Tender Flamers!! Obviously its been a while since I’ve updated. I have not given up! A lot has happened these last few months. Of course shortly after my last post in March, everything started to go wrong but I remained calm and persevered! Come to find out, its a lot harder to start your own business while working two jobs and being a single mom, while still having somewhat of a life haha. No matter, I will soon be launching! You can check out my Facebook at Tender Flame Soy Candles. I’ve updated the page periodically throughout this process. Here’s just a little update on whats been happening…
Back in late March and early April my mom was working on my logo and labels. I’ve been pretty dead set on exactly what I want but it was a bit difficult getting it exactly right in Illistrator so we toyed with it for a while. By May, it still wasn’t done. I can’t sell my product without a label. So I took that time to continue testing. By mid May, my mom fell down the stairs and dislocated her wrist so she wasn’t able to finish my logo. Now my brother is working on getting it done. Should be done in just a few short weeks. Shortly after my mom fell down the stairs, my laptop decided to stop working! It needed a battery replacement, so I finally replaced the battery just to find out the next day that my harddrive was fried! Ugh. One thing after another. All of my costing spreadsheets, inventory list, price lists were all on my laptop. Well a friend assisted with getting my laptop working just long enough to get my business stuff transferred to an external harddrive! Thank goodness too cause I spent a lot of time creating all of those. I was so relieved. Then I had to get a different laptop which I did. So finally I was back in business for all of that, and continued testing when I had time. I now have solid candle recipes ready to sell (that burn beautifully and smell amazing!!), I have over 25 fragrances to choose from and I cant wait to get on the ball. Im still working my second job until the end of this month so time is limited until then. Which is good causw on my free time, I’ve been continuing the glass cutting and sanding to use the old beer and wine bottles as containers. Slowly I’m getting there. Moving forward I’ll do my best to keep updated throughout the process and get my price list on here. I look forward to this journey. And thank you to all of my supporters who continue to keep me positive! Stay tuned Tender Flamers!
Below are some pictures from the last couple months.
Love Spell curing for 24 hours:
6oz candle recipe complete:
Glass sanding station:
Soaking bottles in preparation of cutting:
Sneak peak of my logo Tender Flame!
