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The FREE SHIPPING on Fragrance ends Tomorrow!! Make an order today.......

Have you heard the news??

Just making sure everyone is aware of our newest SALE. For one week only (September 11 - September 18th) we are offering FREE SHIPPING on all in stock fragrances!!!! We're hoping this helps our customers start stocking up on all of your fall fragrances for the season. Place your order today before we run out of your favorite fragrance!!!!

By the way if you weren't aware of our new sale it is because you are not on our newsletter email list. Please sign up(located on the home page of our website on the left side) today so you will be one of the first ones to receive all of our company information and sales!!!

Finally what you've all been asking for has arrived...well kind of!!

First let me say I have been a very bad blogger - but I'm officially rededicating myself to this blog. I think this is one of the best ways to let our customers know about new items, sales, or just overall important information.

So what have you all been asking for?? Shipping estimates online. Our website is now calculating your shipping when you place your order. However, we are very much in the testing phase on this. We are committed to reducing your shipping cost when possible - so we want to make sure our website is doing a good job. Please be patient with us while we continue our testing!!! If the shipping seems high please know that we will double check all shipping when we recieve the order - so if it needs to be adjusted we will do that for you. Hopefully, once we work out all the problems this will be very useful for all of our customers. We are all officially into the busy season - so please continue to stock your supplies! Nothing says Fall like a candle burning!!

For all you Tennessee People and those who are close by...

We will heading to Franklin Tennessee in a few weeks (May 17th) for the Tennessee Soap and Candle Social. We are very excited about this event and would love to see a lot of our customers while in the Nashville area. This looks like it will be a great conference to learn a lot of new techniques and to meet fellow candle and soap makers from around the south. If you are planning on attending the conference and would like to place an order in advance we'd be happy to deliver it to you while in Franklin. Just make sure when you call it in that you specify you would like it delivered to you at the candle/soap conference. We try not to confuse ourselves if possible:)

If you haven't been able to stop by our new facility as of yet...please come by! We love our new building and feel like we've moved into a palace! Come by and spend some time at our sniffing station - we're pretty sure you'll find something new and exciting for this spring and summer. We've enjoyed seeing many of you at various craft shows this spring and we hope to see many more of you over the next few weeks. I love Spring because of the beauty of the many flowers that appear but I'm also a huge fan of traveling to craft shows. The smell of funnel cakes in the air gets me every time!!

Coming soon more photos of our new place and also new fun recipes for soap and lotions - these items can be big sellers during the summer so make sure to check back!!! Happy week to you all...

We're Moving!!!!

We are so excited to be moving into a new warehouse/showroom facility. Alabaster Fragrance and Color will now be located back in Alabaster, Alabama - which is where we originally started 10 years ago. Our new facility is brand new. We will now have a big area for our showroom ... so in the near future we will be displaying all of our products and fragrances. Make sure when you pick up your next shipment you make time to shop and sniff in our display area.

We are very excited about this move - Alabaster intends to continue to grow and expand our supplies for our customers. We will be in our new building on Monday April 14th. We are located only 20 minutes North of our current location (Jemison) and 25 minutes south of downtown Birmingham. Our new address is:

245 Scottland Drive
Alabaster, AL 35007

Can't wait to see everyone at our new location!!!

Todd

Seasonal changes in our industry...

I think I can finally say Spring is Here!! I have been waiting for Spring…my favorite season of the year. In my front yard I have a huge cherry tree – when spring first starts appearing the tree magically over a few days brings about beautiful white blooms. When the wind blows it almost appears to be snowing in my yard because of all the blooms blowing in the wind. Here at Alabaster I also feel like we’re “changing seasons”... With the economy swaying, gas prices rising, and fear among us all with upcoming elections. Although I have to say I think we should all be thankful for a talent in the craft industry. When money is tight and gas is killing us at least we have an avenue of making extra money to help out. I’ve challenged many of my customers lately to put more energy into candles and bath and body. When people are stressed out around us provide them with a product that brings relief and happiness…a candle to make their home smell nice, bath fizzy to bring about relaxation, lotion to provide soothing relief to sun burned skin. It is time to concentrate on building your product line so you can make extra money for your family but also provide a service to stressed-out Americans. Here is one of my favorite quotes on business and I continually remind myself of this, “ Fear should not drive business decisions. Fear paralyzes process.” Don’t paralyze yourself by what is going on around us. Recognize that the candle business may not be recession proof but it provides a product that everyone sees as comforting. Keep pushing forward and let us help you anyway we can.

As a reminder we have great shipping rates due to our 2 locations (Alabama and Kentucky). We will determine the cheapest way to ship your products to you and we guarantee one day shipping if you order before noon.

Mother’s Day is coming up (May 11th)…Order your new Spring Fragrances Now!!!

Our customers are our top priority…please call or email us with any and all questions!! Happy Spring-
Todd

I'd like to start by saying...

For over a year now my wife has been begging me to start a blog for our customers. I really wanted too but I struggled with what to say in this blog...mainly because I want to make it relevant to all who read it. So finally I'm coming on board with my wife and we're going to start this blog together. We will both be posting here at least once a week. This blog will have upcoming news from Alabaster Fragrance and Color, inc. and it will also include relevant business issues for the candle/soap industry. Please bookmark this page and stop by frequently...we are hoping to build a big community of crafters who appreciate the art of what we do. The picture to the side is of our family (Jennifer, Sydney Kate, and Todd). Welcome to the family!