Thanksgiving and the Holidays will be here before you know it, and that means you’ll be entertaining and of course you’ll be paying particular attention to your home decor. With Scentsy Candles, you can reflect not only your personality and style, but the colors and scent of every  season as well.

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Each month I like to feature a work-at-home mompreneur and invite that person to Guest Post on Moomette’s Magnificents.  This month I’d like to feature Amy Bellgardt, who is well known throughout the blogosphere. Amy is now associated with the direct sales company, Scentsy – a wickless, smokeless, flameless and safe alternative candle product.

Scentsy Canada opened in October 2009 and I’d like to remind all of my Canadian readers that Canadian Residents and most Provinces are currently approved for joining Scentsy as a consultant.

If you’re looking for a WAHM career to supplement your family income, be certain to get in contact with Amy and let her know I scent you!

Amy, (who tweets as @MomSpark)  kindly scent me a fabulous full-size Boho Chic Warmer along with the NEW Gingersnap bar!to try out.  I know she must read my tweets during the evening, which is when I enjoy burning candles as I write.

I often burn candles in order to create a relaxed atmosphere after a stressful day. Burning candles bring out a feeling of peace and harmony.

Recently I adopted a baby stray Calico kitten who now fights for shares space with my 13-year old house cat.  I work until the wee hours of the morning, and am so tired that I often forget to extinguish the candle I would have burning. Now the Hubster doesn’t have to worry about me forgetting, or the kittys knocking it over because Scentsy warmer offers a safe way to enjoy fragrance, using a small 25watt light bulb to melt the wax slowly, while maximizing the fragrance time of the Scentsy Bar or Brick.  Replacement bulbs may be ordered through the Scentsy consultant.

To use the warmer, I broke the cube off of the packet and placed it in the warming dish.  There’s enough heat from the bulb to melt the wax.  The Gingersnap fragrance filled the whole downstairs of my house, and smells just like the real thing!

When the kids and grandkids come to visit, I have them fooled – they think I’ve been baking!  So sorry to disappoint …

It’s easy to change the fragrances, as you can either pour the melted wax back into it’s original packaging to reform, or you can let the wax solidify and then store in a cool place for later use.

Some of the new scents I can’t wait to try for fall are Baked Apple Pie, Cranberry Spice and  Autumn Sunset.  Magnificent!

During the Holiday Season, one of the best ways to express your love for your beloved ones is by giving gifts. Different gifts signify different things to different people. One of the best things to gift someone is by giving the person a candle gift basket. You can gift a candle gift basket to communicate different feelings. You can use it as a Hostess  gift basket, or perhaps a Wedding candle gift basket.

My charming son-in-law is from Vermont, and he and my daughter were married awhile ago in Stowe over Columbus Day Weekend.  I’m thinking that they would really enjoy the new Montpelier Warmer, adorned with Maple Leaves  and Maple Butter scent bar as an Anniversary gift, so reflective of fall in New England!

When you create a gift basket made of candles, you can also include non-candle gifts, such as a selection of favorite chocolates, or spa beauty items.

Amy is offering readers of Moomette’s Magnificents a Holiday Special Promotion of  a free Scentsy bar with any warmer purchase!  Just email her at momspark@gmail.com and she’ll fix you up.

Hello! I am a SAHM of two boys and a wife to an insanely handsome jingle writer. I started a blog, MomSpark.net, in 2008 as a way to connect with fellow moms who were experiencing the same joys and challenges of parenting. Mom Spark now consists of six writers and has a wide range of articles for moms that include recipes, product reviews, arts & crafts, travel, blogging advice, and an active community forum.

I also founded the successful MomMadeThat.com, an online listing registry for mom businesses, in an effort to promote moms with small home businesses. Mom Made That! currently has over 200 business listings and was just recently recommended by Etsy.com as an economical method of advertising.

I just recently launched my own media company, Mom Spark Media, which teaches mom bloggers how to further their blogging paths and offers unique opportunities to work with brands. I am also a new Scentsy consultant and I’m thrilled about this new adventure!

Please contact me if you have any questions whatsoever on browsing through our catalog or hosting your own party. I would love for you to join my team as well!

-Amy

For More Information Visit: Scentsy Candle

Moomette’s Magnificents is hosting a Giveaway Contest! For a chance to win, there will be one (1) winner of a a full size warmer and scent of the winner’s choice a $40 value.  Look around the site and see what you’d choose if you won!

*Open to USA and Canada Only

Please include a way of contacting you. Should you be the contest winner, this information may be shared with the contest sponsor in order to send your prize.

