Friday, February 5, 2010

Scent- Angel Food Cake



The aroma of fresh baked angel food cake with just the right amount of almond top notes. You'll think you're in Heaven.

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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Scent-Angelica


Begins with top notes of white lily, jasmine, and rose;
followed by middle notes of citrus, violet, and pepper;
sitting on base notes of patchouli, sandalwood and white musk.


A personal story- At the young age of 12 I felt a world of despair. Upon waking one morning while the dreams still lingered, I felt a kiss along my brow. I knew I had been visited by my great grandmother. She had brought me the peace that everything would eventually turn out OK. -Hyla Waldron

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Scent - Amazingly Grace



A feminine fragrance that will make you feel pretty. Italian bergamot and sparkling lemon are sweetened with freshly picked citron and neroli. a white floral jasmine, orange blossom and rose are blended with sheer musk and cedarwood.


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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Scent- Amish Friendship Bread


The aroma of fresh baked bread with notes of raisins, nuts and strawberries.

Amish Friendship Bread

"This is more than a recipe - it's a way of thinking. In our hi-tech world almost everything comes prepackaged and designed for instant gratification. So where does a recipe that takes ten days to make fit in? Maybe it's a touch stone to our past - to those days not so very long ago when everything we did took time and where a bread that took 10 days to make was not as extraordinary as it seems today. " Excerpt and recipe found HERE

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Scent-Acorn Harvest

A warm earthy nutty aroma with rich hints of buttery vanilla.


Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's
way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip through. One life for another.
- Shirley Ann Grau

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing
but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger,
fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith
gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E.F. Schumacher

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Scent- 7 Up Pound Cake



A perfect blend of warm cake, almond, vanilla, lemon, lime and sugar.

7 Up Pound Cake Recipe

  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup shortening
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
  • 5 eggs, at room temperature
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup 7 UP
For the Glaze:
  • 1/4 cup 7 UP
  • 1/2 cup sugar
Preheat oven to 300°F. Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.

Combine butter, shortening, sugar, vanilla and almond extract in the bowl of an electric mixer. Beat until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

In a separate bowl, combine the flour and salt, and add to butter/sugar mixture alternately with 1 cup 7 UP, beating well after each addition.

Spoon batter into prepared 10-inch tube pan, and bake for 1 hour and 45 minutes, or until cake tester comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then invert on serving plate and remove pan.

While cake is cooling, make the glaze by stirring together the 1/4 cup 7 UP and 1/2 cup sugar in a saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, and boil 1 to 2 minutes or until sugar is completely dissolved. Punch holes in top of warm cake with a toothpick. Spoon glaze over cake, and cool completely before serving.
Picture found HERE

Monday, January 4, 2010

Scent - 4 Leaf Clover


A wonderful floral ozony blend of clover
and green grass with hints of fresh cut wisteria.




I know a place where the sun is like gold.
And the cherry blooms burst with snow;
And down underneath is the loveliest nook,
Where the four-leaf clovers grow.

One leaf is for hope, and one for faith.
And one is for love you know;
But God put another in for luck--
If you search, you will find where they grow.

But you must have hope, and you must have faith;
You must love and be strong' and so.
If you work, if you wait, you will find the place
Where the four-leaf clovers grow.

~ Poem By Ella Higginson ~

Poem Found HERE