More news from Gold Canyon Convention - Prayer Child Foundation

Another highlight of the Gold Canyon Convention is the traditional time when Karen Waisath talks to us about the Prayer Child Foundation & introduces us to a family who has been helped by the efforts of the foundation. This is an extremely touching moment & one that we pass around the kleenex for. The Prayer Child Foundation was established by Gold Canyon to give financial assistance to families who are struggling with the bills that come along with having a child with health problems. 100% of Gold Canyon's profits from the Candles for Kids line go into the Prayer Child Foundation to help these families & we are also able to give donations to the foundation to help as well. But in addition to that, as demonstrators, we are encouraged to get involved in our communities to find those individuals that need a Prayer Child grant.

View a video clip here

You can get involved in the Prayer Child Foundation by:
purchasing a Candles for Kids
making a donation to the foundation
contacting me about someone you know who needs a grant from the foundation
or find out more at www.prayerchild.org

This season's Candles for Kids fragrances include:
Appl-icious
Grammy's Snickerdoodles
Baby Magic

Baby Powder

Sharing a personal favorite!

Those that really know me know that I have a passion for music. I've been singing & doing solo performances since I was very young, but unfortunately don't get those kinds of opportunities very much since high school ended :( Anyway, I would love if I could find a way to integrate music into my business, but since I haven't found a way to do that yet, I thought I could at least take a moment to share some wonderful music with my blog followers!

Jon Schmidt is one of my personal favorites to listen to. He is an exceptional pianist & I love the stuff he has composed. I just saw this video from him & had to share it. Hope you love it, too!

Display ideas for Gold Canyon's Footed Glass Hurricane

The Footed Glass Hurricane is one of the most versatile holders I've ever seen!

• You can decorate inside the hurricane or outside the hurricane
• You can use pillars, jar candles, votives, even other holders or diffusers inside the hurricane
• You can change the look for any season or holiday

Just check out all these fabulous decorating ideas and then tell me this . . .
why don't you have one of these yet?! LOL!

Gold Canyon's Great Fall Season!

This fall, I've come up with 3 great theme parties that you can
choose from for your Gold Canyon home party:

Death By Chocolate
Grandma's Goodies
Pamper Yourself

When you book a home party with me, you'll get a fun night with your friends while being introduced to some of these great new products in our fall line-up & earning some products FREE for yourself or for your gift-giving needs this year:

Gold Canyon Scent Blend Recipe: Cafe Mocha

Scent Blending Recipes are carefully selected recipes of individual candles that when burning together, create their own unique, blended scent experience.

To maximize your fragrant experience, use the exact sizes and quantities noted in each recipe - a slight alteration can be like adding salt when you needed sugar.

FIRST: Arrange the candles on a heat-safe surface with the largest in the middle and smaller candles interspersed throughout. For votive and Tealight candles, use a holder to protect the surface.

SECOND: Place each candle approximately two inches apart in your arrangement.

THIRD: Light each candle and let the aromas mingle for at least 30 minutes to create your new fragrance experience.

Featured Blend: Café Mocha

Try this delicious explosion of rich cocoa, creamy butter, roasted coffee and sweet vanilla. Enjoy this calorie-free dessert with the perfect coffee house ambiance.

Fabulous Fudge Brownie - 19 oz.
Hazelnut Café au Lait - 17 oz.
Drive 'em Coconuts - 16 oz.

Stock up on your Favorite Gold Canyon fragrances!

With the release of the new fall catalog, the following fragrances will be disappearing from the catalog. They'll be available until September 30th . . . but only while supplies last! While some of these may reappear in next year's Spring or Summer catalog, I can't be sure which ones those will be & which of these fragrances will be gone forever. So, if you have a favorite, its time to stock up!

Key Lime Pie
Lemon Bar
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
Garden Trellis
Vanilla Ylang
Casaba Melon Sunset
Coconut Mango Breeze
Juicy Pear
Love Struck
Strawberry Punch
Tea Berry Twist
Lemon Dream Pie
Strawberry Shortcake

I love my Gold Canyon Team!

One of the highlights of Convention is getting to spend time with the team members who are able to travel to Phoenix. This year, we had 9 of us from our team of nearly 200 who were able to make the trip & it was so much fun to get to spend time together laughing, crying, learning, inspiring & sharing with each other. My dear husband attended convention with us as well and opted to be the official photographer, so we could get some good shots of the whole team together. Here's a couple of my favorites:

Thanks, Ladies, it was a blast hanging out with you this year!

New Gold Canyon Product!

Every year at our Convention, one of the most exciting things is the anticipation over the new product that will be introduced . . . something entirely new to the line. This year, they introduced fine fragrance, Eau de Parfum. An Eau de Parfum is a stronger fragrance than an Eau de Toilet, so you don't need to use as much of it and our Eau de Parfum fragrances were developed to match 3 of our fine fragrance candles by the same company that created Calvin Klein's Obsession & many more popular fragrances!

