...Cake. As a candle. Holy shit it's going to be amazing...I ordered the 1oz sample today!! German chocolate cake is blended with semi-sweet chocolate chips and laced with crunchy toffee bits. Vanilla creme and butterscotch syrup with hints of almond and coconut round out this delectable scent. I can't wait to try it!!

But, that's not the point of this post. I am having a pre-Black Friday sale. Because I'm awesome like that. 50% off shipping. Which, that's kind of a big deal, especially if the order is big enough to use a box. Which, it just may be if you order a candle more than 4 ounces, or more than one candle. The way I've set up shipping to work is this: If you order a 4oz candle, shipping is $3.50. More than one, add $.50 per additional candle. For 8oz candles, shipping is $6.50 for one, adding $1.00 per. To ship just one 8oz candle costs between $5.45-6.00 just thru USPS, but I also need to recover the cost of bubble wrap and boxes. So, 50% off shipping is a great deal. I will start the sale now, and it will end on 11/16, a week from now.

You can take a look on my Etsy HERE to see what's available...however, do not order from Etsy. There is no coupon code you can create for 50% off shipping, so you will have to message me your orders either here, on the Facebook page, my personal Facebook if you're friends with me there, or my email: crystal_helgeson@yahoo.com. I will calculate your orders and take the discounted rate off of the shipping price from there. I will accept PayPal, cash, check, money order, or Bitcoin. (@Marica0701: I learned of a new currency tonight you might be interested in learning about, called AmiCash. You can check out a FB page HERE.) Of course, I will always accept a trade offer I'm interested in if you also make and sell items.

I've been working almost all day...took a break to watch a couple episodes of Sherlock, and watched a movie called Thrive, but other than that been doing research on new and interesting scents...there are so many I want to sample!! But for now I will settle with the seven I ordered today, including Better Than Sex Cake

I hope you enjoy the sale...after all, Christmas is all about giving, and candles are a great gift to give. I personally have given candles as gifts many times. And, 50% off shipping ends up being a bigger savings than giving 20% off the items you're buying

Since it's kind of late (or, early in the morning...), I'll spread the news to the Facebook page and my personal Facebook tomorrow...so whoever is up now gets a head start on the sale... I'm also listed on HERE on Agorist Marketplace, and I will spread the news on the Agorist Marketplace FB page tomorrow as well.

REC to spread the cheer of a pre-Black Friday holiday sale (and you know I never ask for those )

I can't remember what movie that's in, but it's in something..

After a bit of anxiety and freaking out, I have a solution to the problem. I will move down to my mother's house and work for her selling eBay stuff and work in the office for my step dad. But, only if I don't get any more unemployment. And if I don't find a fast job here. Cody said he would help me find a job too. My sister Taylor might move to California, but Rachel and Josh still want to look for a house. But what I truly want, is to grow my business. I need a bigger customer base...so I'm thinking of having another contest to broaden it. I hate working for corporations because I hate everything they stand for. I hate how they treat their employees unless you have a higher ranking in the pecking order. I don't want to live that way. I want to be in business for myself and work from home, but I need help from everyone in order to do that. I'm not expecting to become rich off of this, but what I do want is to have enough income from it to live comfortably. I know I can do that if I have enough customers. This is really important to me, and I'm constantly thinking of new things I can make, and how I can make them. I'm thinking of glitter in candles and soap...

Anyway, other than that, I have a paper to work on and creating invoices for Savory Scents. People also tell me I should create an order form. Maybe..but that might be difficult because I might not always have the same scents, and I plan on adding different scents. I have about 7 that I'm ordering sample sizes from a new website.

Anything else to update? Not personally, at the moment...just keepin on keepin on. School work, work work, sleep, and eat. Speaking of eat, I'm hungry!!

And I feel so tired I wanna fall over. I just finished catching up on filling out my admin work in the spreadsheet for Savory Scents..I was quite a bit behind. I have five orders to ship tomorrow, so yay. Two more orders to hand deliver, and Cody's family wants to order more, so sometime this week I'm going to bring one of each over and his mom and sister are going to place orders. On Wednesday I'll be ordering 1oz sample fragrances from a new website I found that has a TON of fragrance oils. Had some requests for soap so I ordered some soap supplies last night, and after the request is filled, I'll place the rest of them for sale to everyone else. Pre sold 7 bars of soap that aren't made yet, lol!

Speaking of requests, if anyone would like a special order, I can give you the websites I order from and you can look at the available scents...

All of my orders so far have been people just telling me what they want and if it needs to get shipped we use PayPal, and if it's someone I know I just deliver the product, bypassing Etsy...but tonight I made my first Etsy sale! Whoot!! Speaking of sales, Spring Rain soap is sold out. If you want to check out my Etsy, you can do so here.

My mother called and said she doesn't like the way I took pictures and she wants to re-do them all. I said no, I like them, and they aren't getting re-taken. It took me a lot of time to take those pictures...

I played poker yesterday. I lost most of the night and came back at the end. I ended up $1. Ha. But, we played for 10 hours, so it's not so bad to win only $1. Had some freakin delicious chili...mmm. And chip dip..gah I ate way too much yesterday. But oh well...was among friends. Have to live it up every once in a while

I have a rough draft of a paper due Tuesday. Haven't started yet. Thankfully it's only a rough draft so it doesn't have to be too coherent...but I'll be fine. I'm writing about how the invention of the printing press created change for the Church by being able to spread the "Word" faster by distributing reading and studying materials faster, but also made things stay the same by continuing to spread the word. Change and continuity. Even though I don't like or agree with the Church, I think it's an interesting subject...mostly because it involves the invention of the printing press. As a lover of books, I think it's fascinating.

Anyway, I need to get to bed before I pass out at my desk...

Well, I have the perfect gift giving solution: candles!! 12 of the scents are listed, with different options on each..4oz tin, 8oz tin, and 8oz jars. I lowered the shipping price, so that's awesome. You can check out my Etsy store to see what's available!

Yesterday I spent all day cutting and applying labels and photographing the candles..and today I've spent listing everything on Etsy, so yes, I've been productive. Now what to do...I still have to put the warning labels on the bottom of about half the candles...but I'm glad I'm mostly done. When I start getting revenue from the candles, I'm going to order some sample scents and also going to make lotions, since those seem popular with the testers, and maybe soaps. There are a couple people that have smelled some of the candles I've made and said they would buy soaps in a couple of the scents, so that's awesome.

Anyway, I know I haven't been around much lately, but I've been so busy..I'll try to be around later today and tomorrow.

You can check out my Etsy store HERE.

And here are some of the pictures I took:

The one above are candles ready to have warning labels put on the bottom