Starla's Candle Making Best Picks

My pick of the best places on the web to go to for candle, crafts, instructions and some fine "mom and pop" wholesale shops. In no way do I receive any money for the links, nor am I advertising for others. It is strictly what I like.

Friday, August 19, 2005

Business sucks, so I started a new site called Twisted Candies
Not sure if it will help, sort of fluffy and sweet. About the history of candies.
Hopefully as time goes by, we can sell a few candies, the old fashion kind.

Thursday, August 04, 2005

Blog blog blog
You must add to your blog every day or google looses interest. And so does everyone else. Well, I can't sit and blog till my eyes pop out or can I. Time will tell. I will look for more cool links or anything else that strikes my interest today. Good luck to all of you too!

Looking for candle links.
Presently we are looking for candle related links.If you have one, today we are placing the links on this page Candle and craft links or add a site I started a new link page today, that is why it doesn't have pr yet.Here is my information Candle Supplies We make scented faux food handmade bakery, creates logs, cakes, cookie tarts, made from our paraffin wax (blended right here in Ohio), scents, and instructions. All candles, scents, wicks, waxes are made in the U.S.A by Americans.Thank you,StarlaPlease let us know where our link is located on your site.We take our links seriously. I will have to take your link down if I can't find our link on your page in a week.I hope you understand.
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Starving!
Working on links and started thinking about food...............Here is what I found...........Should be working instead of playing!Ma's Cajun Meat Pies Crawfish Pies and Breakfast Pies homemade ...Ma's Cajun Meat Pies homemade meat and crawfish pies made fresh and frozen for mail delivery. 1814 Highway 119, Natchez, LA 71456 318-352-3979 or 318-332-0276. ...Now I want one!

Never informative.
Ping Weblogs.comYes NoWeblogs.com is a blog update notification service that many individuals and services use to track blog changes.I apparently have pingged my blog. I am told so Feedster can pick it up..........ok, from a person who is not so very smart, I think I have done a good thing. I hate building a web site or blog by the seat of my pants, but there is only so much time in life to do anything. Always in a hurry. And discovered with overtures new tool for key words that I should have been working on candle making supplies instead of candle supplies all this time. Back to the drawing board. Sigh........

Blogs are big?
Could blogs be the next big wave in having your web site become top dog over your competors. (to self - Better use spell checker this time) If I put in enough links to my site will I take over the top slot and beat out discount candles. Discount candles......at last count I found 45 sites that belong to discount candles. That is the way they get to the top, so many sites, that they link back to discount candles. I think that candlewic is beginning to do the same thing. I don't want to work on that many sites at once. I don't even think I could come up with that many words for different sites. It would all end up sounding the same, maybe even duplicate content and get me knocked out of google permanetly. Bitter creek is another candle site that has many of it's own sites linking to the home based site. Wouldn't it be funny if this one company, with one worker, creamed them all! Candle making supplies with supplies for making all kinds of pretty primitive candles from Blue Moon . You go Blue Moon!

Key word mining.
What an interesting word. Key word mining. Yes, key words are gold. Searching for them would be mining of a sort. (to self - you forgot the spell checker again in last post)These people here are geniuses - http://www.seroundtable.com/Not me, just a gal from Ohio trying to make a little living. And on a second look - they want to charge you for everything. Wish I could too.

Create a New Post
Blogs are suppose to be filled with keywords. Key words of what? Words that are key to someone finding your web site.I am not a web site copy writer. It is difficult for someone who does not write for a living to come up with many different words for one subject.Do I much care? No, I really don't. I just want my key words in there in an appropriate density. Enough for google to gobble me to the top.Most new web site builders are so focused on how pretty their site looks, they haven't had one thought in their heads about how the web surfer will find them.All I really wanted when searching the web for a site to shop in is a site that looks and feels like me. Something I can relate to, someone I feel I can trust......is this a female way of looking at things? I think so. Girls go on feelings when they are about to make a purchase. How do they feel about it.I have had many women call to order and say how they loved the site. It was easy to read and understand. They loved the instructions.It showed me that women love to shop where they feel comfortable.So I built a site that reflected me.I don't know if that is a good reflection or one that shows my ignorance.
It no doubt shows my small amount of college education. If you could call it an education at all.
Not that I care. My only point to this blog at all is to see if it boost my web site rankings.
Now at this point I should insert someone elses information to make google think that this blog is not a self serving blog.
Candle Making Supplies At Jones Bee CompanyCandle Making Supplies. Jones Bee Company carries everything you need to create your own candles. Whether you are creating rolled ... www.jonesbee.com/plastic.html
See it really isn't all about me...is it Amee?

