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Thursday, October 30, 2008

just my thoughts!


Ok so I was looking on glitter graghics today for some cool sayings to put on my myspace profile.  And I found this. 





It made me think of myself.  And for once I can say I found something in writing that was really me.  

So Perfection that is what I want to talk about.
In my eye and I do belive in the eyes of many others.  There really isn't anyone in the world that is perfect.  So why does everyone strive for Perfection?

I think being perfact would be boring.  I am glad I am how I am, and if it wasn't for the little mess ups I made in life I wouldn't be me...

So I say on to you don't strive to be perfect.  
Have fun with ever breath you take. 
You only live once.  
So please do what makes you happy and don't worry about what others think.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Halloween is coming!


All of you know that Halloween is coming soon.  My daughter is going to be Hannah Montana this year like almost every other little girl.  But I decided to make some fingurless gloves for her to go with her costume.

So I had to show you all what I have been up to.  :)  Here they are I think I did well for it being my first pair.

Hope you all like them.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Whip Me Till I Clean

It seems like forever, but our latest product is finally done and ready! We're so excited. This soap is great for shaving, facial cleaning, as a hand soap, or for your bath or shower.

Don't let it's fluffy,creamy appearance fool you. This soap is on a mission to clean and leave you feeling soft and smelling great!

Over 6 months in development and it's finally here! Our whipped soap is made from scratch using only the highest quality all vegetable oils.

Whipped soap is amazing! Try it out and see for yourself!
Contains NO SLS/SLES, propylene glycol (a petroleum product), or parabens. Our fra
grances are Phthalate-Free. Oh, and it's vegan as well for those interested. :)

Have a creative Sunday and thanks for stopping by.

Dave and Erin Powell

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Saturday, October 25, 2008

Saturday Night Special

Well we haven't been getting much for sales so we thought this would help.

Great way to get gifts for others and some thing for yourself

~SNS~ 
Spend $20.00 or more before shipping and get a FREE pack of Breakaway Melts in your choice of scent

And any shipping overages that are $1.00 or more will be refunded.

So please take a minute and check out our shop Crazy Times Candles & Bath Co.

Have a Creative Day

Thursday, October 23, 2008

The holidays are coming!!!

So what are we going to do to help others this holiday season?

Well we have some soaps that didn't turn out the way we wanted them to so we are going to bring them to the Salvation Army here.  They will then in return hand them out to people in need.  

I also think I am going to volunteer to be a bell ringer this year.  So the Salvation Army can collected money to get things for families in need.


And last but not least we are thinking about doing an adopt a family this year with the help of our friends and people that love our products.  

This is what we are thinking about doing please let us know if it is a good idea or not.

We are going to offer that if someone buys a Pillar Set for $40.00 we will then in turn take $10.00 of that and use it to get stuff for our adopt a family.  I was thinking we would buy the stuff for the family mostly off of etsy.  There are a few things we can't get on there but most of it we can.  Let us know what you all think.

I (Erin) have also started making hats and scarfs that I am donating to the Salvation Army as well.  I just love this time of year.  Where I get to show people how much I care.  

P.S. please let us know what you think in a comment or email us at erin@crazytimescandles.com

Thank you all and have a creative day.  :)

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Scents???

As you all know we already have a lot of different scents for our candles and soaps. My question is what other scents can you think of that you would like to see?


Here are the scents that we already have:

Amber Romance® Type

Apple Pie

Aqua Di Gio® Type

Banana Berry

Blueberry

Butt Naked

Butterscotch

Cherry

Cinnamon Red Hot

Cinnamon Roll

Citronella

Citrus Musk

Cucumber Melon

Ginger Plum

Grandma's Kitchen

Heavenly Honeydew

Holiday Wish

Irish Coffee

Island Fresh

Lick Me All Over

Lilac

Lily of the Valley

Maple Toddy

North woods Forest

Oatmeal, Milk, & Honey

Ocean Breeze

Pear

Peach

Peppermint

Plumeria

Pumpkin Pie

Sandalwood

Sun Ripened Raspberry

Sweet Pea® Type

Tulip

Very Vanilla

Wine Cellar


If there are any other scents you would like to see in our shop please let us know. Hoping for a lot of responses :)





Friday, October 17, 2008

Free shipping on pillar trio sets

Well it is more the that.... We have a big shipping sale right now and if you spend $40.00 you get FREE SHIPPING isn't that a Great deal.

