use the code BLOG at checkout and I will send you a refund!

Etsy: http://blisscandles.etsy.com/

ArtFire: http://blisscandles.artfire.com/

Lollishop: http://www.lollishops.com/bliss-soybean-candles-and-gifts

Regular Website: http://www.blisscandles.com/

-Suzanne

Bliss Features - I'm So Excited!

I am so excited! I got two different convos today on Etsy from other artists letting me know that my work has been featured - once in a blog and once in a Storque article! Check it out - here are the links:

Storque Article: http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/featured-buyer-ez-of-creature-comforts-2675/

Blog Feature: http://designsbycori.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-feature-bliss-candles.html

Don't forget to keep an eye on my website and my Etsy shop! Take a peek at the stores my candles are in on the Stores page. I am now in Grand Haven, Pennsylvania, California, and Canada!

http://www.blisscandles.com/

http://blisscandles.etsy.com/

Suzanne

Tuesday Night Special - Sept 30

Tonight Only in my Etsy Shop - September 30th!

SIX - Premium 10 oz Jars for $60 and $12.50 Shipping (Total $72.50)

(Regular $12.95, Two for $23, or Six for $66)

Just choose the ones that you would like and I will send you a revised Pay Pal request when you are done!

Here's the shop address: http://blisscandles.etsy.com/

Have fun! -Suzanne

Super Sunday Special

For my Super Sunday Special, I decided to keep my $18 Deal rolling on my wonderful Premium 26 oz Jars. These are normally $23.95 each. Follow this link to the Etsy listing.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15349796

If you would like more than two of these, please let me know and I will update the listing or make a special one just for you. Have fun shopping! -Suzanne

Just Arrived! New Fragrances

More New Fragrances Just Arrived!

We have been doing some very fun fragrance shopping over the last few weeks! Look what just arrived today!!:

• Autumn Spiced Tea - A creamy, seasonal spiced tea type, with a spicy clove/cinnamon and nutmeg top-note, a delicate green tea and ginger middle-note, with a creamy, sugary, milky-vanilla base-note.
• Brown Sugar Cinnamon - Sweet brown sugar kissed with a touch of Cinnamon Spice.
• Coconut Bay (Yankee Type) - Intoxicating scent of wind-swept palms and coconut milk. Wonderful!
• Pink Sugar (Type) - A sweet sugary lemon drop type with citrus top notes, spicy fruity floral middle notes and a sweet vanilla musky base note.
• Southern Praline - Nutty, sweet combination - great for Fall, Kitchen, and Christmas!

Stop in and check them out! http://www.blisscandles.com

Featured Etsy Shop: holycraft

Featured Etsy Shop: holycraft

The Etsy community is full of a multitude of talented artists. Amongst this community of talent is an incredible team called InteriorDesignTeam (AKA DesignStyleGuide). This team is comprised of artists who create furniture, pottery, home décor, photography, paintings, various artwork, candles, lamps, bedding, and more.
If you are looking to redecorate or just for something special, search “interiordesignteam” to find these fantastic artists. Today’s featured artist is a member of this talented team.

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1. What is your shop name and what do you sell? My shop name is thanks to my husband's creativity--Holy Craft! I sell an assortment of things, but my main items are customized wooden blocks, infant/toddler hair bows, and squash albums.

2. What is your shop URL? http://holycraft.etsy.com/

3. When did you start selling on Etsy? I started selling in May 2008, so I'm still a bit of a newbie :) I started a craft blog and had several friends ask if I was selling on Etsy. Finally I gave in!

4. What is your favorite thing about Etsy? I love seeing all the fabulous handmade creations that are out there. Etsy has such vast talent! I also LOVE the street teams! I honestly don't know where my sales would be without them.

5. What is your favorite thing about what you sell? I started a lot of my crafting as gifts to people for baby/bridal showers and/or wedding gifts. I love creating something that makes someone else happy. Now, I love coming up with new designs for my blocks and I get so attached to them :) My hair bows started as solutions to my daughter's beautiful, but long and in-her-face hair. Hardly a day goes by that she doesn't wear a bow of some sort! The squash albums are just such a fun and surprising take on a gift album or brag book.

6. What is your favorite item in your own shop and why? I think my favorite item right now is my Customizable Wooden Blocks in Amy Butler's Lotus Tea Box--http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14686884 Amy Butler is one of my favorite designers and I just love the striking colors and pattern of these darling blocks!

7. What teams do you belong to? I belong to some wonderful teams! FAM (Fabulous Artistic Moms), EtsyMom, CAST (Christian Artists Street Team), FAST (Fiber Arts Street Team), EtsyHookers, ETSYWMI, and Interior Design Team (Design Style Guide).

8. What is the most fun thing you do to promote your shop? I love to promote my shop in the forums. It's fun for ME, but I don't know that it's the most effective. My other main way to promote is through my blog, http://holycraft.blogspot.com/. Recently I was able to promote my shop through the honor of being chosen as one of the finalists in the Etsy Handmade Kids Challenge--Home Decor category. That was really cool!

9. What are some of your favorite finds by other sellers on Etsy? I have so many favorites! I love the work of the mother/daughter team of http://tootsieandgrace.etsy.com/. I purchased a "Maguire the Monkey" print, inspired by my son Maguire. It's just darling! http://elegansnobbery.etsy.com/ has the cutest "snobs" and sock monkey drawings. I love purchasing gift tags made from prints of her drawings. Not only do I love the kitschy jewelry and accessories from htt://luv4sams.etsy.com but I just crack up every time I read one of her descriptions! I recently purchased a "stash & go pouch" from http://ablemabel.etsy.com/ and love it! I love big purses, but all of my "junk" gets lost in them. I use the stash & go pouch to help keep my cosmetics/personal items/medications/bandaids/etc. organized in the vast cavern that is my purse :) Some of my other favorites are http://ljdesigns.etsy.com/, http://bamdesigns.etsy.com/, http://hullabalooboutique.etsy.com/, http://koriclarkdesigns.etsy.com/, and http://novitajulien.etsy.com/.

