Trying to say thank you for a job well done or to that loyal customer via a thoughtful gift over the holidays?  Why not make someone happy and at the same time – make a difference. You don’t have to be in a big corporate office environment, maybe it is your baby sitter, handy man […]

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Here is an interesting South Africa fact – it has the only street in the world to house two Nobel Peace prize winners. The street? Vilakazi Street, which is located in Soweto, South Africa, just outside Johannesburg. The Nobel Peace prize winners? President Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu both lived on Vilakazi Street! In […]

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Not everyone celebrates Halloween with outrageous costumes, scary parties, and the shouts of ‘Trick and Treat’ echoing throughout the darken streets of the neighborhood.  Here’s what happens in some other parts of the world…. Despite the fact that the original traditions of Halloween began in part of the world that we know today as Ireland, […]

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October is the month to recognize your support for ‘making a difference’ throughout the world by improving working conditions, ensuring adequate levels of pay, and supporting those who depend on every purchase to care for themselves and their families. The World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) supports marginalized small producers, whether these are independent family businesses […]

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Halloween actually started over 2,000 years ago when the people known as the ‘Celts’ who lived in what is now Ireland, the UK, and parts of Northern France, celebrated  November 1 as their New Year’s Day. They believed that the night before, October 31, was a time when the living and the dead came together. […]

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TO BEGIN, make sure your ‘first burn’ is 1 hour for each 1 inch of the width of the candle.  So a 3” X 6” pillar (3” wide and 6” tall) should burn 3 hours the first time you light it.  This creates a ‘burn pool’ which will allow your wick to  burn the optimal […]

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