Here is our sale this weekend.

$0.75 shipping on single soap bars and breakaway wax melts to the U.S. and Canada!

Orders of $40.00 or more will enjoy free shipping.

You could get this for $40.00 when it would be normaly $50.00 with shipping :)

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

I know it has been a few days sence the last post on here, but we have been busy and when I say busy I mean busy!!! We made 3 batches for soap. We also have been testing soy container candles. Bring the kids to school and picking them up.

I have been checking out this new thing that I found called Stylehive.
It is a big networking site. It's really cool...


Oh and we have some more new items on etsy you should check out.



Spiced Apple Salt Spa Bar Soap











Chocolate Strawberry Salt Spa Bar Soap




We also have some great new Breakaway melts up HERE

thank you for check it all out. Have a Creative night.

Monday, October 13, 2008

What do you think???

Well Dave and I were thinking about splitting our shop.

We were thinking that because we have our shop name as
CrazyTimesCandles that it might be throwing people off.

So let us know what you think.
Should we keep our etsy shop as crazytimescandles and list both our candles and soaps in that shop.
Or should we open a new shop for our Soaps???

We sell so much soap in our shop but I think some people are not seeing our soaps because of it saying crazytimescandles.

The bad part about it is that we would be starting all over with a shop for soaps and some people might be thrown off with us not having any feedback.

The other bad part is that people wouldn't see our candles as much.

The pluses about it is that people would be able to see all of our soaps for the people that are looking for soaps and not have to see the candles if they didn't want to.

We just don't know what to do with this. Please help!!!

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Happy Day!!!

I'm so excited today.
My cousin Tara Came to see us.
See she is 32 weeks pregnant and she is not supposed to travel tell after she has the baby the doctor gave her and OK to do it this last time before the baby comes.
Tara used to come up and visit every other weekend and we haven't seen her in over a month. She left here about 5 minutes ago to go by her sister to get her baby swing before her sister goes to work. Then she is coming back to us for the night.
I can't wait for her to get back here :)


Other then that Dave is down starts working on making some more Ocean Breeze Salt Spa Bars because that is our BEST selling soap :)
I told him you might as well just make 2 batches right way so that is what he is doing.


The kids are over excited as well with it being Saturday and getting to spend some time with me and there Aunt Tara.
We are all going to play monopoly when she gets back.

Friday, October 10, 2008

New stuff!!!!

Well we all know the holidays are coming soon.
So here are some of our new and exciting
ideas we came up with.
Hope you like them all.




On the left is a Chocolate mint rustic pillar.

On the right is our fall mix melts yummy. Whe you put a black, white, and orange one in your melter it smells like Apple cider :)




On the left here is a Sun Ripened Raspberry pillar with little Raspberry melts in it as chunks.

On the right is a Reindeer Scented Stuffie. I have to say there really good room fresheners. And very cute.






On the left here is an Apple Pie pillar with apple melts put in as chunks.

On the right is one of the Blue hat Snowman Scented Stuffie.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Crocheted Bracelets



So I was bored yesterday and I decided
to make some crochet bracelets.
I have never done this before so
I was a bit worried on how I would do.
Well I played around with it for a few hours
then I decided ok enough is enough just
make it already.




And this is what came of it.
The kids loved them.
Now I am working on a few more for my cousins kids as well.
The always get excited when I make fun things for them.
When I get those ones done I will take some pictures as well.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Shipping Sale!!!

We're having a huge shipping sale!

Now's the perfect time to stock up or pick up gifts.

http://crazytimescandles.etsy.com

Bath & Body Products (excluding sugar scrubs) ship for only $0.75 each item USA / $1.00 each item Canada!

All Candles and Sugar Scrubs ship for only $4 USA / $6 Canada!

Don’t pay more than $5 Max shipping USA and $10 Max to Canada

Shipping charged over the listed max will be refunded.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Cameron's Hat and Scarf




So last night I finally finished Cameron's hat and Scarf.

Woo Hoo I am so excited to show off my handsome little man.

So take some time and look at this cute little guy for me.



This might be the cutest and sweetest little boy you will ever see in your life!

Ok maybe not the cutest to everyone but he is my son so you know how that goes.


He is the little boy that helps anyone and everyone that might need help. I am not just saying he is a great kid because he is mine, He has the biggest heart I have ever seen in anyone.

