The nation is turning green this christmas by opting to buy environmentally friendly Christmas decorations. More and more companies are producing such decorations and according to the Times newspaper people are even routing back to more traditional decorations. This is great news for companies like ourselves as candles are probably one of the most traditional decorations you can buy.

Green news site Natural News even goes on to say that scented candles are beautiful whether lit or unlit and make wonderful accents to centrepieces, window sills, lanterns and other decorations. They also go onto say that scented candles can bring the festive smell to a home if carefully selected.

The great thing about candles is that they are also extremely cost effective decorations. You can also customise candles with ideas of your own. We think that wrapping green holly leaves around a candle arrangement looks great.

Send us your great christmas decoration ideas.

Candles To You and its new fragrance diffusers have been named in a prestigious christmas gifts guide this month. Heaven Spa, the award winning beauty salon specialists named the Mandarin & Lime Basil Luxury Diffusers in their seasonal list.

A short extract about from the list can be seen below:

The Mandarin & Lime Basil luxury diffusers are the real head turners and area a safe alternative to candles.

Of course we were delighted by the comments and by being included in such a list. We hope this will help us to grow our reputation and establish ourselves as a leader in the candle retail market place.

We are also a big fan of Heaven Spa and have been following them for some time. We have recently visited one of their Spa’s and given the chance to try some of their products. The Pevonia Skin care range was one that caught our attention in particular and we wanted to tell you about some of their great products. We and several others got the chance to try out the following products.

• Pevonia Dry Skin Cleanser
• Pevonia Dry Skin Lotion
• Pevonia Rejuvenating Dry Skin Cream
• Pevonia Rejuvenating Dry Skin Mask
• Pevonia Aromatherapy Face Oil Dry
• Pevonia Vitaminic Concentrate

Well worth a visit. It’s a good day out!

This month we have finally launched our special offers page giving you guys the chance to grab yourself some bargains. To launch the feature we have put on four special offers which see the prices of candle tins and gift sets slashed. We hope you enjoy them and of course there will be many offers to come. You can find the offers on the home page or specials page.

• English Country Garden Candle Tin – £4.49
• A Thousand Rose Petals Candle Tin – £4.49
• Leaf & Flower Gift Set – £4.49
• Butterfly Candle Gift Set – £4.49

We have recently obtained some new products from our supplier and we will be introducing you guys to them here on our blog. Today we have some excellent new luxury fragranced diffusers to show you guys. As some of you maybe aware we have been selling diffusers for some time now but these new luxury diffusers take the product range to a whole new level. These are going to be the must have products of 2009 we reckon.

This range is in fact so new that there are only two fragrances in the range however we do expect to see more coming out in the coming months. Firstly we have Mandarin & Lime Basil Luxury Diffusers and secondly Moroccan Fig & Cassis Luxury Diffusers. Both of these retail at £12.99 and we are in fact retailing them at much lower than our competitors. This is simply because we want to see how popular they will be and give you guys the chance to play around with them.

The diffusers have a burn time of around 150 hours so you certainly get your moneys worth and they make a real talking point in any room. The great thing about diffusers is that they don’t make use of a live flame so are much safer than a conventional candle. We hope you like the new range and we can’t wait to hear your feedback.

Sorry for the lack of updates guys! We have been really busy sourcing new products for the store but we are delighted to announce that we have two new designer candles in store. When we say designer, we mean designer as these candles have been designed and manufactured by one of the worlds biggest beauty companies. These candles are also used by one of worlds top celebrities. Ok, so a little about the candles themselves.

First we have the Malin + Goetz Cannabis Candle which is a dark green which blends of orange, lemon, figs, pepper, sandlewood, patchouli and green neroli. Then we have the Malin+Goetz Neroli Candle. This bright orange candle is a real eye opener and blends citrus, melon, orange and iris scents.

Both candles burn for up to 60 hours and are cased in a stylish glass jar. These are candles for the true candle lovers out there and we sure you will be as amazed by them as we are. They have become very much a talking point in our store.

A local artist recently asked us if we could provide him with a candle arrangement for a live concert he was putting on in the city of Manchester. This made us think more about the role of candles and how they have heavily featured in music over the years. For me one of the most memorable uses would be in one of Kurt Cobain’s last concert. He performed an unplugged show with a set that resembled a funeral. Quite chilling really.

Other artists have even featured candles heavily in their lyrics. The Crest’s of course had a famous song called sixteen candles. If you take a look at some of the lyrics from sixteen candles you will see how heavily candles feature.

Sixteen candles make a lovely light
But not as bright as your eyes tonight
(as your eyes tonight) (Oh)
Blow out the candles, make your wish come true
For I’ll be wishing that you love me, too
(that you love me, too)

We will hopefully have some pictures soon of the arrangement and will of course keep you updated. If you want to reminisce about the sixteen candles lyrics or know of any music concerts where candles have featured heavily then drop us a line.