2007 My year for Success

Tonight is New Years Eve and there is a full moon this week.
Per my tradition I will be having a sacred fire and setting intentions for 2007.

The theme this is My year for Success!

I was rereading my blog post from last new years eve and I must say that operation "Emily loves 2006" was indeed successful! What a year of lessons and interesting forks in the road and yet, I come out of 2006 with a deeper love and respect for myself than I ever knew possible.
I decided the best way to share love with other's was to start with myself. I loved myself enough to let people go from my life that were unhealthy, I let work situations go that were very negative and I let my past resentments towards my parents go. In the end, I learned to love and respect myself and what is best for me. And I learned to forgive and heal!
I now feel and treat myself with only love and positive thoughts which means that I can now freely share love and energy with people in my life.

After doing some thinking about 2007 I realized that this next year for me is about working and success. I have finally found that passion that everyone seems to be looking for. I have found my calling and way that I can help other's all in one. All I want to do now is share this passion with as many people as I can. I love making candles, I love creating oil blends that will help to heal and create positive situations in life. I love the peace I feel when I make a candle and the excitement I feel when a customer writes to tell me of how their life has changed.
With all this energy I want to dedicate 2007 to growing this company, touching as many people as I can and sharing my gifts with everyone I can. I want to become successful in my job and my career but more importantly, I want to become successful in my life. I want to feel like everyday I am making a difference and I am where I want to be. I want to focus on growing my view of this world and realizing what is truly important to me, not what other people want for me but what is important to the core being of me.

So I embrace you 2007 for letting me see the signs of how to create the most successful year I can and I intend to follow through on every action you present to me.

Holiday weekend of candles

This Holiday weekend was filled with candle making and sleeping.
It must be the weather or the end of the year energy but I am exhausted right now.

But my dream life has been very active. Last night I dreamt that I was speaking with two women who work at the company I work for. They were working on a Spiderman outfit. This morning as I was driving to the Bus, the author and creator of Spiderman was on NPR. I was shocked and I have stumbled upon Spiderman twice on the Internet without looking.

So now I have to figure out what this means. What does the spider stand for?
I am pretty sure I am not going to be come a superhero or cartoon author so I think the symbol of the spider is what is important.

That is about it for now. I am so exhausted I need to just work, clean my house and keep making candles.

The NYC Story

I have a little down time to tell everyone about my trip back east.
It went better than I could have or did think was possible.

I received so many orders, so much support, excitement, appreciation and respect from everyone I met. People that were strangers already knew about Odessa's Herbals and wanted to share their stories with me. They all felt very connected to the candles and to my company. It was truly amazing.

I also am proud to say that my candles will be coming to a store on the east coast very soon!

There are more events that I can not talk about yet, but, could truly lead to an amazing journey for me.

I feel so grounded and amazing when I made products. It truly feels like my calling. I love the fact that I can help other people. I think that is my main motivation for doing this work. I want to help people create better and better lives for themselves. I think this lovely energy translates into each product that I make. I hope when someone is lighting a candle, they feel the love and energy I put into that product for them.

Ok, today I am working on a new wax recipe so I must get back to the kitchen but I just wanted to thank everyone that I have met in the last month. You are all angels to me!

Whoa Nelly

NYC was amazing and the energy has not stopped.
I feel like the universe is throwing open doors right now and I am just hanging on for the ride.
The amount of vistors to Odessa's Herbals has more than doubled in the last two weeks.

I am posting a new picture and I will have to write more another day since I have to take some pictures of the candles for a possible article.

All the candles are wrapped and my bags are packed

I can't believe it. Last month when I had the flash to go to NYC, I had no idea how I was going to do it. I also had no idea how I was going to make over 30 candles to take with me as gifts for all those attending the conference.

But now, with 24 hours to go.... Everything is done.

I finished the last of the candles, I shipped everything, I packed my bags, I am all ready to go.

This is one of the first big jumps I have taken off the intuition diving board. I am really excited to see what comes of it, if nothing else, it will be great to see family and friends.

What a weekend!

Where to begin?......

This truly has been one of the best weekends I have had in a long time.

First, Friday night I went out with my new coworker to LOLA. I hope I have mentioned LOLA before because it is my new favorite place to hangout in Seattle. We then met up with another friend of mine who is the product manager for a really awesome magnet company. She took us to the opening at Fancy-Schmancy-Pants for Trish Grantham. Trish is truly a new hero of mine. She was so much fun to talk too and has such an amazing story about how she got started as a painter. I hope to buy one of her pieces in the next few months. Please check out her website and support her. She rules!!!!!

We then went to a benefit at Vain in Seattle for a dear friend that was diagnosed with breast cancer. Vain was lovely enough to host the event and benefit which was a hit!

I had so much fun on Friday night I never dreamed that I got top it but then Sunday I finished all 40 of the candles I need to ship to NYC. I had three friends come over and with the help from my lovely mother, we were able to wrap and box up all the candles and they will be shipped in time for the conference. The best part is that I do not have to rush to finish the candles on Tuesday night. I still have three more days until I go to NYC and I can now relax. We were also able to play cards, have breakfast and lunch and play a few board games while wrapping all the candles. It was a perfect day.

The new packaging for Odessa's Herbals is wonderful. The packaging is still a work in progress but I am very proud of how the candles will look when they are delivered to NYC.