dusk and dawn

SD Candles has collaborated with the very talented Apricot Paper & Co. - creator of the Work Horse Planner - to curate two candles that complement the art of planning, journalling and exploring your thoughts. Create a powerful ritual to realize your dream goals by lighting Dawn at the start of day to set your intentions in your Work Horse Planner. At the close of the day, light Dusk to reflect on your accomplishments. This candle duo is meant to motivate you to embark on the life you dream of and to provide yourself with daily accountability. 

Dusk and Dawn candles come in a concrete vessel accompanied with a beautiful cover that has a matchstick striker. You will also receive additional matches to light your candles at any time. Once you have finished burning your candle, you can clean the concrete vessel of its remaining wax and use it to hold stationary, or your most cherished pieces of jewelry. You can also use the vessel cover as a paper weight, especially when jotting down important notes in your Work Horse Planner.

This elegantly scented candle duo is hand-poured and is made using a natural crackling wooden wick and a luxurious blend of coconut apricot wax to give you that sensual and comforting feeling. SD Candles are clean-burning, non-toxic and vegan, and has roughly fifty hours of burn time with a net weight of 8 oz.  

Please visit https://www.apricotpaperandco.com/  to learn more about the wonderful products Apricot Paper & Co. provides. 

This collaboration is produced to embody love centred emotions. Love Mindset Mentor Gillian Shields and Steval Designs have curated two candles to ignite that feeling of love whether you are single, in a relationship, or married. 

Both candles. Romanced and Summer Date are made with the finest of fragrance oils and coconut wax, and embellished with rose petals. Additionally, we have increased the size of this special edition duo, to 10 oz so that you can experience longer love centred emotions.

Please visit www.gillianshields.ca to learn more about the wonderful services Gillian provides. 

On September 27th, 2020 a second genocide was launched against the Armenian people of Artsakh, otherwise known as Nagorno- Karabakh, by Azerbaijan backed by Turkey. Turkey being the nation responsible for the first systematic genocide on the Armenian people in 1915 under the veil of WW1. In their campaign to liberate the lands of Artsakh, Azerbaijan has relentlessly bombed civilian populated districts, forcing 100,000 Armenians to flee from their homes with no food, water, money or belongings. While the fighting may have stopped, the destruction of Armenian churches and monuments continues at the hands of the Azeri’s, in an attempt to re-write history where there exists no Armenia.

Bruised and broken, the Armenian people have come together in their pain to raise each other up, and to keep the fight in their hearts. As a proud Armenian I find myself pulled into this web of pain, and ask you to join me in lifting these families to their feet. 

I have included a new collection called “Un-breakable”. With your purchase from this collection 100% of proceeds will be donated to adopting a family – or two. In addition, 50% of all other collections will go towards the same efforts. Included in this new collection is the Lord’s prayer in both English and Armenian to ignite faith and hope that we as a nation will make a New Armenia together. In the words of William Saroyan

 …I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia. See if you can do it. Send them to the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.

                                                                                                - William Saroyan