Scent your home with Fornasetti

Famously known for his black and white portraits, these candles take the work and legacy of legendary painter Fornasetti and add a stunning, colourful twist. This popular range of scented candles has been given a new, modern life with the addition of colourful, new designs that act as a beautiful ornament in your room as well as letting a gentle fragrance drift through your home.

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The gorgeous Giardino Segreto (that’s “secret garden” for those of you not fluent in Italian!) combines gorgeous foliage with a quirky crowd of owls- peeking out from between the leaves and pillars that adorn the crockery.

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The candle is designed to diffuse in varying segments, meaning that the fragrance will change the longer you keep the candle burning. This helps to avoid the sense of being over powered by the scent, which can be the case with other ranges of scented candles. This one will fill your home with scents of the garden, ranging from the scent of fresh greenery to a more herbaceous fragrance as the candle burns.

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The other lovely new range that has been launched is the Flora di Fornasetti- taking a classic image and giving it a new, modern make-over with elegant flashes of colour in the shape of dainty flowers. The scent is also based on a more floral arrangement than the Giardino Segreto and will take you from a rich, fruit-like fragrance to an aromatic, sandalwood scent.

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Beautiful as they are, these candles to come with quite a price tag (ranging between £65-£300 depending on the size) but they are certainly something that we love enough to start saving those pennies!

Thursday thought by tuiss :: Babybel candles

Thursday thought is all about doing something simple to do your bit to help the planet. This one isn’t ever so simple but it does sound like fun!

My children love Babybels but I do ever so slightly fell aggrieved at both the cost and the packaging. Well I’ve sorted one of them! I spotted on Condo Blues a great idea of turning the red wax into a candle.  Instructables also gives instructions for candle-making with babybels.

Get chomping kids!

Getting ambient with candles

The nights have drawn in here in the UK. Curtains are being closed across the land, throws are no longer laying decoratively on the back of the sofa but are warming up toes instead. There is light at the end of the tunnel though, we can all start lighting candles again!

I have found a selection of candles and candle holders, some are fairtraded, some made from recycled materials and some are made from soya oil and bees wax. There’s even an olive oil lamp.

For a light hearted take on the environmental issues surrounding candles go to New Scientist.

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100% renewable soy wax and fairtrade to boot

100% soy wax in reusable glass jar

100% soy wax in reusable glass jar

Candle in bamboo candle, hand poured in Thailand

Candle in bamboo candle, hand poured in Thailand

Keeps tetra pak from landfill, fairtrade too

Keeps tetra pak from landfill, fairtrade too

Recycled glass tea light holder

Beautiful recycled glass tea light holder

Made in Cornwall, handpainted windfelled timber

Made in Cornwall from hand painted wind felled timber

Brighter than a candle, uses 99% renewable olive oil, US shipped

Brighter than a candle, uses 99% renewable olive oil, US shipped

Vegetable palm oil tealights, nicer alternative than paraffin based lights

Vegetable palm oil tealights, nicer alternative than paraffin based lights

Chunky recycled glass candlestick in green

Chunky recycled glass candlestick in a variety of colours