After Christmas Bargains

Dear Friends,

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas/Hanukkah with your families and are now enjoying your gifts.

We had a rather quiet Christmas this year. Our son and his family came over for Christmas eve and the baby (now 20 months) opened her presents. She is not quite old enough to know what all the fuss is about just yet. Next year will be a different story. She will understand and "Katie bar the door." From then on, it will be Christmas lists and all manner of begging and pleading for toys, etc.

They went to the other grandparents for Christmas Day so we had a very quiet day.

I am also writing this to let you know that I have put a Sale Items Page on the Dogwood Square website for all those items which are seasonal, discontinued, or retired. I have been holding on to them and selling them as folks requested them, but have decided to offer them all the time at discounted prices.

You will find old Claire Burke Fragrance Warmer Refills which have long been retired, also Claire Burke items in retired fragrances. There are Thymes items I still have left -- some retired some not, but all of them are in very limited quantities. As well as several other former items I have been holding on to for no apparent reason. I'm sure you will be able to find something you like or have been looking for, for a long time.

Well, it's time to wrap this up and wish each and every one of you a very Happy, Healthy, Prosperous and Safe New Year!

Until next time...

Della

Stock Up for the Holidays

Ahhh...don't you love the holidays!! The sights and sounds and oh, the smells of the holidays. It's that time of year: the days are getting shorter, school is back in session, everyone is talking about what their going to wear to the football game this weekend and for that matter, who is going to be there and who is going to win the big game. Memories or those summer beach parties are fading into the sunset.

Soon it will be time to start thinking about Halloween followed quickly by Thanksgiving and finally Christmas.

Let me tell you about some items we have at Dogwood Square which will get you in the mood for all that holiday festivity.

First of all Tyler Candles. Tyler candles come in so many wonderful holiday fragrances they are bound to make even the grouchiest person feel good. Fragrances like:

• A Christmas Tradition
• Candy Cane
• Christmas Cheer
• Eggnog
• Holiday
• Homecoming
• Mulberry Moments
• Mulled Cider
• Pumpkin Spice
• Seasons Greetings
• Snickerdoodles
• Vintage

Then we have more candles by Sweet Grass Farms:

• Baked Apples & Cream
• Coastal Bayberry
• Maple Sugar
• New England Woods

Then, of course, we have our famous Claire Burke fragrances that everyone loves:

• Apple Jack & Peel
• Pumpkin Strudel
• Christmas Memories & Oh Christmas Tree

So now is the time to start stocking up on all those holiday fragrances so when you are ready for those holiday get-togethers your house will smell as great and it will look.

Until next time...

Della

HAPPY NEW YEAR - Better Late Than Never!!

Dear Customers and Friends of Dogwood Square,





HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I have so many new ideas for this year, it's scary!

I hope that the promised change over to the new site can be
accomplished during the 1st quarter of this year. We put that on
hold for a while, but are now gearing up to move the site to a new
hosting company.

Many of the companies we have contacted have told us that because we do not have a "brick and mortar" location (in other words we are only found on the Internet, we do not have a physical store) they won't sell to us. We don't think that is fair, but we must adhere to all the rules. So we continue to look. If any of you reading this, have any suggestions of new products you would like to see us carry, please post a response to this entry and we will investigate.

We are seriously considering carrying Vitabath products since they are also distributed by Rich Brands who bought the Claire Burke franchise last September.

Speaking of Rich Brands and Claire Burke...the fragrance warmer refills still have not come in. However, we understand that they are going to be shipping in the next week or two. We still are taking orders and have maintained a large and growing backorder queue.

Don't worry! If you ordered refills and your order was put in the backorder queue, it WILL be filled just as soon as possible when our stock comes in. We have ordered 3 times as many refills as we need to fill our backorders.

Other new products looming on the horizon:

• I am working on an arrangement with a company called Oddity to create a sister site which we would link to. They offer beautiful seasonal home decor items such as: beautifully designed floral wreaths and garlands, candles, candle rings, and many other items such as you would find in Michael's or Hobby Lobby in the floral and home decor departments.
• There are many more baby monitor items which we have access to and have not had an opportunity to place on the site. We will try our best to add to this area in 2008. Likewise, we have advertised the Halo collection of baby clothing and have not had the time to update the site with our stock. That will be remedied this year.
• We have also started promotion of a new product for us -- Fragrance Lampes. The company we are working with is growing by leaps and bounds and we will be offering more styles and fragrances as time goes on. The lampes and fragrances we will carry are now and will be quality lampes and fragrances, but will be offered at a very reasonable price.

So as you can see these and perhaps some other things I am working on should make Dogwood Square an exciting place to shop this year.

We hope this year is going to be an exciting and prosperous one for all of you!!

Until next time...

Della