March FEST Blog Giveaway Will Light Up Your Life

Tweet Your world will be all aglow with our March FEST Blog Giveaway from SharonsCandleShop. Sharon has always loved candles and started designing and pouring her own a few years ago. For a long time, she had an interest in working from home or starting her own business. And how lucky we are that Sharon opened her shop on Etsy and is offering one of her lovely original candles as our March Giveaway.

Her Two Tone Pillar Candle Giveaway, above, is beautifully textured and measures 3 inches in diameter and 6.5 inches in height. It can be crafted in your choice of two fragrances. You get to choose one main color. The bottom half will be a color of your choice and the top half will be several shades lighter in the same colorway.

Sharon also creates these lovely octagonal shaped votive candles. Each pack has a different variety of fragrances and you can also choose your special fragrance by sending her an email or a convo.

You can visit Sharon at her Etsy Shop to see more of her lush and love candles at SharonsCandleShop.

HOW TO ENTER: Enter to win this wonderful Two Tone Candle by visiting SharonsCandleShop or any of the FEST member shops listed on the top of our Blog Page. Find your favorite item, share it with us and tell us why you love it. Remember to add your email address or contact info so we can connect with you if you are the Winner! Winner picked on 04/03/12. Simple and Easy!

Team Member Blog Share

Tweet We have a fabulous tutorial share "How to Make Wine Cork Magnets" from one of our teamies: TheWoodenBee

Materials needed:

Oak Wine Corks

Drill
Glue
Magnets
This is a messy project because of the cork that will be removed with the drill, so I would definitely cover an area, or do this project outside. Let’s get started…

First decide which side of your oak cork you would like to be the front of the magnet. You will drill a hole for the magnet on the opposite side. The size of the drill bit doesn’t really matter (unless it is better than your magnet). You are going to use the drill to dig out a shallow hole the size of the magnet.

Don’t worry the holes don’t have to be perfectly circular or anything special. As you dig out the cork with the drill you can stop and check to see if the magnet is fitting. You want the magnet to fit in flush with the cork. If you drill or dig too deeply into the cork, don’t worry either, that’s what the glue is for. I use both sides of an old paint brush to help get extra pieces of cork out of the way as I’m drilling.
Magnets

There are several magnets you can use. I selected Neodymium Rare Earth Magnets, size 3/8 x 1/16. I purchased a set from a cute little Etsy shop. Each little magnet can pull a little over 2 pounds and holds down several sheets of paper . What is important in magnet selection, is that they are stronger enough to hold what you would like, and small enough to fit nicely into your cork.
Glue
Now, we are ready to glue. I would recommend an industrial strength glue, like E-6000. It dries clear and is strong enough to hold the magnet to the cork while it is in use. I also like it because E-6000 is waterproof, non-flammable and washes off my hands easily. Just fill the drilled hole with glue and place the magnet in the center. If some glue oozes out or gets on the magnet, don’t worry it will peel off the metal when it is dry.
It is important to note here that the magnets will attract to each other while you are doing this project. Once glue has entered the picture, I would keep the corks with magnets drying in them, far away from other corks with magnets drying in them! I used some wood molding sticks to separate them, but you can use plates, cups, Tupperware, anything that would help separate the corks while keeping them face down to dry. E-6000 recommends you let the glue dry 24-72 hours. I found after 24 hours all was dry and ready for use.

This project allows you to showcase special wine corks. Like corks that are from a rare bottle of wine on a special anniversary, or unique corks that have pretty markings. I like to use oak wine corks that have natural wine staining on the ends.

Happy Crafting!

And of course, if you would like to me to make you a set, just hop on over to our shop!

March's Em- Powering Days

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And as part of this month activities, we would like to share our picks from the Florida Etsy Street Team to help your Shuistrology for this month.

MARCH 3  Uh oh, month starts off with a bit of heat as the Sun opposes retrograding Mars causing a choice between compromise or conflict and resolution over real life bullshit drama. CHOOSE wisely. And well. And drink some calming ginger tea too. Speaking of calm – all the day long, whenever you can consciously inhale, breathe in the word ‘peace.’ Breathe it out too. Eat it. Drink it. Swallow it. Place it in your heart. That way the conflict and the drama will slide right off while leaving peace-full you all alone. Or you can say the secret prayer that author J. Cornug found when researching ancient and powerful sacred texts: “Labbiel, Labbiel, Labbiel. I call forth truth and peace in my world now and continuously.” Okay, NOW you’re good to go! Can somebody give me an ‘Amen!’

