Holiday Special for Customers of Dogwood Square

Dear Friends,

We, at Dogwood Square know that money is tight this year, but with the holidays coming, everyone wants their house to look pretty and smell wonderful when those friends and family come to visit. So with the help of the Claire Burke Company, Dogwood Square is offering a holiday special with every order of Claire Burke products or Vitabath products.

The special is a full 14 oz. Claire Burke pillar candle which normally retails for $14.00, but during the 2009 holiday season it will only cost $3.00. The fragrance of these candles is Pomegranate Plum and it is a shimmer candle. The burn time of these candles is 70 hours.

Like a sugar plum fairy, this illuminating pillar candle twinkles with gold speckles and is sure to captivate. Enjoy the rousing aroma of Pomegranate, plum, papaya and vanilla.

Dogwood Square has been lucky enough to secure quite a number of these so there should be plenty for everyone. However, when they are gone, the holiday special will be over.

If you haven't decided on a gift yet for Aunt Sue or your secret pal, this is a wonderful and luxurious gift which you can get "for a song." And isn't that what we are looking for during this time when finances are in short supply. I think most folks can save $3.00 and buy that friend or family member something they will really enjoy. I don't know many folks who don't like candles.

So consider a purchase of time-honored Claire Burke Home Fragrances or luxurious Vitabath bath and body products and get that extra $3.00 gift to finish out your holiday shopping. You won't regret it!

Until next time...
Della

Thinking About Gifts for the Holidays Yet???

Dear Friends,

The chill is beginning to be in the air and if you are thinking about gifts for the holidays, then you should stop by Dogwood Square.  We have some of the MOST wonderful soy candles ever.  We have just added several lines of soy candles to the site which you can see on the soy candles page.  Not only are there a lot of fragrances to choose from (over 400), the prices are so so reasonable.

Then there are the gift sets by Vitabath.  I will remind you that our prices are THE LOWEST on the Internet for Vitabath products.  Go to the Vitabath page for information about these products.

And, of course our Claire Burke time-honored home fragrances.  It's time to put out that great smelling potpourri and stock up on the electric home fragrance refills in scents like:

• Apple Jack & Peel
• Pumpkin Spice
• Pomegranate Plum
• Christmas Memories
• Oh Christmas Tree
• Slice of Spice - new this fall

Our prices are great and also remember our every day FREE shipping for orders of $50 or more.

Come in and begin your holiday shopping with us today!!!

Until next time...

Della

Natural Soy Candles - The Right Thing to Do!

Dear Friends,

I have been carrying soy and soy blend candles now for several years. I like the whole idea of candles made of wax produced from soy beans. Why, well there are many reasons. Soy wax burns cleaner (no soot), it washes off with soap and water if it gets on something, the candles made of it last longer, it holds fragrance better, and best of all it is "green".

I consider myself to be a patriotic person. The thoughts of using, selling and promoting soy wax candles really appeals to my patriotic nature. This wax is made from soybeans which are grown in the USA by American farmers. Regular candles made of petroleum based wax is made from oil and I bet that oil doesn't come from America. And in this down economy, helping Americans and especially American farmers just seems like the right thing to do.

Another thing I like is finding candles made by "the little guy or gal". Those small, family-owned shops who have their own formulas and hand pour their own candles. I have found that these kinds of candles are unique in shape, fragrance, container or some other way which just sets them apart from the "big company" type of candles. Again, buying candles from them makes me feel like I'm helping them out. And again, it's just the right thing to do!

I have gone out and found several of these small shops who sell wonderful, lovingly created, hand-poured, soy candles in so many fragrance it blows my mind. I have put a bit about each company on my Soy Candles Page with links to other pages which gives all their fragrance descriptions and where you can purchase them.

I am sure you will love these new candles just as I do. The picture above gives you a representation of one of these soy candles. It is an 8 oz. Cracklin' Wooden Wick Candle. This one is Candy Corn and is scented with candy corn fragrance a warm vanilla candy with top notes of butter with a hint of almond. These candles are just like the other company's famous candles, except they are hand made and don't cost as much.

I hope you will help me support these small shops by buying one or more of their candles.

It's just the right thing to do!

Until next time...


Della

We Might as Well Dance!

Dear Friends,

I received an e-mail from one of my friends yesterday which has a very profound message and I thought I would share it with you:

Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they haven't thought about it, don't have it on their schedule, didn't know it was coming or are too rigid to depart from their routine.

I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut back. From then on, I've tried to be a little more flexible.

How many women out there will eat at home because their husband didn't suggest going out to dinner until after something had been thawed? Does the word 'refrigeration' mean nothing to you?

How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you watched 'Jeopardy' on television?

I cannot count the times I called my sister and said, 'How about going to lunch in a half hour?' She would gasp and stammer, 'I can't. I have clothes on the line.. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday, I had a late breakfast. It looks like rain.' And my personal favorite: 'It's Monday.' She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together.

Because Americans cram so much into their lives, we tend to schedule our headaches. We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to ourselves when all the conditions are perfect!

We'll go back and visit the grandparents when we get Steve toilet-trained. We'll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet. We'll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids out of college.

Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a litany of 'I'm going to,' 'I plan on,' and 'Someday, when things are settled down a bit.'

When anyone calls my 'seize the moment' friend, she is open to adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five minutes, and you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of roller blades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord.

My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream. It's just that I might as well apply it directly to my stomach with a spatula and eliminate the digestive process. The other day, I stopped the car and bought a triple-decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy.

Now...go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to......not something on your SHOULD DO list. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round or listened to the rain lapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight or gazed at the sun into the fading night? Do you run through each day on the fly? When you ask 'How are you?' Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done, do you lie in your bed with the next hundred chores running through your head? Ever told your child, 'We'll do it tomorrow.' And in your haste, not seen his sorrow? Ever lost touch? Let a good friendship die? Just call to say 'Hi?

When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened gift....thrown away..... Life is not a race. Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over. 'Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we are here we might as well dance!

Well, that's it...I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did are go out and have a GREAT weekend!!!

Until next time...
Della

P.S. I'm working on something new I will be introducing next week.

May We Never Forget...

Dear Friends,

I think I have mentioned at some point that my son is a Firefighter/Paramedic. My husband and I are so proud of him and all firefighters. Today, especially as we are reminded of that terrible day 8 years ago. The sights of those two towers coming down and all the pictures of Ground Zero still make me teary eyed.

Let us never forget all those people who died that day: the people in the towers, those in the planes, and those brave firefighters who went in to help them. Also, please don't forget their families and all the people who because they helped are sick or disabled today.

May We Never Forget...

Until next time

Della