HOW BASKET OF CANDLES CAME TO BE- THE OLD SCHOOL WAY
My name is Lori Lee Ray and I'm the owner of Basket of Candles. I am slightly addicted to Squidoo and You-Tube and I'm trying to make use of those two great resources in order to get my business off and running both online and offline.
My shop is located in my home, for now and I'm hoping by the end of 2009 that I will have an actual store along with my online sites. I'm an Independent Distributor for a gourmet candle company and mineral make-up line which you can't get any where other than a distributor or a fundraiser through our company. It's a really great company to be a part of. If you are interested in candles that will have your house smelling great or in having a fundraiser, then visit the links provided. We are also looking for more distributors, so if you would like to start your own business then this is a great place to start!
I started off making lenses mainly for my business. I found out really fast though that my love of so many things and my wandering mind, that I make lenses on anything that happens to cross my mind! So I am listing them here so that you can see just how diverse Basket of Candles is!
I have two kids that I'm really proud of. A daughter who is 10 and a son who is 27. No, that was not a typo. That is their actual ages! I made a smart remark to my dad once when I was a teenager and his response to me has been coming true ever since. So watch what you say to people!! I'll tell you the story and then I'll get to the business of my lensography..
Through most of my junior and high school years, my dad drove the school bus. Now, before any of my friends or I got old enough to drive, that was pretty neat, because Dad would let us sit in the back and listen to the radio. To my chagrin, I found out soon that even though I was his daughter, I was not exempt from having to sit on the front seat for breaking rules! Talk about embarrassing!
Anyways, each morning at 6:00 on the dot, Dad would come to my bedroom door and tell me, "It's time to get up."
Did I listen? No! I burrowed deeper under the covers because I'd stayed up so late the night before looking at my Tiger Beat magazines! Which, of course, would bring poor old Dad back to my door at 6:15 to say "Alright, gal. It's 6:15. I'm about to leave and you better get up." Sometimes I got up, sometimes I burrowed even more. Stubborn as I could be. At 6:20 one morning I got the message loud and clear that I'd better get up before I found out how many shades of red my rear-end could turn. Now, remember, I'm not a morning person, I curtly replied, "One of these days when school is finally out, I'm going to sleep as late as I want to!!!" Dad just said, "That's what you think, now get up and get moving, I'm leaving in 10 minutes." That exchange went on every school day for all 4 of my high school years.
In my last year of high school, the unthinkable happened. I learned really fast, and it wasn't from a book or school, that you CAN get pregnant the first time you think you are old enough to have S-E-X. I had my son three months before I graduated. Needless to say, Dad was right. I didn't get to sleep as late as I thought I'd be able to...
I woke earlier than I wanted every morning for the next 17 years. Getting up to get his breakfast, get him off to school, etc.. You know the routine! But finally I get him to his junior year in high school. 'I'm thinking YES!! FINALLY!! I can sleep as late as I want! I'm almost there!!'
During January of my son's senior year, my dad passed away but the day before he died, he made sure to kid me one more time about my sleeping in. I got married in March of my son's senior year in school at the ripe old age of 35. In April, guess what?
Yep. I found out I was having my baby girl! My son also graduated in April. I was up every morning getting the new husband off to work, then my baby girl came in December. Boy, is she an early riser! I've managed to make it 10 more years of waking up to get her off to school, etc.. and for some reason, I honestly believe my Dad is sitting up there on his cloud in heaven and having a ball laughing at me and my "sleeping as late as I want to!"
So never say you are going to do something just to show someone! It might come back on you!
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Basket Of Candle's Video Showcase
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Video is a great way to express yourself. Your hopes, your dreams or things you are passionate about. And it's one way I express myself. Some are requests, some are my own passions, and some are just blurps on the world wide web highway. I started o...
MY LENSES ON BOOKS AND AUTHORS
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James Scott Bell, The Author
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I've been an avid reader for 39 years, give or take a year or two, and it's very rarely that I run across a book that can hold my complete attention. You know the kind, that once you start reading it, you fall deeper and deeper into the story? Well,...
MY LENSES ON THE OUTDOORS
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Flowers In An East Texas Yard
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This lense is dedicated to two Grandma's who love flowers. One of them (78) belongs to the Master Gardeners of Angelina County Co-Op, here in Lufkin, Texas, and the other, my mom (72), is just an ordinary "play in the yard" type. The lady who belonge...
MY LENSES ON MILITARY
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THE AMERICAN VETERAN'S TRAVELING WALL
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The American Veterans Tribute set up The Traveling Wall May 21, 2009 in Lufkin at the V.F.W. post on 1800 Ford Chapel Road. The wall is in remembrance of those that lost their lives fighting for our country. It took several hours to assemble the 370...
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HONOR OUR HEROES
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God put this in my heart after I went through some photographs of armed servicemen. I hope it conveys the immense thankfulness I have for the fallen soldiers and our forces today. If not for them.. where would I be? May God bless them, their friends...
MY LENSES ON BUSINESS
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Candles & Gift Baskets
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Let's face it.... In today's economy, if you are going to make a purchase, don't you want to get your money's worth? If you love candles, like I do, then take a good look at the one burning in your home or office. How does it look to you? Like the ph...
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THE ABC'S OF FUNDRAISING
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But can any fundraiser bring you a high profit? Can you look back on a fundraising and think, "Wow! That was simple AND we made our goal!"? Chances are you've already had the endless parade of knocking on doors and begging people to buy products tha...
MY LENSES ON MUSIC & ART
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The Lonesome Whippoorwill
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"Hear that lonesome whippoorwill, it sounds too blue to fly," starts off the lonesome sounding song written by Hank Williams in 1949.The song is titled "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry and it was #111 on Rolling Stones top 500 Greatest Songs of All Time....