Monday, Monday
Monday, back to work. Millions of American's stumble diligently back to work on Monday mornings at the crack of dawn. Sad, but true.Let's see if another interested site can be found today for our blog.

Store Closing for Holiday
Blue Moon Candles will be closed on Firday the 13th and Saturday the 14th in order for all employees to be able to attend the Ross County Fair! We will see you there at the craft section!Thank you!

Candle making instructions.
The best place for candle making instructions for advanced and beginner candle makers is here at Blue Moon Candles. They have instructions for making snowmen, bunt cakes, primitive and homespun candles.You will love what they do with wax.

All you have to do is be nice!
This is what I heard from my mother since I can remember. I still hear her words echoing in my brains inner ear - "All you have to do is be nice."These days I am wondering.Shipping a package to Delaware, I did the woman a favor by adding free samples in the package. I didn't have to do this. I just wanted to be nice.Her package was shipped by an independent shipping agent through U.P.S. This package was lost, at some point, by U.P.S.This customer waits for 6 weeks to complain or inquire about her shipment. Then before any investigation on our part can be done, she starts threatening lawsuits and having charges filed on us for internet fraud.Remember, we have been in the mail order business for over 4 years now and in business for a total of 6 years and have never had this irate a customer before. If we have previously made a mistake, we have made it right by double the original purchase. Once again I say, if the fault was ours, we have corrected it double.But in this case, U.P.S. was at fault. Not ours. We did ship in a timely manner and have irrefutable proof from a third party.We made several calls to her to try and sort this out.First call was to tell her we had called shipping, but it was going to take a few minutes for the gentleman to find the shipping receit. She was loudly stating that no matter what U.P.S. did, this was our problem.So, we called again to ask her what she ordered. She states 100 lbs of this and 4 lbs of that, ect - for such and such amount.We called her again when we completed the investigation to explain the U.P.S. loss, give tracking #'s which could have been varified through the internet, ect. Since her first irate call, I was racking my heart and brain to prove to this lady that we were not thieves.Our shipping company called her to explain the U.P.S. loss.The last call I made after the shippin company had called her - she stated that she could not be certain that we were not thieves.My co worker then noticed that the original U.P.S. shipping paper was for a total of 54 lbs. Thus proving that we did not originally send her 100 lbs of this or that.We promptly sent her original money back to her and 2.00 extra for her original phone call. We know that had to cost something. (Still trying to be nice, mom, with the extra money sent.)Does anyone blame us for sending her money back to her?How do we know that when the products arrived, she would be satisified!This customer makes you afraid to ship to strangers, but then mom always said not to talk to strangers.......................

A little site that I like is Vintage Chicks Retro Clothing and Collectibles from the 50's, 60's, and 70'sI just had to get this to google this month. Very hard time getting listed in dmoz.

Now here is a site that I totally love, called Hey Viv! It has vintage clothing for size 12 and above girls.
Hey Viv ! Vintage Clothing "Hey Viv! sells poodle skirts, crinolines & accessories for a Fun 50's Look. Hey Viv! Specializes in large size vintage clothing from the 40's & 50's Wearable Plus Size and 50's Vintage Clothing With Hey Viv ! Fun 50's - Fashion Facts and Tips

I just love this vintage site!

How long has it been candle kisses? I have missed the smelly bears, the warm glow from a flickering flame. Come heather bright one and let the light shine.