New at Grace's

We have some new items up on the website for you to peruse. We have just added the Madison Avery line of sterling silver Fleur de Lis and Angel Jewelry. This is a must see for the holidays coming up. We have new necklaces, earrings, pins and tie pins. Check out the new jewelry at: http://www.gracesmoon.com .

Also we wanted to give everyone an update on the Esteem Home Fragrances Candles. If you haven't been keeping track, we make these candles by hand ourselves. So far they are doing very well. We most recently participated in a wonderful event with the Humble Area Chamber of Commerce. It was a Ladies Night Out held at the Humble Civic Center. We were a vendor and of course we displayed our Esteem Candles. They were a hit. We are gearing up to release 6 new fragrances: Amaretto Spice, Pineapple Cilantro, Bird of Paradise, Milk & Honey, Fresh Brewed Coffee and Vanilla. We are very excited about these new additions. Please keep a look out on the blog and the website to see when we release them. Check out the Esteem Home Fragrances on our website as well: Esteem Candles

It Just Keeps Getting Better

Hello All,
The title of the post says it all. The store is doing well and believe it or not, it is time to display the Holiday Decor (Yikes!). It's seems so early, but thus is retail.

This little post is mainly about the Esteem Home Fragrances. In the last post I mentioned that a store in downtown Houston had picked them to sell. Reports are good from The Pretty Penny. The candles are doing great. Even better news...A Hallmark store in Galveston has picked up the entire line for the Fall and Holiday Season. This is a trail basis only, if they go over well they will keep them throughout the year. HOW EXCITING IS THAT?!?!

As ususal I am posting a link to our website so you can check out the new items and the candles. Grace's Unique Gift Boutique (www.gracesmoon.com)

Esteem Goes Wholesale ... How Exciting!

Okay everyone, this is going to be a very quick post. I am so very excited to report that in 4 weeks we have sold well over 100 Esteem Candles. Above and beyond that, we have been contacted by 2 different stores, one in downtown Houston and another in Beaumont. The store downtown, The Pretty Penny, has already placed their first wholesale order with us. The other store (I will not mention yet), has taken testers to try in their stores. We are very very excited about this and hope all goes well to lead into a whole new line of business for us.

Thanks to everyone for the good thoughts and wishes.

Esteem Home Fragrances

Okay the Esteem Candles are doing quite well in the store. I finally released them with 8 different fragrances. Pomegranate, Pearberry, Sandalwood, Sugar Cookie, Mediterranean Fig, Pomegranate & Sage, Powder Fresh and Texas Tea are the eight. I have already sold out of them once and have been forced to re-pour them in larger quantities . Of course my goal is to wholesale them to other stores like ours.

In the meantime we have decided to make Reed Diffusers as well (as if we have so much spare time). I have bee testing them for about a month now and the process is going great. We are simply searching for elegant containers for oil. I will of course keep everyone up-to-date when we release Esteem Reed Diffusers.

You can check out the Esteem Candles at our website: www.gracesmoon.com.

Until Next Time...

Introducing Esteem Home Fragrances

Finally after several months of research and planning we have released Esteem Home Fragrances. They are very highly scented candles that we have been working on for quite some time now. We are very excited to have them available in our store and on our website. There are 8 different fragrances available. We plan to slowly add to our fragrance line and if things go well we could even add reed diffusers and other home fragrance delivery methods soon. We played "chemist" for a while and finally figured out how to make a candle that has 22% fragrance oil, which is arguably the highest percentage of fragrance oil used in the industry. A lot of hard work and passion has gone into making these candles and we are very proud to offer them to our customers.

In addition, we have decided to donate a portion of the proceeds from the sale of Esteem Candles to Animal Rescue Charities. So keep in mind that your purchases will benefit our Animal Friends as well.
I have also added some other items to our website. So you should definitely take a look around to see what you think. http://www.gracesmoon.com/ .

Renovations at the Store ... Busy, Busy, Busy

If any of you came by the store over the past several days you found us closed for renovations. We were closed for 3 days in order to clean, paint and rearrange the store. We have only been open for 1 year but it was time to change the colors of the store and add some interest.

We painted the store a beautiful khaki color with light chocolate accents. We stenciled beautiful Fleur de Lis around the top above the crown moulding. We also refinished the Cash Wrap and Archway in a venitian plaster with an awesome antiqued brick red faux finish. It is an unbelievable transformation.

We did all of this work in 3 days with the help of some family and friends who were kind enough to lend their creativity and hard work to the process, and we can't say thank you enough.

If you live in the area, I encourage you to come by and see the finished product. If you are a website customer, just give me some time and I will have pictures on the site. Of course we are all very tired, but very pleased with the outcome.

By the Way, I will be pouring the very first "production" of Esteem Canldes on July 6. The time has almost come to present them at our store.

Candles Are Coming Soon . . .

Hello Everyone, I just wanted to post today to give you an update on our candle line. We have been testing and retesting to get the perfect fragrance line for our candles. We have finally poured our last test and we are ready to start production. The name of our candles are Esteem Home Fragrances. It just has a nice ring to it, don't you think? I will be posting soon with a list of fragrances that you can expect to see on our website soon.

As you very well may know, Esteem Home Fragrances is our new "additional" venture since Hurricane Katrina. In retrospect, I find it very interesting the way life changes because of such a horrible disaster. I can say with all honesty that the three of us would have never considered opening a home decor and gift shop pre-katrina and we certainly would have never considered a candle making venture.

I will be posting links soon to my other blog about Entrepreneurship. This blog is still under construction right now, but it will chronicle out journey as "forced" entrepreneurs in a post-katrina world. It should be quite interesting.