Good Karma Candles

It’s a very long overdue “hello” from me 👋

It’s been 5 months since I last posted on this page 🙈 I’ve been splitting my time (and lots of my headspace) between Buckinghamshire and North Devon while my sister and I tried to support our Nan through both a terminal cancer and then a dementia diagnosis. A double whammy for her. I’m not sure why life can be so cruel at times. 2021 clearly didn’t get the memo about being kinder to her than 2020! 2022 it’s all on you now, sort it out!

My Nan is an incredibly strong and independent woman and understandably she struggled to accept she needed help. So she continued to try and live on her own, and, after what felt like forever for my sister and I battling to get some support for her - she had an inevitable fall at home. Her accounts of this fall vary from one day to the next, I guess that’s the beast that is dementia. We’ll never really know what happened. But then neither will she … which can only be a blessing ❤️

That was the eventual tipping point and everyone else saw how bad things had become. The right people noticed, and suddenly it was no longer just “two overly concerned granddaughters” that realised things needed to change. The proverbial had eventually hit the fan at lightning speed …

So fast forward a few weeks post fall, and she’s now in a lovely Care Home, not far from where she lived in North Devon. I am still going down once a month to spend the weekend with her but I can’t deny that the daily worry of trying to protect her had infiltrated quite a few areas of my life here 😬

We all still want to scoop her up and run away with her but we all know that she’s in the right place with eyes on her 24/7. No matter how much we wanted to that’s not something we could do 😢

So what’s the point in this slight over share?!

Well firstly I wanted to explain my radio silence … and secondly I’m on a bit of a mission now to openly talk about the reality behind dementia ❤️

I’ve finally sorted out the next product on my to-do list, Reed Diffusers. And when these go up onto the website I’ll be donating a large percentage of the sales to Dementia UK.

Thanks for reading this, and if anyone has any experience of dementia in their family please reach out. I’d love to learn more and support my Nan better.

Karma x

Just saying 💕

When you’re in the middle of nowhere and there’s a power cut with an estimated fix time of 11pm ...

Thank goodness for candles! ❣️

❣️**NEW PRODUCT** Scented Simmering Granules❣️

Beautiful simmering granules - a quirky alternative to wax melts for your burners.

Simply grab a scoop and pop some granules onto your burner 💞 A little goes a very long way so this cute little jar will last you a LONG time!!

Available in the following scents (with so many more to follow!!):

💗 Si

💛 Dreams Unstoppable

💙 Rock Salt & Driftwood

Each jar is 8cm high and comes with its own little cute scoop too!

They’re not on the website yet so drop me a message if you’d like to reserve one ☺️

❗️special introductory price of £9.95❗️

Thank you to everyone who nominated someone special - what a fab lot you are ❤️

I felt like I wanted to send you all a little something for being such lovely people!! Maybe I ought to make this a regular thing 🙂

The names drawn were

Carrie Paul - nominated by Clare Taylor 💞

Ellie Geary - nominated by Hannah Newman 💞

You’ll both receive one of our container candles and a travel candle too 🙂

Thanks to everyone for your nominations 😊

Carrie and Ellie I’ll drop you a message to arrange delivery/collection 🚚

Last call to nominate a complimentary candle gift to someone you feel deserves a treat ❤️

I’ll be pulling names from a hat this evening 🎩

It’s National Pay it Forward Day today ❤️

It’s a day I absolutely adore 🥰 so I’m going to do my own little candle version of pay it forward 🙂

If you, or anyone you know, deserves a little treat then either let me know who they are on this post (or message me separately) and I’ll pick 2 names at random and send them out a complimentary little candle pack ❤️

Because life should be more about giving not getting 🙂

Oo, what are these cute little scoops for?!
.. all will be revealed soon 🙈

It’s a little bit of 👽 Alien 👽 therapy this afternoon!

I love this smell ... it has more masculine tones than some of my other go-to scents ... it always makes me feel very indulgent and makes me think towards nights out 🍲🍷💃

Nights out - which we can do again 👏👏👏👏 though personally I’m going to wait till it’s a little bit warmer!!

It’s National Name Yourself day today ... which got me thinking 🤔

When I was growing up all I wanted was a normal name ... I wanted to be an Emma or a Jane; a name you’d be able to find on personalised pens 🖊, bags 💼 or notebooks 📓!!

It’s only as I’ve got older I’ve learnt to appreciate being called Karma, rude associations and all!

What about you?

❣️ Would you change your name if you could?

❣️ What would it be if you did?