He puts everyone and everything in front of himself.

He gives and gives and never asks for anything in return.

To find that in any kids these days is hard.

So anyway that is enough about my handsome little man.

Let me know what you think of his hat and Scarf :)

Thank you for reading this.

Oh and this last picture is really for his Auntie Tara...

Monday, October 6, 2008

What a Great Day!!!

Ok so we had to run to the post office to ship some orders out like we do every Monday. Then we had to get gas in the van. We were excited about that as well because gas was only $3.39 a gallon. Woo hoo happy dance time.

Then we had to get some Kitty Litter for our little Princess so we went to Target. It was my first time out of the house sense I had surgery so I wanted to look around a little bit. And as all parents do we went right for the Toys because we didn't have the kids with us. We went right were we always go to the Clearance spot on a back wall.




And What do I see!!!!





A
3/4 Size Washburn Hannah Montana Acoustic Guitar


The one thing I know my daughter wants more then anything in the world. So we had to get it. :) They normally are $90.00 and it was on clearance for 22.75 What a great deal. That is just the prefect gift for Christmas.

We also got our Son Cameron some Star Wars Ships but they were normal price. But that is ok because us getting Alyse's present on clearance made it so we can get more for both of them.

It always makes us so happy when we can get our kids stuff they want or like. Our kids are easy to please but it is always nice to get them stuff they really really wanted.
So that was our exciting day today.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

The Grass :)



Oh August 23 I was looking around shops and found a Saturday Night Special in TheBumbleBeeStudio's shop. All we had to do is pay shipping. What a great deal.


This is what it looked like when we got it. So cute right.


We were very excited to have the kids plant the seeds.












They had lots of fun doing it as well. I do have to say that The Windowsill Wheat Grass grows like crazy.












TheBumbleBeeStudio
has a great shop and I hope to do some

of our Christmas shopping there.
Our daughter Alyse just loves to munch on
the grass with our little kitty Princess.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Hat and Scarf

Well winter is coming as we all know. Weather we like it our not. I am one of the ones that just wants it to stay fall. But I did manage to get a hat and scarf made for my daughter.



I made it for her in her favorite color, and she just loves it.
The morning after I finished it she saw it when she got up and I got the biggest hug and kiss for it.

I am working on my son's hat and scarf now so when they are done I will show you how cute that is a well.

Friday, October 3, 2008

I've been tagged

I have been tagged by twiddlestix! Take a look at her great blog: twiddlestix

Here are the details:

1. Link to your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog - some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blog.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Here are my 7 random facts:

1. I like to sing in the shower

2. I hate thunder storms

3. My favorite color is Purple

4. I'm married to my best friend for almost 8 years now

5. I am going back to school in a year

6. I like to crouchet even though I'm not really good at it.

7. I am an animal lover

Here are the 7 people that I am tagging:

MaryMarsh

UniqueCharms

Threeloudkids

brightonearly

artisanne-scotland

fancifulflair

paperchick

Thursday, October 2, 2008

WooHoo its party time :)

Do you want to earn free stuff for Christmas presents or just get some free stuff to pamper yourself well this would be a great idea for you then.

We host on-line candle, bath and body parties. Here is a link to the page:

On-line party

So now for some more info on here about the party's

They run for 2 weeks
You have to have them put your name in comments to get credit for it.
you get 20% in free stuff at the end of the 2 weeks. SO this means if you have a $400 party you will get $80.00 in free items.

You will receive a free 6 pack of tarts or a 3 pack of votives just for hosting a party with at least $75 before shipping in total orders.

I think you might want to do this we have had quite a few really good party's on our website already. There was one that $1000.00 Woo hoo so they got $200.00 worth of free stuff and we threw in a few little extras :) so if you are interested please mail us at:
erin@crazytimescandles.com

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

just and update.

Hey everyone sorry we have been slacking again on blogging. But I (Erin) had surgery today so we have been dealing with that lately.

It wasn't anything big I just got my tubes tied today. So we have been going over the hole are we sure we don't want any more kids for the last month or so. And we thought it was for the best. 2 kids is enough we have a boy and a girl so you really can't have anything else.

So everything went fine today and I am in a little bit of pain. So if I talked in circles you all know why now. :)


We hope to put up some pictures of a show we did a few weeks back tomorrow I think.