Main Rule:   (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)

a) Sign up for my free Newsletter Updates to my blog through my e-mail link and leave your name in a separate comment) AND

b) Visit Scentsy and leave a comment about another fact that wasn’t mentioned in this post.

~ One Extra Entry: Sign up for the Scentsy Newsletter Updates and leave a separate comment saying you did (will be verified)

~ One Extra Entry: Click the “Like” button on this post (top or bottom) and leave and leave your name in a separate comment

~ One Extra Entry: Become a Moomette’s Magnificents Facebook Fan and leave a comment on our wall with your thoughts on this giveaway.

~ One Extra Entry: Follow and Rank Moomette’s Magnificents on Networked Blogs (right sidebar) and leave your name in a separate comment.

~ One Extra Entry: Follow my blog publicly on Google Friend Connect (sidebar)

~ One Extra Entry: Visit my 101 Random Things About Me page (under About) and leave a comment – something About Me, 101 Random Things About Me

~One Extra Entry: Follow me @Moomettes and Tweet this giveaway and post the link in your comment-  (50 Followers minimum to qualify for extra entry)

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#WIN a Scentsy Candle Warmer from @Moomettes #Giveaway http://clicky.me/2BMC

This contest will run until October 20, 2010 at 11:00 pm. EST

For Additional Entries, check out my Contest Entry Rules.

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Wild turkeys are making a comeback in parts of New England. These wild turkeys were frequent daily visitors in my BFF’s backyard and front yard in Canaan, New Hampshire!

It was so nice to wake up every morning and see nature outside rather than a neighbor’s house!

Safe Travels to all and Happy Thanksgiving!

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Comfort Food

Everybody has a fondness for a favorite comfort food – and mine happens to be popcorn.

When I was a kid, my mom would pop corn in a pot with some oil in it on the stove.  As the years progressed, they came out with those self-popcorn tin pans that would expand as the corn popped.

When my husband and I were dating some 35+ years ago, we’d go to the movies Friday and Saturday nights.  Of course, I always got one of those big buttered tubs of popcorn.

More years passed, and air popcorn poppers came along after I was married.  Now you can pop corn in a microwave!

I recently had the opportunity to review Falling Leaves tin of popcorn from The Popcorn Factory!

Talk about gourmet popcorn!  Not only was the tin a gorgeous reusable fall design, it contained three different types of popcorn – delicious Butter, Cheddar and Carmel.

My husband is self-employed and this would be the perfect holiday gift for him to send to his customers.

The Popcorn Factory offers gift ideas for all types of celebrations – Birthdays, Congratulations, Corporate gifts, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Thank You, Thinking of You, Get Well and Encouragement.

Selections include:

• Popcorn Tins

• Samplers

• Towers

• Baskets

• Personalized Gifts

• Popcorn Balls

• Chef Inspired

• Pick-a-Filling Popcorn

• Individual Flavors

• Chef-Inspired Collection

• Flavor of the Month

• Popcorn Balls

• Refills

• Sports Tins

• Puzzle Collection

The Popcorn Factory offers a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee on all purchases, and their product is Kosher OUD as well.

We stand behind every delicious gift we sell. You and your gift recipients must be absolutely delighted–we guarantee it!

. . . Any popcorn or edible gifts purchased from The Popcorn Factory website are guaranteed to be fresh – and that’s the Popcorn Promise: both you and your recipient must be 100% satisfied.

A selection from The Popcorn Factory would be a special item to send to a student away at college during mid-term exams,  for a corporate holiday gift, or unique gift for someone.

Check out the 30 Gift Give Away Sweepstakes!

For More Information Visit: The Popcorn Factory

Moomette’s Magnificents  is hosting a Giveaway Contest! For a chance to win, there will be one (1) winner of a tin of popcorn from The Popcorn Factory.

Please include a way of contacting you. Should you be the contest winner, this information may be shared with the contest sponsor in order to send your prize.

Main Rule:   (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)
a) Sign up for my free Newsletter Updates to my blog through my e-mail Feedblitz link (on the top of my right column or let me know if you already are, in a separate comment) AND

b) Visit The Popcorn Factory and leave a comment about what you like best about their site and another product you’d like to try.

This contest will run until November 29, 2009 at 11:00 pm. EST

For Additional Entries, check out my Contest Entry Rules.

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Happy Thanksgiving from New England, home to Plimoth Plantation,  to all my readers and your families~ We’ll be spending the holiday with all of our extended family.

I’d like to extend my thanks to those who serve our country to keep us safe, and to the law enforcement officers who’ll be out on the road today.

