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LuminEssent Candles Recycles and Gives to Charity

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Recycled Glass CandleBesides the recycled glass votive shown here LuminEssent Candles sells melts, tealights, pillars, jars, and travel tins.

LuminEssent Candles are environmentally-friendly and made from soy wax, which makes them burn longer and cleaner than paraffin.

Specialty Candles:

A portion of the profits from the sale of their “Shift Candles” will be donated to The International Documentary Association to help finish the film. “The Shift film raises awareness to the story of our roles in an evolutionary shift in our collective consciousness. As it chronicles the faces, the stories and leaders assisting in this social transformation, the film reveals its emergence & meaning.”

The Shift Candles are 12 tea lights that will burn up to 8 hours each. They’re scented with a blend of Ylang Ylang, Patchouli, Frankincense, Clary Sage, Sweet Orange and Thyme and made to promote a meditative state.

LuminEssent Candles also provides a portion of the profits from the sale of their Tree Candles to The Tree Canada Foundation, a charitable organization that improves our quality of life by planting trees. [tags]recycled glass,votive candles,improve environment,soy candles[/tags]

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Reflecting on the Past Year with Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

  • Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
  • NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
  • Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
  • The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]