Pfffttttt Easy Peasy ......

How do we create one of our bespoke Vintage Mason Jar Soy Candles? That is a question we have been asked many a time so we thought we might take you on the creation journey .........

Ok so let us begin ........

First of all we have to find the vintage Jars. Now you may think to yourself ...........

 "Pffftttt easy peasy"

It is NOT easy peasy. It has, in fact, taken a couple of years to establish a small number of suppliers who we have grown to trust in the US.

Image by FS Vintage

So ~ once we have sorted what sort of jars we would like ~ Wire Bale or Vintage Quarts or a mix of both ~ we then have to pay for said Jars and have them shipped to us here in Australia. We are now experienced enough that we do know how many we can pack in an average parcel and how much the best postage rate is and so on.
(We also stick to the Blues so we can say they are definitely Pre 1937. We always include a sheet to help you date your Jar but we have told you before the reason the Jars are Blue up till 1937 is because of the sand they used in the process from around Lake Michigan. After 1937 they stopped using that sand.)
Once they arrive ~ (we have only ever had one breakage and that was a glass lid for a vintage wire bale ) ~ we unpack and begin the prep work needed to create your bespoke Fabulous soy candle.

©Ball Mason Vintage Jar by FS Vintage

First of all each and every one is inspected to make sure there are no hairline fractures, small cracks or anything that would affect the integrity of the Jar.
The Jars are generally clean but we need them insane super clean before we can begin to create our Soy Candles. So ~ Into the trusty dishwasher they go ~ yep ~ the dishwasher to ensure they are sparkly and ready to begin. They are then inspected AGAIN to see if we missed anything in the first run. We usually take them outside to inspect them in sunlight so we absolutely do NOT miss anything.

Once we have them clean & are certain they are in top condition ~they are then wicked up and prepped ready to pour with natural Soy wax mixed with one of our scrumptious and tantalizing frangrances. Which leads us to ......

Vintage ©Ball Mason Empty Pint & Quart Image by FS Vintage

Triple Scented Candles.

This is very interesting. When a Candle Maker is saying they create Triple Scented Candles .... they actually do. There is a MAXIMUM fragrance load you can use when creating Soy Candles and to exceed that is basically looking for trouble in so far as catching fire or not burning correctly and a myriad of other issues. We wont go into the boring details, or rabbit on about Paraffin Wax but suffice to say ~Yes indeed there are Triple Scented Candles ~ that is 3 times more than their normal load which would have to be around 3%. We simply cut out all that and use the maximum allowable safe fragrance load so maybe we could say ours are Triple Scented Plus A Little Bit Extra?

Anyway ~ boring boring boring. All you care about is that your candle burns beautifully, smells Fabulous and lasts all the way to the bottom of the jar ....

Ours do.

Vintage ©Ball Mason Quarts Image by FS Vintage

So after we have poured the Candle we leave it for about 24 hours to set and then we package. We also include with our Vintage Quarts ~ a Wick Trimmer as part of the packaging. We do this because we figure if we are going to ask you to pay for one of our Quart Vintage Mason Jar Soy Candles then we should make sure you care for it correctly so you ~ as our Fabulous customer ~ receive the best you can.

Vintage ©Ball Mason Quart Packaged with Wick Trimmer By FS Vintage

Vintage ©Ball Mason Quart Soy Candle By FS Vintage

Jars available at Vintage Roses & Things Wellington Point QLD.

Your Beautiful Jar is now ready to go to your home and add to your collection. Our Quarts are Priced at $100.00 and are available at:

Our Website
Our Shop Located at 46 Ballynde Street Bracken Ridge QLD 4017
Vintage Roses & Things

Hope you enjoyed learning a little about the process involved in creating your Bespoke FS Vintage Soy Candle

Stay Fabulous


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Better Late than never?

Yeah Yeah ~ we have not posted in a while . Think of it as a reprieve from reading our ramblings? It has been INSANE busy with the arrival of the Fabulous & Seriously amazing Heritage Green Jars.
We managed to bring them in to Australia ahead of the pack ... so to speak ......  and you wanted them NOW! This meant late nights and loads of packing and packaging to get those parcels out in the mail ... PRONTO!
Only a few left as they are as popular as the 2013 part of this series of jars ..... The Heritage Blues. 

Heritage Spring Green ©Ball Mason Jar available at FS Vintage

*serene smile replacing nervous twitch*

We did it!

Heritage Spring Green ©Ball Mason Quart available at FS Vintage

We kinda like this picture depicting the ©Ball Mason Pints from early 1900's through to today with the Heritage Greens.