 

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MARCH 4   Venus opposing Saturn so all work and no play will make you – HAPPY! No kidding. No fooling. Literally. Nose to the grindstone today will make you sharper and way more respected/recognized/rewarded in the immediate future. Having a quartz crystal around – hanging over your head or over the top of your computer especially – enhances personal power. It’s ALL good.

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MARCH 5  Venus enters Taurus while Mercury the Messenger whispers sweet somethings to electric, unpredictable Uranus. Ideas and inspirations come flying out of the blue. Or you can consciously connect with this cosmic quilt of imagination by burning some sandalwood incense and asking for inspiration. That’ll work too. Either way, take the time to cultivate new ideas, they’re gonna be HUGE!

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MARCH 6  Venus is sexy – sexy – sextiling Neptune. Go and get your glam on. SPA DAY! OR you can get really woo woo and use a magical mantra to make everyone go “whooooo hoooooo.” Taoist secrets from The Dharani Sutra say that if you recite the following mantra over a flask of water SEVEN times and then wash your face with the blessed water, all persons will delight in your countenance. You can also recite this same mantra 108 times over make-up for that exact same WOWZA effect: “ NAMO BHAGAVATE USNISAYA DHARE DHARANTIYE SVAHA.” Now, c’mon, where else are you going to find information like that??????

 

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MARCH 8  FULL MOON in Virgo. Shine a light on your closet and start to shed some light and some weight. Give clothes and accessories away and make room for all the new that’s heading your way. That would be in April. The organizing should begin now.

 

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MARCH 12   Mercury the Messenger joining Mars in retrograde. Staying there until April 4. But offset, well, slightly at least, by Jupiter trine Pluto today too! Now there’s some kind of conundrum. See, today is possibly the SINGLE BEST DAY OF THIS WHOLE YEAR to engage in any sort of financial chatter but, with Mercury retro you can’t sign anything. Just yet. Doesn’t mean that you can’t or shouldn’t draw a green dollar bill symbol on the palm of your left hand and leave it there all day though. Nope, doesn’t mean that at all!

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MARCH 13  Venus trine Pluto and all’s right with the world – especially the one involving clients. Breathe. Collective sigh of relief as wallets are opening and generosity is in the air. Put a one gold coin in each of the four corners of your dining room and leave them there for AT LEAST nine days. Let’s get money flowing and filling you ALL up!

 

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MARCH 14  SUPER STELLAR DAY is here! SUPER STELLAR DAY is here! And it’s bound to be one of the best days of this entire year. So I shared a secret cure that I usually reserve for private clients and paid reports alike. Because this day is THAT special. But, well, you know you can only get that info if you are a subscriber to my free monthly newsletter. THEN YOU TOO ARE ONE OF THE EMPOWERED (and soon to be BIG BLESSED!) ELITE! Sign up here: http://www.ellenwhitehurst.com/

 

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MARCH 17  Coming soon to lucky you – my latest report CHANGE YOUR LUCK, CHANGE YOUR LIFE! Keep eyes and ears open for more info on how to do both in one fell swoop. In the meantime, come on over to the Facebook page today (www.facebook.com/EllenWhitehurst) to MAKE THIS YOUR LUCKY DAY!

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MARCH 18  Mercury the Messenger, still in retrograde but conjunct Uranus just the same. Another day that’s chock full of inspiration and BIG (read: BIG!!) ideas. I smell brilliance in the air. As long as I smell sandalwood incense connecting you to it too! Thoughts might go up in smoke but the big idea is here to stay. Keep a pen handy. A red one.

 

 

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MARCH 20   Sun enters Aries and the Spring Equinox has sprung into action setting the tone for the explosive energies lighting up the rest of the season. Passions and possibilities. Fate and freedom. Come one, come all. Oh, and, come out, come out wherever you are iris and magnolia. In fact, the magnolia should be somewhere by your front door. Blooms blessings. For this season only. Spring into action and put a magnolia at the entry. Good stuff.

 

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MARCH 24   Sun brightening brilliant Uranus. Once again the creativity in the air is off the hook. Locate the ‘Children/Creativity’ area of your main floor and play music there. Dance there. Ring a bell there. Hang a metal windchime there. Put an image of a rainbow there. Come one. Do all. Just do something to recognize and appreciate your own creativity and then be prepared to experience and avalanche of same!

 

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MARCH 29   Boo. Hiss. Sun squaring off against a persnickety Pluto. Boo. Scary. Authority figures prominently in today’s equation while prominent authority figures are on the hunt. HIDE. Period. Down low kids or don’t say I didn’t warn you. And wear white. It deflects.

 

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