I did something I don’t usually get to do often, except at Christmas and Halloween: I went candle shopping. This time of year, we tend to use candles to scent the house because they also give off heat, so it’s a pretty good way to deodorise the house and keep it warm without resorting to cranking the heat up. The place I love to shop at is Yankee Candle. I love their Christmas and Halloween candles. This year they have a new scent, All Hallow’s Eve, which is a swirl of their Midnight Jasmine and Evening Air. I had a card to buy one get one free, so I picked out that one and the WItches’ Brew, which I discovered as Purr-Chouli a couple of years ago through Matt. Matt got me into Yankee Candles. He gave me several Purr-Chouli sample candles as a present for taking him to a local curiosity shop to buy a new…well, I won’t air his laundry on my blog. He reads this!

The candles have wiggle pictures on the front. I was looking for some Candy Corn scented candles, and I brought my poor husband along to watch Chloe since we were coming home from picking her up from school. All was quiet in the candle shop, except for a softly playing song on the radio. Chloe was digging through some small candles on the floor. I had read a text from Matt telling me to go ahead and buy the All Hallow’s Eve candle, and I was sniffing it, when all of a sudden Dennis sneezed so loudly in there, it echoed off the walls! One of the employees was decorating a Thanksgiving/Fall display, and dropped her cardboard cut out, and I nearly dropped the candle in the glass jar I had! It was as if time stopped in there. Dennis gave a small grin, sniffed loudly, and said, “I think I’ll go wait in the car.” before hurrying out of the store. Chloe just looked at me, as if I was the one who had interrupted the world with that sneeze!