 

Selection of ©Ball Mason Jars through the years available at FS Vintage

In between all of the packages and parcels and general mayhem we had a delivery of some of the best Wire Bale Vintage Jars we have seen in awhile.  Brilliant condition and ready to go to new homes with serious collectors and lovers of ©Ball Mason Vintage Jars. We only have a couple left as they do tend to sell out pretty quickly!

Wire Bale Vintage Quart available at FS Vintage

Plus the website extraordinaire has absolutely CONSUMED every waking moment. From thinking about what sort of products with photographs to put up ........ down to taking said photographs and making sure they look reasonably eye catching so we can engage you when you visit FS Vintage
Which products do we select to put on the site?
What do you want to see?
We have such a wonderful collection of both Soy Candles & Homewares here in store, it is very hard to select the ones we THINK you might like to look at and yes indeedy ... purchase.

Jar Lid to match our Soap Dispensers in a range of colors at FS Vintage

One of the many products available at FS Vintage

Remember this is the first time we have attempted anything like a website and it is fair to say...........

It has been incredible!

First of all we had no idea we COULD do something like this and second? .........
We had no idea it would be so bloody hard!

Heartfelt kudos to Graphic Designers everywhere because we honestly would not have the patience to do this for a living.

But we did it!

Many, many late nights and long days but we are pretty pleased with what we have achieved. We listen to every single scrap of feedback we receive and  tweak it every day.
This week we decided  to put in a little story about the Shop downstairs.

Basically we turned this ..........

FS Vintage   ~ Downstairs leading to Front Door ~ Before ........

 and this ..........

FS Vintage ~ Before

Into ..........

FS Vintage ~ After

 and this ........

FS Vintage ~ After leading to work area & Guest Room

All in all a pretty darn productive week or so. A little treat was finding another set of Vintage Shoe lasts to go near the entrance to our little shop.

Vintage Shoe Lasts

Finally ~ at the end of what seemed like a month ....... preparations for the Fabulous Faburary Girls Only Weekend all started to come together. Did I tell you about that?

A group of nutty, zany girls are all meeting here to spend time just chillaxing and enjoying each others company.

T Shirts to prove it!

Sound like fun?


Oh yeah .......


Now to tackle the Garage and Storage area .........

Stay Fabulous

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Seriously Fabulous? Oh Yeah!

Once again we are insane pumped to advise we HAVE the ©Ball Mason Limited Edition Heritage Spring Green Jars. They are here ~they have been photographed and we are uploading them at the moment to our website FS Vintage

You do not want to read my rabbiting on so lets get busy and show you some pics

Yes?

©Ball Mason Heritage Spring Green Jar

Available at www.fsvintage.com ©Ball Mason Heritage Spring Green Jar

©Ball Mason Heritage Spring Green Jar at www.fsvintage.com

©Ball Mason Heritage Spring Green Jar at www.fsvintage.com

©Ball Mason Heritage Spring Green Jar at www.fsvintage.com

©Ball Mason Heritage Spring Green Jar at www.fsvintage.com

©Ball Mason Limited Edition Jar with Stainless Steel Soap Dispenser at www,fsvintage.com

Stay Fabulous

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©Ball Heritage Green Limited Edition Jars

Oh yeah!

We have them! Yep you read that correctly ~ we have them. Ok a very small batch and after a few in store sales we have 12 left but hey WE HAVE THEM!

A few pics to get us started. These Jars are NOT available in stores in Australia. However we do have them at FS Vintage and want to say a HUGE MASSIVE love & thankyou to our special supplier.

©Ball 2014 Heritage Green Jars

©Ball Heritage Green Jars available at FS Vintage

Ball Heritage Green Jar available now at FS Vintage

©Ball Heritage Green Jar available at FS Vintage

©Ball Heritage Jar available at FS Vintage

Oh yeah

Are you excited?

I know we are!

Stay Fabulous

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Oh YEAH

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh YEAH!

Houston we have LIFT OFF! So this morning we go to our FS Vintage website to have probably the zillionth look to see if maybe overnight the Fairies have fixed the Cart and the Buttons and what do you think we find?

IT WORKS!!!

I actually stood up and pushed the chair back and then did a happy groovy dance all over the study loudly fist pumping and then collapsed in a heap on the floor. Bloody hell people ~I am actually embarressed to admit I spent literally weeks working on this so I obviously must NOT be the sharpest tool in the shed! Mr Fab did an Ipad check this morning using all the relevant buttons and the Cart to make sure everything is running tickatyboo .... and it is ... so far.

I just COULD NOT seem to grasp what was needed and I am still at a loss as to what to write for the Terms section and the FAQ section. ANY help or suggestions would be gratefully and lovingly accepted I can assure you!