Please drive safely ~ here’s some travel tips to help if you’ll be traveling over the river and through the woods to Grandmother’s or elsewhere with babies, toddlers or tots today!

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For the last two Tuesday nights at 9:00 pm. Eastern Time, I’ve been participating in Girl’s Night Out on Twitter over at Mommy Gossip.  You can do a Twitter Search using #GNO to see all the posts.

It’s so much fun and I’ve met some terrific new Twitter friends and connected with current friends.

The topic this past Tuesday night was Holiday Dishes and Drinks.  There’s some wonderful new recipes posted that I’m going to be trying.  I had several requests for my Bacon Cheese Roll Up Appetizer and Chocolate Mini Marshmallow Velvet Fudge recipe (my Mom’s, and my favorite when I was a kid) that Mommy Gossip was kind enough to feature this week after the event.

GNO is also sponsoring a Virtual Food Drive ~ GNO Gives Back.

Please join me in supporting this worthwhile cause so all American families in need can indeed, have a Happy Thanksgiving.

Visit Mommy Gossip~Cares at http://mommygossip-cares.blogspot.com/ for more information.

Follow me on Twitter on Tuesday November 18 for discussions on Charities we love and how we We Can give back.

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For the first time since she was born, my oldest DD will be spending Thanksgiving away ~ with her husband’s family out-of-state, and bringing little Moomette with them. They’ve decided to alternate Thanksgiving and Christmas…which, I understand, is only fair..inasmuch as they live close by us.

But I have other Thanksgivings to look forward to as Moomette gets older, and hopefully she’ll be ‘helping me’ in the Kitchen.

Here’s a delightful article from a member of SMARTMOMS~SMARTBUSINESS that I thought would be perfect to share with other Moms, or Grandmoms~! Happy Thanksgiving!

Cooking With Your Kids This Thanksgiving
by Peg Baron

Thanksgiving can be a little stressful when you have company coming and you have to cook the whole meal. Sure the company is bringing a pie and will help with the dishes and clean up, but you’ve got a whole lot of work ahead of you when you wake up on that special Thursday morning. Don’t despair and stress – rally the troops!

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably got one or two or more children running around that house don’t you? Put them to work and give them all jobs. Just don’t mention the words “work” or “job”. Kids like to be helpful, especially when they see how much you appreciate it. Let them help!

First off, you need to have a plan. Take some time before Thursday morning to plot everything out. Of course you know what you want to prepare and serve – you do the same thing every year, don’t you? So that’s the easy part. Really look at each recipe and see what’s involved. You could probably do it in your sleep, but your kids can’t. Assign a recipe to each child, depending on their skill level. You may even want to find an easier version of the recipe. Go over the steps with your child and explain how it’s all going to work. Do kind of a foodless dress rehearsal with them.

If the child is too young to do a whole recipe, just give them certain tasks in a recipe and have them help you. Little ones can melt butter in the microwave, mash the potatoes, wash the vegetables, toss the salad, and put the marshmallows on the sweet potato casserole.

This is one meal where everything seems to happen at the same time. To help prevent this, the kids can mash the potatoes ahead and keep them warm in the crockpot, ditto with the sweet potato casserole and veggies. If you don’t have a way to keep them warm, time them to come out before the mad rush, put a lid on them and wrap them in several towels. They can stay quite warm that way. The salad can definitely be made earlier in the day or even the night before.

Try to schedule the prep time so there aren’t too many people walking around the kitchen with sharp knives at once.

What about the pies? Kids love to make the pies! Go with the pre-made pie crusts if their pastry skills aren’t quite up to snuff. Maybe they could pick the pies they want this year and shake tradition up a bit. I’m sure a Chocolate Dream pie is a tradition in someone’s home even if it isn’t (yet) in yours.

Keep one step ahead of total chaos by having someone wash the dirty dishes that are accumulating. Perhaps those who are watching football on TV could lend a hand! Not only will there be fewer dishes to do at the end, but it leaves lots more room for the cooks to prepare the grand feast.

If you give it some thought and plan ahead of time, this Thanksgiving could be a lot easier on you and a heck of a lot more fun for the whole family. Have a good attitude and lots of patience and just enjoy yourself. Your kitchen will be filled with those you love, and that’s something to be thankful for.
Peggy is the editor of the popular Cookin’ Kids Newsletter. Interesting themes, fun facts, silly clip art, easy recipes, kid jokes, cooking terms, and safety tips make this newsletter a hit with kids! Learn more about it at
CookingKids Newsletter

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