🐣 Happy Easter 🐣

We’ve started the day with Hot Cross Buns ... and I have a sneaky suspicion that chocolate may be featuring heavily for the rest of it 😋

Wishing you all a lovely day x

🌼🥚🐰

🤍 These novelty silver heart tins make a great desk companion, a cute gift top up or a fab little travel candle 🤍

45mm x 45mm x 20mm

Available in a variety of popular scents ❣️

https://www.gkcandles.co.uk/product-category/heart-tins-travel-candles/

We LOVE this poster from Joanne Hawker Design & Illustration ❤️

It sits on the sewing desk as a nod towards Holly’s sewing projects and our handmade candles 💫

Last week marked a bit of a milestone with the sale of our 100th container candle!!

Thank you so much to everyone for your support ❤️

There’s a special little something on its way to that lovely 100th person 🥰

The candle-care cards have arrived 🚛

These will be going out with every candle order from now on 🛒

Oh I do LOVE a bit of merch!!

I’ve been playing around with Reed Diffusers this week - this one is the scent English Pear & Freesia 🍐🌸

Hoping to add these to the website sooooooooooon❣️

Just one or two test candles on the go today 🙈

Each time I introduce a new scent I burn test it thoroughly ⏰ I want to make sure the scent throw is as fabulous as can be and that there’s no smoking from the wick 👀

Oh it’s a tough job - a morning full of playing with candles 🙈❤️

ps - did you spot the little heart tin on the left? This is a new travel-candle I’ve been beta testing ❤️

pps - if you’d like a sneak preview of the new scents then pop over to
https://www.gkcandles.co.uk/

ppps - (and the most important message!!) - have a great weekend everyone ❤️

❤️ New Scents Coming Soon ❤️

❤️SOLD OUT❤️

Thank you lovely people!! 🙂

I am now sold out of the boxed gift sets but if you hadn't got round to ordering and were looking for a little something for Mothers Day please do still get in touch - I'll see if I can accomodate with a little bespoke gift set instead x

[email protected]

https://www.gkcandles.co.uk

💐 New Product Post 💐

🎁 Mother’s Day Candle & Chocolate Gift Box 🎁

To celebrate this being my first gift set I’m offering them at child friendly prices too 💐

If you’d like to see the scent options available then the list is: https://www.gkcandles.co.uk/product/mothers-day-gift-box/

Any questions etc then please feel free to drop me a message x

Our first gift box 🎁 I am sooooo excited 🌸

More details to follow 👀

❣️ Information Post❣️

How to order 🛒

Head over to www.gkcandles.co.uk for an up to date list of all our candle scents and other fun accessories such as candle coasters 🙂

All choices can be ordered via the website with two options:

Free Collection 🚗

3 Day Delivery 🚚

If you’re not sure which scent you’d like then I’d love to help you decide. You can message me directly through this page 📲

Sprinkle a little happiness with a scented candle 💖

★ 🎀 𝒩𝑒𝓌𝓈𝓁𝑒𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇 🎀 ★

Another first! The first of our fledgling monthly newsletters went out this morning, soooooo exciting!!

To those of you who have already subscribed I hope you enjoyed it ❤️

I had a lot of fun with this, though admittedly there were a few colourful words thrown around last night as I tried to navigate mailchimp for the first time 🙈

If you’d like to join our mailing list for March then I’d love to see you. You can sign up via https://www.gkcandles.co.uk/

🎶 rain, rain go away ... come again another day 🎶

I can’t make the rain go away or the sun come out 🙈 but I can do the next best thing - create a sunny day smell ☀️

I’ve been gifting little sample heart wax melts with recent orders and LOVED receiving this fab photo and feedback ❤️

“𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘬𝘺’𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺! 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘴𝘬𝘺𝘴 💙 𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘩 𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘶𝘱”

https://www.gkcandles.co.uk/product/blue-skies-container-candle/

Happy Thursday ❣️

I’ve been working on some well being candles over the past few weeks. Working from home, home schooling and juggling various other life curve balls can take its toll - it’s not always in obvious ways either, sometimes that toll manifests itself in a lack of motivation or a struggle to fall or stay asleep 😴

So here are my two go-to essential oils in a candle!

The first is ‘Relax’ - made with lavender essential oil it promotes relaxation and helps aid those feelings of anxiety. Perfect for just before bed or to accompany a beautiful bubble bath 🛁 maybe swap the tea for a 🍷 too!

The second is ‘Soothing’ - made with peppermint essential oil it enhances awareness and helps to improve focus. Perfect for those moments where motivation wanes ❤️

For the Crystal lovers (such as I am!) I have also made a Clear Quartz version too which helps us to see things more clearly 💗

Each come with a pretty scroll and a bag to place the Crystal in afterwards.

Plain essential oil candles are £6.25 each

Crystal essential oil candles are £7.95 each

These aren’t on the website yet so please drop me a message if you’d like to reserve one ☺️