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Upcoming Craft
Show Schedule
April 27th Friday
Skagit Valley Hospital
7AM - 6PM in San Jan Conference room near cafeteria
ALL welcome!
Locally I have candles in a store in Sedro Woolley
called Somwhere in Thyme, on Metcalf St, next to Courier Times
Note about web orders:
If you place an order and your shopping cart comes
up with a cost of over $8.10 to ship, please email me before you place
the order. Most likely, I can fit it into a flat rate priority
mail box and save you some money on that shipping.
Skagit County residents, please email me your
orders and we'll arrange free delivery and payment upon time of
delivery.
Free 8 oz candle for Jan.
March's free winner was Lori Larsen
Consider hosting an online candle party or
book party to earn some free
candles
for yourself! If
you'd like more details on how this works, please email me at:
valerie.garner@joyfuldesignsinsoy.com
Western Wash. residents:
I can do fundraisers for groups. Email me for details if
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Scent of the
Month Sale
Lilac Lily- Soft earthy scent in pale
lilac color. Fresh blend of lilacs & white lilies for a beautiful
spring floral scent.
Buy 1 candle at regular price, get a candle of
month scent in the equal size for 40% off! (Does not count on the sets
of candles as those are already discounted).
Please email me if you order the special so I
can tabulate the correct total for you.
Seasonal scent
suggestions:
Banana Cream Pie
Rain
Apple Blossom
Violet & Birch
Daffodil
Lilac
Citrus Basil
Grapefruit Lily & Lime
Blackberry Basil
Cucumber Aloe
Angel Wings
Planning a Kitchen Garden
A kitchen garden is a wonderful way to get fresh vegetables for your
family. The goal is to plant produce you can use, obviously enough, in
your kitchen.
This means you need to figure out what you would enjoy eating fresh
from your own garden. Tomatoes, beans and zucchini are classics for a
kitchen garden. Herbs make a nice touch and do more for your food than
the dried herbs you can buy at the store.
Tomatoes will need to be staked as they grow. You can buy tomato
cages at nurseries and home improvement stores or you can buy stakes and
use nylons to hold up your tomatoes. Otherwise the plants are prone to
falling over.
Zucchini grown at home is far superior to what you buy in the grocery
store. The one catch is that most people find themselves with more
zucchini than their family can eat. It seems to happen no matter what
you do. Just the nature of the plant. Fortunately you can often find
neighbors or coworkers willing to take the excess off your hands.
Some foods are not as easy to grow in a home garden. My mother grew
corn when we were growing up, but the problem was how much space it took
for the amount of corn you get. The neighbors didn't like the plants
there either.
Green beans or peas are fun to grow. You will need something for them
to climb. Many people grow them near the house and put up strings for
them to climb towards the roof. They also do well growing on a chain
link fence.
But before you start planting, take a piece of paper and plot out
what you want to grow. The plants will need room to grown, and that will
determine how many plants you can fit in your garden. This will also
help you make the best use of your garden space. Make sure you include
enough room to walk around different sections of your garden to care for
your garden and pick your produce.
Pest control is always a concern. Marigolds are attractive and help
discourage pests. Ladybugs can often be purchased at garden centers to
handle aphids. Other bugs require other treatments to discourage them.
A kitchen garden is a great family activity. Even young children love
planting seeds and seeing what comes up. It's an easy way to teach them
where food comes from and encourages them to eat their vegetables.
By Stephanie Foster blogs at
http://www.gardenmedley.com/gardening/category/mygarden/ about her
garden. If you would like more
tips on vegetable gardening, she suggests reading at her site.
Candle Tips
To extinguish your wick in a truly smoke free way, take a small piece of
wire (end of a coat hanger works well) and use it to push your
burning wick into the burn pool, thus drowning it. Then use that
wire to put the wick back in it's original position.
Be sure to trim your wick to ? or ?” before every
burn and keep the lit candle out of a draft to ensure a clean burn.
Toenail clippers work great to trim the wick as it burns down deeper
into the jar.
Burn your candle 1 hour for every inch of
diameter. For the 12 oz oval hexagon candles, burn a minimum of 3
hours, and the jelly jars and minimum of 2 hours for best results. This
helps to ensure a full melt pool.
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