10. What do you do in your spare time? Spare time?? Ha! I love to read, play outside with my 2 kids (Ashlyn age 3 and Maguire age 20 months) and husband, crochet, scrapbook, wander through Hobby Lobby and local fabric stores, sing and dance (in the privacy of my own home or car!), drink coffee and diet dr. pepper, and spend time online blogging or chatting in the forums on Etsy.

11. Do you have anything else you would like to share? My blocks recently also became available on a fabulous new website http://www.gokye.com/. Check out that Go Kye has to offer for children and babies!

About My Etsy Shops!

About My Etsy Shops!

I had so much fun doing this for another blog, I thought I would put it on my own!

1. What is your shop name and what do you sell? I have two Etsy shops! My main shop is Bliss Soybean Candles and Gifts which sells high end, decorative soy candles in jars, teas, gift sets, and the occasional votive. My other shop, Posies for Lewis, sells photography.

2. What is your shop URL? http://blisscandles.etsy.com/ http://posiesforlewis.etsy.com/

3. When did you start selling on Etsy? Back in 2007. I actually gave up after a few months in 2007 and then came back in 2008, learned the “tricks of the trade,” and began to do very well. Posies for Lewis opened in 2008.

4. What is your favorite thing about Etsy? There are so many! Etsy has such a wonderful range of artists. Where else can you go and buy a $2 item or a $2000 item, both of which are fantastic?! I love turning people on to Etsy. From the seller side of things, the buyers are high caliber. I have sold on other sites as well and I just find the experience with Etsy buyers to be top notch! I also love the teams I am on. People are so wonderful and supportive. It is fun to create treasuries, network, blog, and all of that good stuff

5. What is your favorite thing about what you sell? I have to admit I am one of my biggest fans. I have always been a candle addict – especially soy because it is just so much healthier and performs so much better than other waxes. I often tell people if you can’t afford to buy from me, at least promise me you will buy soy. I am so proud of my items because I know the quality is top notch and I love almost every single one of my 140+ fragrances! Sorry…I just can’t stand Patchouli and Clove…not my thingJ I’m all about the food, Fall, and Christmas fragrances making this my favorite time of year! I love to put fun gift sets together and am always keeping my eyes open to see if my suppliers have added any new jars or lids.

6. What is your favorite item in your own shop and why? Oh dear! That’s tough. I LOVE my bigger jars. The Premium 16 oz jars are my fave because of the rusty lids. However, being a candle addict, a girl needs more candle than that so I make the 26 oz for myself! My favorite fragrances are Pumpkin Souffle, Pumpkin Spice, Vanilla Hazelnut Pumpkin, Cozy Home, Cinnamon Buns, Cinnamon Spice, Cool Citrus Basil, Spiced Apple Pecan, Energy, Coconut Bay (new!), Caramelized Pralines, Victorian Christmas, Twigs of Spruce, Balsam and Spice, and Pumpkin Pie. I have several more but those are ones I can’t do without!

7. What teams do you belong to? Etsy West Michigan, Interior Design Team/Design Style Guide, Cruelty Free Etsy, MICE, and Cottage Style. All are wonderful teams!

8. What is the most fun thing you do to promote your shop? I do so many things. I love to comment in Treasuries and create them. I am just never home any more when they open up! I like to talk in the Forums. My new favorite is doing Etsy Shop features on my blog (http://blisscandles.blogspot.com/) and MySpace page. I am always developing promotional materials. I have the best time with this because I create my own stuff and send it off to VistaPrint and it looks like I paid big bucks – too cool! Yes, I am a computer nerd

9. What are some of your favorite finds by other sellers on Etsy? I have so many! I love Serendipity’s stuff – always have: http://anneball.etsy.com/. I found a handbag shop that is way cool: http://daphnenen.etsy.com/. Dennis Anderson is very inspirational and has wonderful products. He has been so successful on Etsy that he quit his job!: http://dennisanderson.etsy.com/.

10. What do you do in your spare time? Ha! I don’t have spare time. I have been making time to go to the beach lately though and it is time to start thinking about raking leaves and cleaning up the yard.

11. Do you have anything else you would like to share? I highly encourage people to shop and sell on Etsy. The sellers and buyers are wonderful and the products are outstanding. If you are a seller, don’t give up. Learn the tricks and eventually it will pay off!

10% Discount now Until September 6th!

"In Honor of" Garfield Park Craft Show SALE!!

Since we aren't doing Garfield Park this year, we thought we would offer a discount on our website! Now through September 6th - Take 10% OFF any order on http://www.blisscandles.com/ OR http://blisscandles.etsy.com/.

Use Coupon Code GARFIELD at checkout.

Have fun shopping! ~Suzanne

Candle Club Discount Now Valid on My Etsy Site!

The Bliss Candle Club 10% discount is now valid for my Etsy site!
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Join the Bliss Candle Club and enjoy these benefits:

• 10% Discount on EVERY internet order you place
• Special discounts and deals throughout the year
• 5% Discount at Shows with your Club Card in 2008 (EXCEPT BENEATH THE WREATH)
• Birthday discounts and gifts
• Earn credit when you refer friends to Bliss

Sign up today! EMAIL us at customercare@blisscandles.com with:

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