What an exciting addition to our line up! Let me know if you want to try out some samples of these fragrances or have some fun with a fragrance personality test.

The most exciting part of Gold Canyon Convention?

On the opening night of Convention, we are introduced to the brand new fall products! Its the first chance we get to look at the new product that is being released and to smell the new fragrances, see new holders, and enjoy the return of our favorites from past years. We also get to walk through a huge set of displays! My camera ran out of batteries before I got to far, but luckily my husband had his camera there for me to use as well! I'll be showing off those display pictures throughout the whole season, but for now, here are the links so that you can view the catalog online!

P.S. If you'd like a "hard copy" of the catalog, just send me an e-mail with your address & I'll put one in the mail for you!

There's 4 different links because the catalog is so large that it is displayed in 4 different parts, so make sure you view each one!

Holiday Reflections 2009 Catalog PART 1

Holiday Reflections 2009 Catalog PART 2

Holiday Reflections 2009 Catalog PART 3

Holiday Reflections 2009 Catalog PART 4

Start Your Own Gold Canyon Business -- just $20!

Have you ever thought about doing what I do?
Maybe you'd like to earn a little extra money or get your candles for the best price possible?
Do you have a friend that could use an opportunity like this?

You can try out your own Gold Canyon business for just $20! See what you think & if its the right fit for you, you can continue on to reach your own dreams with your new business!

Check out the full details of our $20 Stimulus Kit here:
http://content.ll-0.com/gcessentials/StimKit_flyer7.pdf?i=080109155039

Home from the Gold Canyon Convention!

Well, we're back home from our trip to Arizona for the Gold Canyon Convention & some time spent with our family there. What a great trip it was & Convention was truly an amazing experience this year! I got to spend time with 8 of my amazing team members who were also able to make the trip & together we enjoyed lots of time to have fun, get motivated, and be inspired! Here's a video clip that will give you an idea of what Convention was like, but I hope you'll check back here over the next few days as I give even more details of what made this year's convention truly wonderful!

Do Your Friends Love Great Fragrance?

You may want to host either a home party or catalog party to earn over $100 in products for yourself (based on average party sales)! Check out our host flier for September to see all the goodies we're offering you & your customers at discounts & for FREE!

http://content.ll-0.com/gcessentials/SeptPromoFlyerUS.pdf?i=080109155051

Home Party: Invite your friends over for a party! I'll do a short presentation with some games & giveaways to introduce your friends to Gold Canyon. After taking orders, I'll add things up and treat you to a shopping spree for free & discounted products from our catalog!

Catalog Party: Maybe you'd like to do it another way! Take some catalogs & samples & show them off to your friends, co-workers, etc. Collect your orders & I'll add things up and treat you to shopping spree for free & discounted products from our catalog!

How Does Gold Canyon Develop New Fragrances?

Gold Canyon's incredible fragrances are one of the most important ways that we stand apart from the products that other companies produce. Check out this "inside look" at the fragrance testing lab & learn the basics on how new fragrances are developed and prepared for production. This was a video prepared for Gold Canyon Demonstrators, but as a fragrance addict, I thought you might enjoy it, too! By the way, they spilled the beans in this video about a new Emerge candle that will match our Emerge body products -- looking forward to seeing that one released soon!

Gold Canyon Convention -- Let the Excitement Begin!

Every year, I look forward to 2 1/2 days during August with much anticipation! Today is the first day of Gold Canyon's Convention in Phoenix, Arizona!

I'll get to meet up with team members & other demonstrators from all across the United States & Canada to renew friendships, network, & share ideas.

Tonight, we'll get a sneak preview of the new FALL CATALOG -- the most exciting catalog of the year! We'll get to walk around & view displays, get some samples to take home, and share in the excitement & buzz about all the new "stuff"! Its great fun & there will be very little rest tonight!

On Thursday, we'll get some great training & hear fun ideas from top demonstrators as well as guest speakers and get to take part in a fun Awards Night.

Friday will be just a half day, but will wrap things up, looking forward to an exciting fall season!

I'll be back next week with some great blog posts about all the new things that are coming our way for fall. In the meantime, I'll just be having a great 2 1/2 days full of energy & excitement. Then, I'll look forward to sharing everything with you next week!

Gold Canyon Diffuser Fragrances

As a Gold Canyon demonstrator, I get asked very often why our diffusers don't come in every fragrance, or at least the specific fragrance that that particular customer wants! In our Demonstrator Newsletter from Gold Canyon, there was an article that gave some great insight on this subject & I wanted to share it with you in case you were wondering why your favorite fragrance isn't available in our Diffusers.

http://www.imakenews.com/gcessentials/e_article001501113.cfm?x=bfRvVG1,b6CbBtPN

Gold Canyon's Recipe for a Summer Terrace Brunch!