Vintage Empty Pint & Quart available now at FS Vintage

I have started the long and arduous process of loading the products into the various sections so please just keep popping back as I add all the wonderful things we have available in our Shop. Thankyou to everyone for your feedback as basically we wanted a site that would catch your eye .... make you WANT to buy one of our products AND have you come back and see us again and again AND again. We hope we have succeeded.

Pop over for a look at the FS Vintage website

Let us know what you think .....

Stay Fabulous

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www.bloodywelloverit.com.au

Bloody hell people what a week! I have been working non stop on this blasted blasted website. We initially had spoken to an amazing Designer who was full or ideas and enthusiasm but it came down to those things we live with everyday ....

Choices.

We had to make a choice between
A: Sourcing and importing a small batch of the New Heritage Green ©Ball Mason Jars
OR
B: Website.
So ~Jars are on the way with tracking ~yes indeedy you read that correctly ~WITH tracking and I am left pulling out my hair on an hourly basis.

Heritage Green Jar ~Image via ©Ball

We don't want "just"a website. We want something that is simple to use and easy to navigate so I have Googled and cut and pasted and SAVED SAVED SAVED probably what feels like a million tiny pieces of data and I think we are almost there.
Mr Fab has not been home this week so I have been shrieking EUREKA and doing the "Managed to Save it and Not Have it Disappear" dance with Dexter. He just looks at me and cocks his head to the side as I yell out that I have managed to put a page in correctly. I lost count of how many times I have sat smirking at something which I have finished after hours of work only to have it literally disappear as I go to Preview...

"Really? You managed to do that huh?"

*Blink*

Pretty sure I will never be a designer in another life ......


I will admit though ~and those that know me will agree I am sure ~I think being an insane perfectionist does have it's drawbacks. I simply refuse to accept it or release it till it is Fabulous.

So stay tuned Fabsters. This week has lead to a very small batch of both Pints & Quart Limited Edition Green Spring Jars making their way to us from the US which means ~ just like the Heritage Blues we will be among the VERY FIRST to have them in Australia!!!! (How insane fabulous cool is that??????)...............AND almost finishing our website so you will be able to purchase your Fabulous Products just a little more easily. You can of course purchase from our Etsy Store or by simply contacting us via our Facebook Page


Stay Fabulous

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NEW ©Ball GREEN Perfection Heritage Canning Jar ~ Oh yeah!

There are COMING! They are on their WAY! How excited are we???? Last year saw the release of the Limited Edition Blue Heritage Jar as part of the 100 year Celebration of ©Ball Canning Jars. This year in 2014 the New Green Heritage Perfection Jar will be released in March!

Heritage Blue Limited Edition Jar

There was an absolute FRENZY with the Heritage Blue Jars so we thought ~ Lets try and get some in nice and early BEFORE they hit the Stores. Of course we have signed up for the Australian Pre Orders and  are also importing our first batch from the US as we did last year, but we wanted to try and give our Fabulous customers just a little bit of an edge.

We began hunting down where we could source just a small lot of maybe 2 dozen to get us started.
And we did! Many emails and contacting various companies led us to finally managing to grab just 4 boxes of each in Pint and Quart!
So stay tuned Fabsters ..... as soon as these babies hit our Shop they will be cleaned, photographed and popped onto FS Vintage for sale!

Image via ©Ball

Just the Quarts for starters and the Pints will be arriving sometime in February. We try to be your Go To Aussie Mason People and fingers crossed ......

We dont let you down!

We also offer you options for using your jar with a Fabulous selection of Stainless Steel Soap Dispenser Pumps with purpose made lids. Recently we found a terrific range of funky and retro colors to help make your home even more Fabulous!

Standard Soap Dispenser Pump

Fab new colors coming soon

These amazing Jars are so versatile you can pretty much use them for anything ......

Flower Frog on Heritage Blue Jar

Heritage Blue as a Bevvy Jar

All existing Stock is available to purchase by contacting us via our Facebook page, Our Etsy Store and our soon to be launched Online store.

So stay tuned and

Stay Fabulous

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Wowsers what a week!

Wowsers! What a huge and interesting week! So where to begin?

I got it into my head that we had to have a website and nothing was going to stand in our way! Contacted a few designers because quite frankly I suck at computer stuff. Our quote was very good but untill fs vintage is back on her feet .... well you know how it goes.

I am pretty much at the stage where I could toss the computer and all who are using it ..... out the window.
In the meantime we were running some fab competitions to try and get some more interest going in our little Shop and business!

