Sunday, July 28, 2019

Scentsy Bars vs. Jar candles


What is Scentsy?  Why is it a better alternative for making your home smell good!


1. Wax melts are safer than scented candles
A lot of scented candles available have harmful chemicals in them.  Elements such as lead, phthalates, and formaldehyde.  Those things are released into your air and left on your walls along with the black soot from the burning wick.
Scented candles can be toxic, Scentsy bars are not.
Scentsy warmers only warm the scent out of the wax, the wax remains in the warmer, thus there is no danger of chemicals being released into the home. Bars are made up of food-grade wax and fragrant oil.  The wax is just the carrier for the scent. The Bar melts and the scented oil releases fragrance into the air.
And let's not forget about the fact that with a candle you have an open flame going in your home. Probably resting either on a flammable surface or right next to one.  A candle flame is around 1000 degrees in temperature!  A Scentsy warmer melts wax to around 120 degrees.

2. Wax melts last longer than scented candles per ounce
That small Scentsy Bar is going to provide more fragrance time than a candle per ounce. A 16 ounce jar, which really only has 12 ounces of wax inside, could be expected to burn anywhere up to 84 hours. While a 3.2 ounce Scentsy Bar can produce amazing scent for up to 60 hours. Let's do a little math here, shall we?
Scentsy Bar: 60 hours / 3.2 oz = 18.75 hours fragrant time per ounce and a cost of $0.10 / hour
Jar Candle: 84 hours / 12 oz = 7 hours fragrant time per ounce and a cost of $0.30 / hour
You can reuse your Scentsy Bar wax melts. Yep, as long as your still smell fragrance you can pour your wax back into the Bar container. It will harden and be ready for use again when you are.  A candle is just one scent. You are stuck with that one scent until the candle is finished.
3. Wax melts offer more control over the scent than candles
Not everyone’s nose loves a whole lotta smell.  You can control the amount of scent released by using Scentsy over a jar candle.  With wax melts you can control the scent load in your space.  With a Scentsy bar you can pop in one cube and have a strong fragrance or you can cut it in half to reduce the intensity. You decide how much scent you want in the air of your home. With a jar candle, you get what you get. There's no dialing the strength up of down.
Maybe you haven't found your perfect, signature scent because it doesn't exist...yet. With wax melts you can combine fragrances to make your custom flavor. Mix up a couple scents and voila, you just mixed scents to your preference. There are a lot of Scentsy recipes to make completely new scents. Can’t do that with a jar candle now can you?
Are wax melts stronger than scented candles?
Scentsy bars are made of a proprietary, food-grade, wax that is very soft.  This soft wax blend was chosen for it's superior scent loading capabilities. A lot of fragrance oil is fitted into that little Scentsy Bar.  A jar candle is made of a much denser and harder wax blend.  Candle wax is only able to hold so much oil before the oil starts to seep out and pool; which can create a serious safety issue as the entire candle -not just the wick- becomes flammable.
4. Wax melts are cheaper than scented candles
Would you rather have a highly-fragrant Scentsy Bar for $6 or a good quality jar candle for $25?  We did a little math up above and found that, ounce per ounce, Scentsy wax is 66% less expensive and of a higher quality.  $0.10 per hour with Scentsy vs. $0.30 per hour with a jar candle.
Scentsy Bars and Warmers are safe, less expensive, have a high scent load, reusable, non-toxic, and customizable. You can leave your warmer going 24 hours / 7 days per week if you would like with absolutely no issues. It's UL - listed as a lamp, after all. Unless you want to risk burning your house down, you can’t you leave your candle burning all the 24/7.
Bonus benefit of using wax melts: Wax melts are environmentally friendly!
Scentsy Bars arrive to you in a compact, recyclable plastic "clam-shell."  These containers are thick enough to protect you wax melts, but thin enough to keep the plastic used to a minimum.  The wax slides cleanly out of the container with nothing left behind. Those clam shells can be tossed in the recycle bin, just like your disposable water bottle.
If you want to recycle that glass jar candle once you’re done, you’ll have to get all of the remaining unburned wax out first.  Using a knife to break up the hard wax.  Imagine going through the small opening & trying to chip away the hard wax. Good luck and don’t break the glass or you may cut yourself.   
Scentsy warmers are the best made warmers on the market. They come to you with a Lifetime Warranty against mechanical defect. When you take proper care of your warmer, you will have a warmer for life. Or until you see the next must-have warmer available.
Holly Dudley
Independent Scentsy Consultant

Saturday, April 13, 2019

I don't wanna be fat...

Yep, I said it!  
I DON'T WANT TO BE FAT.

I've gone up and down with my weight since I had my baby at 32 and I know I don't feel good in my skin when I've got this extra fat.  I don't feel attractive, or sexy and I don't want it.  
I hear my mom talking about not wanting that middle age woman belly & girlllll...I am right there with you!  And if you don't get it under control, it will take over!
Not having it.  I'm 46 but I don't have to be frumpy and fat.

