Earth Friendly Candles with Green Aventurine Stones inside!

Here at Blue Moon Candleswe believe passionately in Candlelight.  We also believe in taking care of ourselves, as well as being responsible with our earth.

Most of us realize how important it is to lead a healthy lifestyle by watching the foods we eat and the products we use.  However, most people never think about what goes into the candles they are burning in their most sacred of spaces, their very homes.

We have collaborated on these candles with Luci Weston of Here We Are with Luci.  She is the editor-in-chief of "The Busy Woman's Guide to a Better, Brighter, Easier Lifestyle on our way to Running the World!" - If you are not already a reader, I highly suggest you give it a look-fantastic information to be found there!

Each of these Pillar candles are handcrafted crafted in All Natural Organic Soy Wax.  Container Candles are All Natural Apricot Wax, and feature drop in refills so they never need to be empty!  We use only 100% unbleached organic Cotton or Hemp Wicks.

There are 3  Essential Oil Blends to choose from~

Mint&Thyme:~ great for alertness & mental clarity, as well as stress relief.  Sweet Orange&Ginger~ energizing, warming and  comforting.  Bergamot & Grapefruit~ great for anxiety & stress relief, mentally uplifting.  As well as the option to remain fragrance free of course.  All of our essential oil Candle blends are Phthalate free.

Each candle has 3 small polished green Aventurine stones inside.

Once your candle is finished burning you can collect your stones.

 Did you know Aventurine's name was derived from an accident?  Sometime during the 18th century, Venetian glass workers were preparing molten glass when copper fragments accidentally fell into the glass producing a glass with sparkles.  The name Aventurine comes from the Italian "a ventura" which means "by chance".

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Folklore, Legend & Healing~ Aventurine has been used as a lucky talisman and is a popular stone for gamblers.  Legends say that it is an all-purpose healer, used to reduce stress, develop confidence, imagination and improve prosperity. A legend from ancient says that aventurine was used to improve nearsightedness and to increase the wearer's creativity.  Many believe that aventurine has the capacity to calm a troubled spirit and bring about inner peace.

It is funny how things work out sometimes.  Serendipity, a ventura, 3 Candles, 3 Fragrances, 3 stones, 3 word names-Blue Moon Candles & Here We Are...3 also carries the meaning of abundance & success; the triads of "sun, moon, stars" and "water, fire, wind".

Get your Eco Friendly Green Candles today!

A Wonderful Sight...

..:NAMESPACE PREFIX = W />December 12 — The Full Cold Moon
Sky watchers will be dazzled by an exceptionally high, bright, and large Moon. In fact, this Moon is 14% bigger and 30% brighter than other full Moons this year. Why? The Moon is both in its full phase and at a point in its orbit that is nearest Earth, called its perigee. When these events occur together, the Moon is closer to Earth than usual. The effect? The Full Cold Moon will appear especially large near the horizon as the Sun sets. 

The Moon is also high at this time of year; when it's overhead (near midnight), it will light up the landscape. Take a magical stroll and see your world at night. You won't need a flashlight!

The Mission Inn, Riverside California has always held a special spot in my heart!

As a young girl I was entranced with the idea of getting into the Spooky Catacombs below.  After several attempts so far I have been unsucessful, but someday I hope to get inside!  The catacombs have been closed to the public for several years, but next year Ghostwalk Riverside will be giving VIP tours.  If there is any way at all, I plan to be there!  

If you get the privlidge of actually going to this Inn, you will understand why it is so captivating.

Many famous interesting guests drawn to the inn included industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, actress Sarah Bernhardt, escape artist Harry Houdini, educator Booker T. Washington, blind and deaf writer and lecturer Helen Keller, aviatrix Amelia Earhart, auto tycoon Henry Ford and evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. The inn was also a favorite of the early Hollywood movie colony as well as World War II fliers at nearby March Field.

If you ever get the chance to go, it is a must see, especially during the holiday season.

Spooky Kisses!
Lisa

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 In The Remembrance of Things Past, French novelist Marcel Proust described what happened to him after drinking a spoonful of tea in which he had soaked a piece of madeleine, a type of cake: "No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through my whole body, and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me," he wrote. "An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses...with no suggestion of its origin...

"Suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was of a little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings...my Aunt Leonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea....Immediately the old gray house on the street, where her room was, rose up like a stage set...and the entire town, with its people and houses, gardens, church, and surroundings, taking shape and solidity, sprang into being from my cup of tea."

Just seeing the madeleine had not brought back these memories, Proust noted. He needed to taste and smell it. "When nothing else subsists from the past," he wrote, "after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls...bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory."

Proust referred to both taste and smell—and rightly so, because most of the flavor of food comes from its aroma, which wafts up the nostrils to cells in the nose and also reaches these cells through a passageway in the back of the mouth.

Our taste buds provide only four distinct sensations: sweet, salty, sour, and bitter. Other flavors come from smell, and when the nose is blocked by a cold, most foods seem bland or tasteless.

Both smell and taste require us to incorporate—to breathe in or swallow—chemical substances that actually attach themselves to receptors on our sensory cells.

The average human being, it is said, can recognize up to 10,000 separate odors. We are surrounded by odorant molecules that emanate from trees, flowers, earth, animals, food, industrial activity, bacterial decomposition, other humans. Yet when we want to describe these myriad odors, we often resort to crude analogies: something smells like a rose, like sweat, or like ammonia.

Our culture places such low value on olfaction that we have never developed a proper vocabulary for it. In A Natural History of the Senses, poet Diane Ackerman notes that it is almost impossible to explain how something smells to someone who hasn't smelled it. There are names for all the pastels in a hue, she writes—but none for the tones and tints of a smell.

Nor can odors be measured on the kind of linear scale that scientists use to measure the wavelength of light or the frequency of sounds.

Sources: Howard Hughes Medical Report

Coming Soon- The Memory of Smells….

Love, Laughter & Candlight!
~Lisa~
BlueMoonCandles.com

Spice for your Spirit…

Houses of worship have used Frankincense for centuries for it's heavenly aroma…it is not suprising to discover new research has proven the scent can indeed raise your spirits.  Scientists at John Hopkins University in Maryland and Hebrew University in Jerusalem found that incensole acetate, a compound found in frankincense resin, simulates production of a protien called TRPV3, which elevates your mood affecting areas of the brain that respond to anxiety and depression drugs.

"Burning the resin produces the strongest mood-elevating results, as the effects of inhaling the smoke are immediate," says Ruth Knill, PhD, a licensed acupunturist.

If incense isn't for you, light a frankinsence infused candle, add 10 drops of essential oil to a bath, or dab a few drops (diluted with a carrier oil-like sweet almond oil-onto your wrist.

Green is one of my favorite colors-I love lush greenery, and find inspiration in growing things.  I prefer the real thing.  Here we list five of the best House Plants that do exceptionally well at helping remove formaldehyde (found in synthetic fabrics, plastics, carpeting) which is listed by the EPA as a possible carcinogen.

Peace Lily-med. to bright light-water thoroughly, let dry out between watering.

Bamboo Palm-med to bright light-thrives in humid environment.

Janet Craig (Corn Plant)-bright light, no direct sun-let soil dry out between watering.

Mother-in-law's Tongue (Snake Plant)-Very durable, grows in all light-be careful not to overwater.