Del Rio has had the strangest weather this summer. Mind you I am not complaining as it has not been nearly as hot as last year, plus we have had more moisture which is always a good thing when you live in Texas. So we may be indoors more often because of the Precipitation we have gotten, and that can make indoors also stuffy. Well I have a great solution for that, would you like to bring summer indoors but without the heat???? Try the candle scent of the month ( August),  Pineapple & Cilantro this aroma is sweet with the fresh scent of cilantro and mixed together is playful to your senses. But if that doesn’t tempt you, visit my fragrance page there are some other great nose ticklers to try, like watermelon & grapefruit,  pomegranate, cranberry splash, tangerine & mango I could go on and on, but I believe you get my drift. With the kids being home and people indoors more trust me this will make your home smell clean, fresh and full of summer sun, but again without the heat!!! Come and take a stroll down Valente Lane Candles and live!!!!

Well it has been very hectic with work and with my sons sports so my blog has suffered a little. But I continually try to improve my candles and products and web site. To begin first I am discontinuing my Honey Pot Jars, not because of look or style, but shipping and handling is just as much as the jars and had to get them from the East Coast. I found a simply elegant style jar that I can get right here in Houston called the Balmoral Jar. It also comes in 5 sizes, 5,9,16,24 & 32oz. I do not have to change lid designs and the way the jar is made they burn evenly. I simply love the new style which will fit in with any decor. Second we are working on my front page of my web site, which will now be featuring specials, news, pics, and latest to my blogs, that way when my customers come there they can see the latest and not the same old thing. I am extremely excited. Also put this on your calendar. June 2, 2007 the street market square will be in the evening from 6-9pm, there will be food tasting, live music and the streets will be blocked off for the activities, I’m telling you this is going to be fun so don’t miss it!!!!! Well off to work so till next time TTFN. Char www.valentelane.com

First I want to thank everyone for their purchases and compliments and loyalty, it has been a joy making you all happy. I did very well at the Fort Clark craft show thanks to many people, that was one I will participate in next year because it was so fun! Also I want everyone to know that my front page will be changing a little, I will be able to post specials, write comments from customers and spruce it up a bit instead of the same old thing all the time. I also will be phasing out the honey pot jar as I found a company who has a more elegant jar and 5 sizes instead of 3 so I will be able to offer a 32oz jar in the next 2 months. But what I want to let everyone know is Spring is right around the corner and for the month of April all floral scents will be 15% off, all you have to do is mention my blog and email me your order and I will bill you with the discount!!! So take time, smell the flowers and enjoy the fresh air and bring spring inside with some of the best floral scents on my site. Till next time TTFN Char www.valentelane.com

To achieve more traffic I am going to be researching and exploring the wonderful world of blogging. I have been told this tool is wonderful in meeting people, helping to get hits on websites and finding loads of information out there in the wonderful world of technology. So I have heard about this new site to start blogging at and one of the requirements is to link my blog to their blog. I will also write another on candles and try my best to do more than one a month. But for all you fanatics who love craft shows there is one this saturday at Fort Clark in Brackettville. I hear this is a huge show and is done every  year. This will be my first year doing this show. I am very excited, so hope to see some Del Rioans there. till my next blog ttfn and that for some of you with kids is from Winnie the Pooh and it stands for TaTa For Now!!!!:)

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Hi to all my customers and new customers. I have extremely exciting news to tell you! As you know I love my candles and love it when my customers say they love my candles. That is so rewarding to me, I cannot begin to describe the feeling it gives me to make people happy. But because of luck, coincidence or hard work and promoting and word of mouth, my candles are now for sale in Russel True Value Hardware. Sherry Davenport owner along with husband Clayton, contacted me about my candles and told me she had grown up on Valente Lane and was a large candle retailer in Del Rio and wanted to support her hometown, by supporting me and offered to sell my line of candles. You can only imagine how exciting that is for me. Now don’t think we talked about pricing and no she will not sell them for more than I do. They will be sold for what I sell them for and She is going to be carrying the Metro Jars 8oz and 12oz but because the jar is more expensive (Libbey Brand) I had to raise my price just a little. The 8oz jars will be $9.95 and the 12oz will be $14.95. They also will contain the palm wax I so love or better known as vegetable wax. So for those of you who always would like to sniff you can now go there and sniff and request candles if you cannot get a hold of me!!!! Plus there are many new scents to chose from and by the way they have an awesome gift section you would love and candle accessories. At the top I included a picture of the Palm Wax and pictures of the Metro Jars empty so you know what the style looks like. So go and take a peek, tell me what you think and hope you all had a great Valentines Day!!!!!!! Char www.valentelane.com

