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This has got to be one of the best contests I have ever seen! I am definately in! Read below to see all the prizes and the winner will be chosen randomly. I hope I win!

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HOW TO WIN:
1. Blog about this contest and link back to Random Thoughts (Required). It is REQUIRED to include the prizes and sponsors' links in your post for your entry to be valid. Go to her site to see other ways to win.


RULES:
1. Winners will be selected randomly using Random.org. If you want all your entries to be counted, please leave separate comment for each (REQUIRED).
2. Contest will run from January 25 to February 10, 2009.
3. Contest will end on February 10th at 11:59pm EST.
4. Winners will be announced on February 13th, the anniversary date.
5. Winners has 48 hours to contact me at mira[underscore]burns[at]yahoo[dot]com with subject ANNIVERSARY GIVE-AWAY WINNER, otherwise another winner will be selected.
6. This contest is open to all bloggers with PayPal account and Entrecard account.
7. All SPONSORS are also welcome to join!

GOODLUCK EVERYONE AND PLEASE PASS THE GOOD NEWS!

Here is my wish for everyone !



I hope you all have a Happy and Healthy New Year in 2009 ~

Take care,
Kat xoxo

I received this award from Candles, Crafts and Whatnot, and I wanted to let everyone know that it means so much to me! My poor little Candle blog here, doesn't get many awards, so I'll take them whenever I can!!
I just might have to go over there and pilfer some more awards, hee hee!

Anyway, this blog needed some love too! I know this blog is neglected from time to time, but still.....I felt lonely over here without awards. Kinda like the black sheep of the blogging world!

So, now I am exuberant and extremely happy that I was awarded an award too!
Thank you all for your support!
Kat

As I mentioned on my other blog Candles, Crafts and Whatnot, My big craft show, that I have been telling you all about, is here today and tomorrow. I went Friday night to partially set up for the show, and today was the first day of the show.

There were alot of lookers, but not alot of buyers out and about! I hope tomorrow turns out to be a better day for me and some of the other sellers! I did sell some candles and some jewelry, but there are so many jewelry sellers there this year, that it is near impossible to sell any! Almost every other table is selling jewelry, whereas last year there were maybe 10 of us selling jewelry. Now it is more than half of the sellers! That really stinks. People must be so sick of looking at jewelry by the time they get to my table!

Luckily, I have my soy wax candles, open
and on numerous tables, to draw them
into my booth, andthen they can smell them, and look at the jewelry too! But it doesn't seem like a very good year for
selling right now?

Anyway, I will let you all know how tomorrow goes.....wish me luck!!!

Kat

I would like to invite everyone to come on over and read the latest issue of "Angels Magazine".

It is a magazine written by women, for women, and has some really good articles in it, along with poetry and photos. I'm sure there is something there for everyone!

I contribute to this magazine along with trying to keep up with my posts on this blog and my other blog, Candles, Crafts and Whatnot, and running my business, Kat's Candles. To say the least, I have been pretty busy lately!!

The ladies would all like to hear your comments about their writing and their articles, as they have all worked so very hard on this magazine. Please bookmark this site, or subscribe to the rss feed, and come back often!!

We look forward to hearing from you!! Take care!!

Kat

Isn't it funny that when making candles, you never know what to expect?

In my business: Kats Candles, I have found that peoples tastes vary from one season to the next, and even from one year to the next. One spring my customers will be crazy over Gardenia scented candles and the next spring it will sit and collect dust. I never know what is going to be popular?

I have mentioned before that I do craft shows, and I can't possibly take with me all 100 scents that I offer, or for that matter, all the products that I have. I usually bring a lot of candles, of all shapes and sizes, but maybe only 1 of each of the off season scents. I should mention that the spaces offered at these craft shows are not exactly huge!! So space is limited, and therefore, so is what I can offer!

Inevitably, someone always wants the scents that I didn't bring, for example, if I'm doing a Christmas show, I usually bring my Christmas/fall scents, and a smattering of the other ones. But someone always wants the "honeysuckle" candle, or the "baby powder"! Now, I try and take what I think will sell, and if the following year I take the "honeysuckle" and the "baby powder" they will just sit there taking up space on my table, and I will have people asking all day for the "blueberry muffin"!!! I can't win! Maybe if I was psychic, I would have better luck predicting what the customers would want.

I am still stocking up for the "big show" in November that I mentioned in a prior post. You can read it here, and I am scratching my head trying to decide what scented candles to make, and what to leave out. I just hope I make the right decisions this year! Wish me luck, and if you have any insight....please let me know!!! :)

A BIG Thank you to Kay's K9s for giving me this award! It is my very first one, and I am soooo excited~! I'd like to thank the academy.....oh wait, that's not right! LOL!

I wrote a nice write-up on Kay's K9s site over on my other blog, Candles, Crafts and Whatnot, and I still visit her regularly. She is amazing with not only the art that she creates, but the work that she does for our animal friends. She sponsors animals that need to find homes and donates profits from her sales to good causes too! She is the best!

Anyway, back to my award.......The Rules for the Award are as follows:
1. Mention the blog that gave you the award & comment on their blog when you post the award.
2. List 6 things you VALUE & 6 things you DON'T VALUE.
3. Then, pass the award onto 6 other blog buddies!

Six Things I Value:

1. Family and friends ~ I wouldn't be who/where I am now without them. :)
2. Alone Time ~ I really enjoy the time I spend by myself, I am a strong person, and don't at all mind my own company!
3. My Creativity ~ It gives me such happiness to create.
4. Being in Control of my Life ~ To a certain degree I can control what I do, and when I do it, and I like that feeling.
5. My Values ~ Mom brought me up right, and I find that today, some people don't have values, and I feel sad for them. :(
6. My Job ~ In today's economy, I am lucky to have a job that supports me.

Six Things I Don't Value:

1. Rude People ~ I don't understand the actions of people sometimes?
2. Money ~ I value what I need, not much more...I am not extravagant by any means. I always say, I just need enough to live off of, not millions.
3. Fancy Clothes ~ I am not big on dressing up, give me jeans and a sweatshirt and I'm pretty happy!
4. Dressing Rooms ~ Uggghhh, not a fan, don't use them.
5. Cell Phones ~ I use mine pretty much for emergencies only.
6. Shoes ~ If I could do without them, I would. I am not a "sterotype" female who owns 100 pairs of shoes. I like naked toes!!! Lol.

So there are my things...now I need to pass this along to 6 other blogs.

I choose:

1. Lapidary Queen Wannabees
2. Dashery Jewelry
3. ShinyAdornments
4. Michon Jewelry Blog
5. Karooart
6. Aerten Art

Congratulations to the above sites for inspiring me so much, that I want you to have this award! Please keep creating beautiful things, and I will keep coming back! :)

Entrecard seems to have fixed whatever it was that was ailing it, and now I am able to drop cards again. I wanted to thank everyone who regularly dropped their cards on me, even though I couldn't drop back for about a week.

I was really getting frustrated with Entrecard, because Whenever I tried to load a page, it would take forever to load or give me an error message telling me that the site was unavailable. Besides that, if I did get a page to load, and tried to drop my card, sometimes it would go through after about 5 minutes or it would say "invalid". It was really, really aggrivating!

But it seems to be working a lot better now. The pages are loading quicker, and I was able to drop some cards tonight......definately no where near 300, but some.

Again, thanks to all of you who continued to drop on me in my downtime! I really appreciate it!