My Current Yankee Candle Collection

 I am a long time fan of Yankee Candles. Only recently though I treated myself to the black cat burner, and it has completely changed everything! The little wax tarts I feel have a much stronger scent than the jar candles and it's so easy to pick up loads of different ones and try lots of different scents. My sister got me the other burner for my birthday and I was delighted!

So the wax tarts I currently have are:

Home Sweet Home

Tarte Tatin

Pain au Raisin

Fireside Treats

Gingerbread Maple

Kilamanjaro Skies

Red Raspberry

Mango Peach Salsa

Cranberry Twist

Garden Sweet Pea

I also have about a third of last year's Halloween Candy Corn jar candle left. I absolutely love the design of this jar and I will definitely be keeping this. But I am not a huge lover of the Yankee Candle Halloween scents. Much prefer the Christmas ones by far! Also this Candy Corn one never burned right for me. It ends up with this massive flame and smoke coming out of it. But I do want to use it up so that I can clean out the jar and keep it (not sure what I'm going to do with it, but it looks pretty).

I am sure there are plenty of Yankee Candle fans out there! I want to know what all your favourite scents are, tell me in the comments!

The Best Things About Christmas

Christmas Trees, fairy lights, decorations, glittery things!

Festive Yankee Candles

Listening to Michael Buble's Christmas album on repeat

Dressing up your pets and making them pose for photos!

Drinking copious amounts of hot chocolate 

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and my best wishes for New Year. Thanks so much for viewing and reading my blog throughout the year, it really means the world to me!

Grace x

My Christmas Gift Ideas

Christmas is my absolute favourite time of year! I love giving (and receiving!) presents, and I have picked a few things that are a safe bet to buy, for your sisters, friends or work colleagues.

1. A Yankee Candle. I am a huge lover of Yankee Candles, and I do not know who wouldn't want to receive one as a gift! Their Christmas candles are a family favourite at Christmas time, and I really don't think Christmas would be the same without a lovely Yankee Candle!

2. A nice perfume! A perfume will always be well appreciated. I think most people tend to lean more towards more musky, woody scents in Winter. I have pictured Thierry Mugler Angel, which I did a review of here ! It is a lovely smokey scent, and the bottle also looks pretty festive!

3. A Lancome Mascara Set! If you want to buy a present of the cosmetic variety, a mascara is a great choice as you can't really go wrong. The Lancome sets are brilliant, as you get a little Crayon Kohl and Bi-Facil eye make up remover and are a great introduction to Lancome eye make up. I have pictured Doll Eyes, a fantastic mascara! But all of the Lancome mascaras are absolutely phenomenal in my opinion!

4. Make your own hamper! This is something that I like to do each year as I have a big family, it's nice to make up a hamper instead and there will be something in there for everybody. I love picking up bits and pieces from Marks and Spencers, they have brilliant things around Christmas and great offers too. I pick up a selection of sweets, mints, biscuits etc. and then I have fun wrapping them all up in a hamper!


I hope this post has maybe provided some inspiration! Have you started Christmas shopping yet?

The nicest Yankee Candle ever?

Bit of a random post today. Last week I spotted this in the Yankee Candle shop. I was quite intrigued, and when I opened the lid to have a sniff, I actually swooned! Yes, it smells exactly like chocolate! The scent is so realistic, do you know those horrible artificial chocolate scents. This one actually smells good enough to eat. I light this and instantly the room smells like a beautiful chocolate fudge cake. Perfect for any chocoholics out there!

Recent Purchases! Featuring Yankee Candle & Revlon!

So my plan of not spending money on random stuff and saving up for my holidays isn't exactly going as planned! One little relapse is ok, right?

So on one of my usual trips to the Yankee Candle shop for a browse, I bought this small jar of "Paradise Spice" and a sampler of "Margarita Time"! I thought they were so lovely and fresh, they are the most summery Yankee Candles ever! After buying them I had £10.00 off on my reward card so I decided to get a big jar. The new Yankee Candle summer scents are amazing, but in the end I went for "Citrus Tango" - I love citrusy scents and this one is divine! I am trying to burn them one at a time, so as you can see Paradise Spice has been my first choice. It smells like pineapples!

So… you know Boots have 3 for 2 at the moment and I really wanted to try some Revlon stuff. I have heard so much about Revlon but I honestly have never tried anything from the brand, apart from a foundation. I know I really wanted a Lip Butter and I chose the shade Juicy Papaya! It is a great coral shade for summer. I also really wanted to try one of the Electric Chrome nail polishes, inspired by the new Amazing Spider-man 2 film. I chose Super-Powered, a gorgeous metallic blue. I love this shade, and I love the cute bottle with the spiderweb detail on the lid.
So of course I needed to pick a third item! And that item was one of the new scented nail polishes. The only colour I really wanted was this nice hot pink colour. This one is called African Tea Rose, and after trying this one I can safely say I do not like the scent! It is a bit overpowering at times and is a very strong, smells like a horrible perfume. The colour is nice though!

So, a slight relapse but hopefully I shall regain some self control and not buy anything else for a few weeks!

The Yankee Candle Appreciation Post

I'm sure I'm not the only one who can't walk past the Yankee Candle shop without having a little wander in and smelling all of the candles! A few years ago, I wouldn't really bother with scented candles or anything like that, but recently it just seems that I can't get enough of Yankee Candle.

The above photo shows some candles I got recently in a little set of spring/summer scents. I love these sampler sizes, each one burns for up to 15 hours and it's a good way to try new fragrances.

My all time favourite Yankee Candle is Vanilla Lime. I seriously cannot get enough of it. The smell is good enough to eat, really! Sadly my last Vanilla Lime candle recently burned out but I do have this room spray which I really like. I like to give each room a spritz of this, and I even spray it in my car.

When my big jars burn out I like to clean them out and use them to store things in. I keep these two jars in my bathroom to store my cotton pads and cotton buds!

What's your favourite Yankee Candle?