I was doing great at 40 in & the best shape I'd been in and then I met Dave.  Slowly the pounds started creeping on. I got back to weight watchers, lost 17 pounds & was feeling great again!  Then fell off the wagon for most of 2018 & got back up a bit.  But I'm back at it as of January 1st & almost back to the full 17 pounds that I was down once again!  Feels so good to know I can do it & I don't have to be the frumpy middle aged mom.

It creeps on if you're not watching...OK, so driving through for fast food on lunch breaks really isn't creeping back on or you're not watching, but maybe it's more of a I didn't really care and let it happen.  HA!

July 2017 vs Oct 2017


December 2018 vs April 2019

Saturday, April 6, 2019

Life is messy

I've been praying hard for the past year and 4 months.  I've been praying for softening of hearts, for others to support the rebuilding of these relationships and encouraging forgiveness.
I reached out to my bonus daughter whom I had not seen since Halloween 2017 and things are going well.  I love this girl and have missed my relationship with her so much.  When I met my now husband in May 2013, I got to have these new relationships that I'd never had before.  I had 2 adult children that I became close too in addition to having a high school boy and a tween girl with my own 7 year old son.  It was so fun and those relationships built to when we got married in Oct 2014.  Ups and downs, as life is...a little more chaotic here though than I'd ever seen before.  
My husband comes from a very broken childhood.  Abusive, often left alone, felt very pushed to the side from the time his little brother was born as he was favored and it was made very obvious.  These are wounds that I really don't think will ever go away.  I see his attitude hardened from the way his mother treated him and sometimes that is projected onto how he talks about his children.  
Our duty as parents is to love without conditions.  Even when we are not so happy with decisions that are being made, we are to love our children and to make sure they know they are loved.  
I love these 4 kids and miss the two who have been gone for so long and the one who's relationship was so strained by this as well.  Young and impressionable, she should never have been made to feel like she too needed to abandon her relationship with her father.  We have to help nuture the relationship with our children and our divorced spouse.  Encourage that relationship.  It's a struggle sometimes, I won't lie!  I don't always see my ex husband/son's father being the Dad I want him to be for our son, but that's not for me to decide.  I just have to help my son know his Dad loves him & make sure to encourage him to have fun in the time when he is at his other home with his Dad and their family.  




Thursday, March 14, 2019

Living our best life

It's been almost a year since I've been on here...Much has happened for our family.  We are living our best life!  Living each day to the fullest and living in happiness.

2019 has been great to us so far and I know that God has big plans for us.  We're seeing things unfolding and waiting in prayer and faithful of what is ahead. Things on the horizon are life changing for Dave and I.  And our boys...the children who choose to be a part of this family.  You have the family that you're born into, the family that you create & that for Dave are his 4 kids - Bryan, Tiffany, Zach and Paige and for me it's Tanner.  Now we being married are a family with only 2 of those 5 children actually being present in our everyday lives.  We have come to peace with that and love the other three from a distance.  The choices we make in our lives are not always our own but we have to learn to accept them and go on.

So though we have 4 grandchildren, we only see 1, Jacelyn Rose, and we have another one on the way and do not know that we will ever meet that little girl.  If Dave's kids had their way, we would not be seeing any of them.  We have been lucky enough to have a relationship with his son's baby mama so we get to see one of the granddaughters on occasion.  It is what it is and we continue to pray for all of the kids and the grandbabies as well as a healthy pregnancy and easy delivery for Tiff and her new baby.

I'm lucky in that my son is just 13 and I still have time to influence him, he has these amazing Grandma's that are very present in his life and I pray that I am raising him up right.  I am far from perfect, but I hope he see's what it is to be a mother and a wife, to keep house and that he finds a partner that keeps a clean house, sees what a marriage is about from his step dad and I and learns about friendships and how to nurture those.  I pray that he gets the "big picture" of what life is.

Dave and I sold the old home and bought a home that is now truly just OUR FAMILIES home.  No ghosts of the old family or ex wife walking the halls in this home.  He always said that me coming in and what we did to the home on Cedar Ct made it a home - it was always just a house before.  No real care and love being put into anything.  We did so much work to the exterior and the interior.  It's amazing to look back at the pictures from when I moved into the house with him in 2013 to what it looked like when we left in 2018.

Now we have a home that is truly just ours, Tanner loves our new home as much as Dave and I!  It's gorgeous and we are now fixing things up as he had to do in the old house.  It's crazy how things break and aren't taken care of as they should be.  We as people are all so different.  Not bad, just different.  We have a new blank canvas to work with.

Living this life and God has given me and loving it!  This picture prompted me to hop back onto my blog....