My story

About 3 years ago, I started making my own soy candles. Just for personal use, at the time, I had no interest in selling them - it was just a hobby!

After I while, I had to give it up. I was a new mum and struggled with finding time for the new baby, hubby, house, myself and THEN to add a hobby on that? I thought it was impossible. So, with a heavy heart, I sold all my candle making equipment and tried to forget about it :(

It wasn't until a year ago, I stumbled on a company called Atise. Atise offered some of the most beautiful range of soy candles and melts (aroma bars) that I had ever seen (and smelt) and I could choose between doing party plan, catalogue sales, online sales (through my own online portal) or a combination of those sales techniques...

I was hooked and immediately joined as a consultant. I started doing parties and LOVED it. I could work with my precious soy candles without having to spend hours over a double boiler messing up fragrance loads (trust me, it's more of a problem than it sounds haha)

It also meant that I had a steady income with no outlay of cash and no promise of return on investment (that part made hubby VERY happy)

The only problem with all that? Atise has been advised by their accountant that the party plan model just isn't generating enough revenue for them to consider it a viable business model and they need to raise their prices. Um, really? As much as I love soy candles and melts, Atise are already at the higher end of expensive and I guess even they figured raising their prices wouldn't help, as no one would buy them!

And so, it was with that, that I decided to get back in the kitchen and make my much loved soy candles and related items! (YAY)

I wanted to add a couple of pictures for everyone to look at an admire (at least almost as much as I do)