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My name is Melissa Hall, and I am the
candlemaker in our family run
business, as well as handling our website and online marketing. My
husband ,Chris, helps market our candles out in the community along
with coming up with new ideas. Our boys aren't old enough to
help out
yet, but the
oldest always tells me that my candles that I made "look very nice
mommy" or he'll say "I really love the new candle that you made". He
says it with all sincerity too,, it's so cute. Our youngest just has to
smell them when he sees I've made some new ones.
I have always loved candles, and one day I decided I wanted to try
making my own candles. As I was searching online about homemade
candles, I found out more about soy candles and
their many wonderfull benefits, including being much easier to
clean-up! So I ordered a 5lb soy candle making kit off of ebay as a
birthday present to myself (-: and made my first
candles,
which turned out really well and I found that I really enjoyed making
them. So I decided that this might be a good business opportunity for
me, since it is always best to work at something you really enjoy.
I am an artist by nature anyway (see my other site http://www.higherfocusart.com),
and have always enjoyed drawing and painting ever since I can remember.
Candlemaking is another form of art, and I love trying to come up with
different scents and color combinations. I enjoy cooking too and
candlemaking is alot like cooking a recipe or coming up with
your
own recipes. It is very exciting finding new and different
kinds
of candle containers at various places. Whenever I'm at a second hand
store or garage sale I have my eyes peeled looking for any interesting
glasses or glass containers that I could use for a beautifull homemade
candle.
Well, to go on with my story, I am a stay at home mom and had been
looking for something that I could do from home to supplement our
income. I have always wanted to have my own business, and I first
started a few years ago selling my paintings on ebay. (Actually, I
guess you could say I started back when I was in junior high, giving
horseback riding lessons, which I did for about 7 years, and also doing
some horse training).
I haven't sold enough to make a good part time
income, but with two young boys and another on the way it can be tough trying to sit down and
paint for any length of time unless it is late at night. So, although I
will continue to paint when I can and sell my paintings, making
homemade candles has proven to be something that I can do with the kids
underfoot fairly easily and it is something I really enjoy, and can use
my artistic talent not only in making the candles, but also doing some
etching of artwork on the glass containers, which I look forward to
trying very soon!
Another enjoyment of mine as far as my business goes, is working on my
websites. I have always loved computers(sometimes it's more of a
love/hate relationship), and have always been one to dig for
information untill it feels like my little brain might
explode!
I have built 3 websites so far from scratch, this one being
my
3rd, and I must say the easiest one to put together so far, so I think
I'm getting the hang of website building. Again, it is another form of
art! What can I say, I love being artistic! In case you're
interested in taking a look at my other sites, here they are:
Original
Paintings-A Higher Focus Art
Horse
Sales-ClassAds Equine
To sum things up here, our hope is to be able to grow a profitable,
honest, trustworthy business, and provide beautifull homemade candle
creations to our customers.
Melissa Hall
Homemade
Candle Creations
P.S. If you'd like to see my reputation as a seller, you can
view my feedback rating on eBay
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