This is a Scent Blending Recipe that was featured in our Demonstrator Newsletter from Gold Canyon. I thought I'd pass it along since it looked soooo good to me!

Scent Blending Recipes are carefully selected recipes of individual candles that when burning together, create their own unique, blended scent experience.

To maximize your fragrant experience, use the exact sizes and quantities noted in each recipe – a slight alteration can be like adding salt when you needed sugar.

FIRST: Arrange the candles on a heat-safe surface with the largest in the middle and smaller candles interspersed throughout. For votive and Tealight candles, use a holder to protect the surface.

SECOND: Place each candle approximately two inches apart in your arrangement.

THIRD: Light each candle and let the aromas mingle for at least 30 minutes to create your new fragrance experience.

Featured Blend: Summer Terrace Brunch · Strawberry Rhubarb Pie – 19 oz. · Juicy Pear – 16 oz. · Lemon Dream Pie – 8 oz. · Fruit Fusion tealights – 3 Celebrate the final month of summer with this delicious spread of warm pie and juicy fruits. Like summer brunch on the terrace, this fruity blend of strawberries, rhubarb, pears, lemons and more will make you savor summer to the very end!

Gold Canyon has Double Wicks?

Why would you want a double wick in your candle?

Have you ever burned a candle and had it create a tunnel down the center of the wax, leaving walls of wax all around the jar? To prevent that from happening & help you to use up all of that wax on the sides, Gold Canyon uses double wicks in all of their larger jar candles! The results? See for yourself in the following pictures! When you burn a Gold Canyon candle, you should be able to see straight through that glass, without any walls of wax in the way!

To ensure that you get the best burn out of your double wicks, make sure that you allow the candle to burn long enough that the wax melts all the way across the top of the jar before extinguishing it. Keep your wicks trimmed with a Gold Canyon wick trimmer to avoid cutting the wicks too short.

Enjoy!

Gold Canyon All-Purpose Cleaner - Bonus Use #2

Reading the label of our all natural All-Purpose cleaner, you'd think of basic cleaning uses like cleaning off the kitchen counters. With a smell that can't be beat, this one type of use, should be enough, right? However, there are so many BONUS uses for this cleaner that I'd like to spotlight for you.

Bonus Use #2: All-Around the House

As we're getting ready for a move, I'm cleaning some of those areas that are often neglected. I recently took a bottle of All-Purpose Cleaner around the house with me to clean all the doors. Chase was intrigued and wanted to help out & I had no fears as I handed him the washcloth that was covered in All-Purpose Cleaner --those natural ingredients (no chemicals), give me such a peace of mind when working around him!

Gold Canyon All Purpose Cleaner - Bonus Use #1

Reading the label of our all natural All-Purpose cleaner, you'd think of basic cleaning uses like cleaning off the kitchen counters. With a smell that can't be beat, this one type of use, should be enough, right? However, there are so many BONUS uses for this cleaner that I'd like to spotlight for you.

Bonus Use #1: Home Improvement Solutions

When we move into a new house, we're always amazed at what the previous owners did to it. We were covering up one of those crazy paint jobs (a poorly done green faux finish) left from the previous owners, when we noticed that all the light switch & electric outlet plates had paint on them as well. I tried scraping it off & it didn't work too well. So, I sprayed them with my ALL-PURPOSE cleaner and was amazed at the result. Using my fingernail, I just scraped the paint right off soooo easily! It also worked on the metal pieces where the door meets the door jam (don't know what they're called), though those took a little more work to scrape off, but certainly so much easier than doing it without the All-Purpose cleaner!

Gold Canyon Auto Fresheners - bonus uses #5

Gold Canyon Auto Fresheners are great in the car, but they can be used in other ways as well!

Bonus Use #5: This one is my favorite bonus use! If you have a musty or smelly vacuum or carpet, or if you just want an extra burst of your favorite Gold Canyon fragrance, cut up a Gold Canyon auto freshener & put it inside your vacuum cleaner bag or in the canister of your bagless vacuum. The pieces don't have to be tiny, just small enough to fit inside. When you turn the vacuum on, the air circulating inside the bag will activate the fragrance of the auto freshener.

Gold Canyon Auto Fresheners - bonus uses #4

Gold Canyon Auto Fresheners are great in the car, but they can be used in other ways as well!

Bonus Use #4: Have a particularly smelly trash can? Add a Gold Canyon auto freshener to the can before you put the liner in. You'll get an especially nice whiff when you're emptying that smelly trash can.

Gold Canyon Fundraising - Bonus for August & September!

Do you work with an organization that could use some extra funds? Gold Canyon has a great fundraising program where I can help your organization earn that extra money by selling the World's Finest candles! And in August & September, we're offering a bonus 2% profit to your organization!

Check out this flier for more details:
http://content.ll-0.com/gcessentials/FundrasingFlyer-Demo-Aug09.pdf?i=080109155043