Soap Dispenser available now at FS Vintage

The competition was amazing and we had an absolute ball doing it! Mr Fab takes the whole thing very seriously and drew the winner with suitable aplomb and ceremony!  The Comp brought new and frenzied interest in our Soap Dispensers so we would like to let you know ~ You can purchase our unique Soap Dispensers from either our Etsy Store /  FaceBook Soap Dispenser Album or simply use the Shop Tab at the top of our Blog. We started selling these about 18? months ago when we became tired of constantly having to replace the plastic pumps. Our dispensers were sourced from the US and are stainless steel 2 cc pumps which are built to last. Remember our dispensers and new lids will fit any regular mouth mason jar.

We have recently ordered some funky and different color jar lids to compliment our existing range so you can now create a perfect matched set!

We then decided to do another mini comp using one of the New Product Lines we have ~Hand Made Soaps from Vintage Roses & Things located in Wellington Point Brisbane.

Mulled Red Wine Hand Made Soap

These products are seriously fabulous and we cannot begin to tell you how thrilled we are to be the exclusive Northside stockist! I have also been running some tests on the Facial scrub and Ball soap. Well Facial Scrub for me and Ball Soap for Mr Fab.

So how bout some conclusions?

Ball Soap in Lemon Mytle: As Tested by Mr Fab ~Conclusion? Seriously good ... his words ~ Seriously good. He said the fragrance was subtle enough he didnt feel like he was having a girly shower ..... but strong enough that he felt refreshed and cleansed!

Lemon Mrytle hand made soap Ball

Facial Scrub & Clay Mask:

Facial Scrub

Clay Mask

I really enjoyed using both these products and because I am always honest with you ~I also used the facial scrub to slough ~ ( I adore that word ~ slough ) ~ as usual where was I? Yes ~I used the scrub to remove all the dead skin from my hands. *Dreamy sigh* It was perfectly fabulous. Not only was I cleaning my face? I was making my hands feel just a little better. There was a delicious creamy sensation to both my face and hands on completion. Ok ok I admit ~ I am incredibly LAZY when it comes to doing the whole face thing as I figure I am old why bother? I do bother though and this made the whole process simple! I love how EASY it was. Wet my face then have a gently scrub with this product to create  smooth and clean skin.

The same went with the Clay Mask. Simply moisten my face then rub this on. I left it for probably longer than normal as I became sidetracked ~there's a shocker huh? 

Again the results were smooth creamy skin that felt fresh and CLEAN!

Now it is back to this blasted website for me! Keep an eye out for the New Heritage Green ©Ball Jar which we have managed to source BEFORE they come to Australia. We had confirmation this morning they had left ©Ball and will soon be sailing across that beautiful big blue ocean right to our door! There will be no pre orders on this batch as we have only managed to secure about 20 but do not worry people .... our Pre Order is sorted and we will have them in late March.

Stay Fabulous

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Vintage Mason Soy Candles

Fabulous Feature ~ Vintage Pint Mason

Vintage Pint Mason Jar

We have decided to do a weekly Product Feature where we will showcase one of our amazing products and tell you a little bit about it.

Sound good?

To get things rolling ~ how bout we do our signature Jar ~The Vintage Pint Mason.

It all started about 3 years ago. We had been making Soy Candles for a few years and had become tired of the same old thing. So ~ started looking around for something different. Noticed these on Etsy and noticed that they were not readily available here in Australia. Brought in our first batch and began testing. Made some interesting discoveries as to which sort of Vintage Jars we could use ~ some became far to hot when burning ~ and decided to take a leap of faith and bring in our first major order of genuine vintage jars.
Bloody scary I can tell you!!! What if people dont like them? Oh NO ~ what if we have wasted months of research and money?

Wouldn't be a leap of faith if you didn't jump now would it?

Ok let us begin:
First thing we do is source the jars from the USA. We look for Vintage Jars in excellent condition and try and get as many as we can in one hit.

Kate Redmond Photography

Empty Vintage Pint ~ Photography by Kate Redmond Photography

After we unpack the parcel ~ usually singing loudly and making loads of oooohhhh ahhhhhhhhh wooooowwwwww noises we make sure each jar is perfect. They then go into our trusty dishwasher for another clean ~ generally we let them go round twice.
After they are thoroughly cleaned we again inspect each jar to ensure it will become the Perfect FS Vintage soy candle.
The candlemaking process is then begun with each and every Vintage jar done individually to ensure it is absolutely seriously Fabulous.

We wait 24 hours ~ to ensure a perfectly set product ~ then begin the packaging part of one of our Jars. Don't get me wrong ~ the same attention to detail is used with every single product we make ~ The Vintage Jars are just so beautiful to use and make the most amazing candle ~ well we just love making them!

We do have stock in our Shop and we do make these to order. You can choose from one of our tested and true fragrances and have a little bit of history in your home.......

Stay Fabulous

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