The BLC Blog

Thanks to Purely Delicious for the great mention in their most recent issue! Check it out below…

Taking pictures of our candles is not the easiest task in the world. Just ask Holly and her helper. They’ve been hard at work the past several weeks trying to get the ‘perfect’ picture of our candles in a setting. Here’s an example of what they’ve been able to accomplish!

Because of the way our candles glow, they are not easily photographed in normal lighting. In other words, you either have to sacrifice the design (shoot it without the flash) or the glow (shoot it with the flash and other background lighting). It takes a keen eye and a great deal of practice to be able to get the glow of the candle coupled with the color of the design on it.

We think they’re doing a great job but we are always welcoming suggestions. If anyone has any experience photographing glowing (literally) objects and they have secrets as to how to keep detail, please let us know!

Holly Eve, with great gratitude, recently offered Mayo Clinic employees, friends and family a discount code, mayo10. Very simply any item ordered with this code will result in a ten percent discount for any user of the code and a similar amount will be allocated and sent to Mayo’s financial donor program completely under the rules they specify for any cash donors.Holly is doing this independently of Mayo Clinic and infers in no way a relationship with this incredible health system.

Holly’s reasons are personal. She is married to a man whose been on disability since 2000 and who’s quality of life was seriously questionable as recently as May of 2009. Three visits to Mayo Clinic gave him an incredible new lease on life, not a cure due to the incurable nature his particular health situation, but a much brighter prospect for a much higher quality of life. He is proof positive that Mayo works constantly and almost exclusively with one simple thing in mind, what is in the best interest of the patient.With Mayo, this is a statement more than it is a question.

She and her husband know this first hand, upfront and personal.

It is with deep appreciation that Holly offers this discount to anyone interested in purchasing a gift or candle that gives back, to Mayo Clinic for changing her husband’s life.

Big. Fat. Dots.

Make no mistake about our latest design, Fat Dots came out in a BIG way! They are the final addition to our 2009 ‘holiday’ collection, and are currently available in silver and gold – but expect many more colors to follow.

Like the rest of our 6″ candles, Fat Dots retails for $34.00 and will burn over 90 hours with proper care. Fat Dots are a GREAT addition to a holiday themed dining room setting because of their classic design and unscented nature, and make for perfect house-warming holiday gifts.

Yes its that time of year again, when all of us in Michigan wish we were headed to Florida for some fun, some sun, and some R&R at our favorite seaside watering hole. Alas, it won’t be long till’ the skies are continually gray and those joyous little white precipitous dots begin falling from the sky.

Fortunately, black & light co. has figured out a way to bring a little warmth to oncoming winter. We would like to introduce our newest candle, ‘Flurry,’ a 6″ engraved pillar that has captured some of those frozen ice crystals on its surface. Available only at www.blackandlightco.com this holiday season, we hope Flurry will bring a much needed warmth to your home on many a blistery winters eve!

Our newest ‘Holiday’ themed candle, Holly is sure to fit a variety of interior motifs. Whether an accent to an end table, or the centerpiece of your holiday feast – our newest candle is sure to make your room glow for hours on end.

Holly is our first hand-painted candle, and will burn for over 60 hours with proper care. The Holly candle retails for $28.00 and is available exclusively at our online retail store. Click here to see our newest candles or click on the image above!

We have just added THREE new Inspirational candles to our collection. ‘joy,’ ‘dream,’ and ‘believe’ are the newest additions to our family of 4″ classic white pillars and are sure to be a glowing success.

The entire Inspirational collection is available now! And don’t forget – we are also donating a percentage from the sale of each inspirational candle to Airline Ambassadors International. AAI helps children from impoverished communities across the globe. We feel that the words on our candles perfectly symbolize what the caring folks at AAI are trying to accomplish every day.