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Odd Art Gallery
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SquidArt Gallery courtesy of SquidArttoo Every once in a while I run across things on the web that just totally fascinate me. I see it and think how neat, funny, strange or just plain odd it looks and then I delve deeper into it. I am awestruck by th...
MY LENSES ON HISTORY
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What Happened In The 70's?
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We'll go back to the music, the sports, the television shows, movies, and just about everything else that the 70's had to offer us in the form of entertainment. You remember the 70's.. don't you? Back when the music came on vinyl records AND 8-track...
MY LENSES ON HUMOR
Blue Collar Comedy is rated R as I won't allow my own child to watch Ron White and I didn't want anyone else underage viewing it!-
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KIDS SAY THE FUNNIEST THINGS
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As the song says, Kids Say The Darndest Things! And this lense is devoted to the funny things that kids say. Out of the mouths of babes are some of the truest words ever spoken! I hope you can relate to some of the things that you'll read on here and...
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Blue Collar Comedy Tour Video Showcase
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Where can you find the best redneck comedy in true redneck style? Any place you find the Blue Collar Comedy Tour! Known by the signature line, "You might be a redneck," Jeff Foxworthy started touring with Ron White, Bill Engvall, and Larry the Cable...
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Laughter Is The Best Medicine
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And I hope to be like my grandmother... laughing myself to the grave. She lived to the ripe old age of 95. There was never a dull moment around her. She had the most humorous tales and episodes! When she was placed into a nursing home, by the evil un...
MY LENSES ON ANIMALS
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CLASSES OF ANIMALS
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To make it easier to study animals, they have been arranged into classes. Each animal class is made up of animals that are alike in important ways. There are many kinds of animal classes and each one has a name. Every kind of animal belongs to one of...
MY LENSES ON GOING GREEN
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Natural Wax Candles
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(Al-Jazari's candle clock in 1206; public domain) Candles have been lighting the way for man for centuries. Some of the earliest candles were made from tallow, beeswax, indigenous insects, fruits from the cinnamon tree, plants, and wax made from tree...
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50 WAYS TO GO GREEN
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This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License I started out researching Earth Day and ended up compiling a list of ways to go green from various sources which include the internet, television, and things that my...
MY LENSES ON THE WEST
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SALOON OF OLD WEST TOWN
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Never been in a saloon you say? They are alright places. Them fur trappers, cowboys and them soldiers git thirsty! Some of them gold miners would trade ya a bit of gold to git a good ol' snoot of whisky. They tried not to get mixed up too much with t...
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SPICES ARE HERE!
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Hello and welcome to my spice shop! Did you know that in the story of Genesis, Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers to spice merchants? And Solomon compared his beloved to many different forms of spices! Vasco da Gama sailed to India in 1499...
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Yesterday's Memories Of The Old West
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Howdy There! I'm Goodness Nose. I run the genr'l store here in these parts. I wanted to tell ya a story about candles back in our days: "Back in the earlier part of the 1800's a lot of folks were still makin' their own candles. They would melt down...
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GRANNY B'S BAKERY & PIES
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Long before sun-up, a lone figure rises and starts the day by stokin the fire in the wood-stove. Sometimes that means gathering up kindlin or chopping wood. But If a pie is to be made today, then her bakin must start before the sun washes over the wi...
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OLD WEST FARMERS MARKET
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Our farmers market follers the other market places, wheres we have stuff to sell and we'll trade thangs. The old time market places usta be set up in the city square and had all sorts of traders. Them traders would set up some tables and shelves an...
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POTIONS, LINIMENTS & OTHER WARES
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Howdy there! Welcome to Potions Palace! I'm Percival Flagstone. Your gonna learn all about the different ways to care for the goods ya buy in our Old West Town Series. There are tips, facts and all sorts of goodies to learn and know in the care of yo...
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WEST WE GO STAGECOACH LINES
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Whether ya rode in on your horse, a stagecoach or even on the train, we're glad ya made it! Here at our depot and horse corral, you can find yerself a really good way to travel! Just check out our schedules and packages below and you'll soon have car...
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FRAGRANCES FEED STORE
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What's more relaxing than the memory of sitting in grandma's flower garden or in a budding park? Sitting there surrounded by all of the beauty of nature and shaded by the flowering trees, breathing in the fresh air fragrances of honeysuckle, roses an...
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DOCTOR SCENTS OFFICE
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There ain't very many doctors around these parts. Most people have to cure themselves with herbs 'n such. Some folks, like the blacksmiths, will pull a tooth for ya if ya need it really bad. They have them tongs that they use shoe'n the horses. It'll...
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MAMA NOSE LAUNDRY SCENTER
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Welcome to Mama Nose Laundry Scenter. I'd like to tell ya about how we warsh clothes here, in case you ever want to drop your laundry off. Papa Nose (down at the General Store) gathers up firewood and puts my wash pot full of water on it. That pot se...
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BESSIE'S BOARDIN' HOUSE
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Hi there! I'm Bessie. I run this here boardin house. There's quite a few single ladies here that moved in when their husbands took ill with the fever. There's a couple here that have a bit of a checkered past. They like paintin' themselves up and sta...
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OLD WEST JAIL
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The citizens of this nameless town (leave your nomination for a name on Yesterday's Memories' guestbook) have built a jail and ordered badges in hopes that the citizens of the world wide web will vote them up in ranks! As soon as their newspaper (Yes...
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OLD WEST PICTURES
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Howdy stranger! Good to see you today. My name's Laton A. Huffman. Would ya care to have yer picture made? I've been takin' pictures and movin' pictures for a while. This ol' 50 pound camera of mine has really seen some thangs! Hop up on that stool o...
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