I have been making candles now for almost 2 years and have tested a fair amount of candle wax over this period. I perosonally have a favorite wax, which by the way is not very popular yet in the candle industry. This wax happens to be best known as vegetable or palm wax. Here is a small discription of the wax, it has a unique crystal-textured appearance, has great scent throw if you use the right brand of fragrance, burns absoutley clean and is all natural. It has taken me a while to achieve the scent throw that I want my candle to produce, but once I did, this has become a best seller for me! Paraffin wax is still the number one wax used and bought with soy close behind, and palm trudgeing along. Mark my words one day the look and burn of this wax will catch on and be number one someday. So if you would like to try something new and absolutley beautiful take a chance on this wax and I’m hoping it will become a favorite for you to! And if anyone orders from my website after reading this article you get 15% off of any vegetable wax candle you order for the month of February. visit www.valentelane.com

I do a lot a lot of web searching on candle sites, forums, news, blogs and whatever I can click on too for new information about scented candles of any kind. I love candles pure and simple. I love to create candles that people say they just love the look, smell and ambiance that my candles give them. Lets face it I love to make candle people happy with the purchase they made from me. But what I was getting at before I started off on a tangent, was this, while searching for info, ideas and good advice on products I came across a candle reveiw site and started reading, boy did I get a wonderful fill of info. What these girls give is an honest, unabiased scented candle reveiws of the sites, companies, stores, sales and anything related to scented candles. They have a reveiw board of members who join (for free and must abide by some simple rules) candles will get reveiwed by board members who have tried products and give honest reveiws, which really can help a company or business or consumer tremendously!!! The site is run by women, Christina (reveiw editor), Carolyn (editor in cheif) and Dawn (candle find reveiwer) who from what I have read are candle fanatics. They truly love candles, because they have taken the time to spread the news about scented candles to candle lovers everywhere they can reach. They have reveiwed many large company names, along with small businesses and on line sites. So if your looking for the info from candle lovers who all share a bond for that one reason just click on this address and you will fall in love!!!!! www.candlefind.com or visit my website www.valentelane.com

Christmas is a time for families, festivities, happiness, brotherhood, gift giving, big delicious meals don’t forget sleigh rides, childrens laughter, love and yes I could go on and on. What pulls you in? What grabs your memories? A picture? A song? Or Fragrance? That’s right you guessed fragrance. I can be shopping, working or just about anything and in an instant be brought back in time by the tiniest whiff of scent in the air and be catapulted to that special date that has stayed in my memory for so long. Fragrance may not be thought of or talked about very much, but it plays such an important part of our lives. Just think about it, sugar cookies, pies baking, hot coco, I think you get my meaning. What I am leading you on about is making candles a part of your memory, that’s right you can resurrect a memory anytime by burning a candle and in an instant that forgotten memory comes rushing back. The holidays are the best time to create those wonderful memories. There are so many wonderful holiday scents to choose from that it’s like Christmas all the time. So go out and browse the many candles that are available on the market and start creating fragrant memories and a good place to start is Valente Lane Candles!!!!! www.valentelane.com

Did you ever stop to think that much of our daily life is impacted by fragrance. Just take a minute to think how that statement is true. What do we do in the mornings, shower with scented soap, wash our hair with scented shampoo. We than proceed to use cologne or perfume, deordorant to smell good. Why? because this makes us feel good about ourselves and ready to face the day with a secure feeling of smelling good!  So the same driving force is behind the candle industry. What sells a candle? Fragrance is first and foremost, than cost, size and than the over all look. Notice how the fragrance introduced by some of the more predominent candle companies are not the traditional vanilla, cinnamon. They are more like Fig and Brown Sugar, Sage and Lemongrass, Sandalwood and Roses.  The fragrance industry is always evolving to peek the consumers senses. In a nut shell whether we are conscious of how much fragrance plays such an important part in our everyday lives, candle makers are well aware and are offering so many varities it can make it overwhelming.  So take your time when purchasing candles, make sure they will be worth the money you spend and remember there is a difference between grocery store bought candles and brand name candles, just like you know the difference between a Porsh and a Chevy Lumina. When you find the one that caught your attention, take it home light it and enjoy the feeling the fragrance gives you!!! visit my website for an abundance of fragrances to choose from for your candles. www.valentelane.com

Charlena

owner of Valente Lane Candles