Wax; The Melting Co; January Pre-Order New to Me Vendor

 

Vendor; The Melting Co

Web; Home | TheMeltingCo.

Facebook; www.facebook.com/TMCWax/

Owner; Unsure

What I ordered

All Snap Bars

Scent; Winter Magnolia

Scent Description; Blooming Magnolia, Pine, Smooth Vanillas and Light Citrus Notes

Thoughts: The pine is dominant on cold, and I don't get magnolia or vanilla

Scent; Eucalyptus Rain

Scent Description; Relaxing eucalyptus with fresh water, ozone and hints of green

Thoughts: This really smells like it sounds like it should. It's very nice and I'm sure it will be the same on warm

Scent; Laroi

Scent Description: Fresh Clean Cotton blended with Blue and Pink Sugar

Thoughts: These smells amazing, you can literally pick out all the scents together in this

Scent; The Laundry Zone

Scent Description; A blend of Fresh, Clean Laundry

Thoughts: This reminds me of a shared laundry room, like a laundry mat where multiple people do their laundry with different soap, it smells so fresh and clean

Scent; Snowflakes and Cashmere

Scent Description; Cashmere Cream shimmering vanilla and sparkling clementine

Thoughts: The cashmere is dominant but man this is going to be amazing melting

Scent; The Sweetest Garden

Scent Description; Pink Chiffon, Peony Flowers and Cotton Candy

Thoughts: These smells really like on cold; I think it's going to be one of those really medium floral scents that you just can't get enough of

Scent; Apple Almond Blossom

Scent Description; A blend of Apples, Almonds and Sweet Honey with Soft Floral undertones

Thoughts: On cold I mainly get the honey almonds, but usually apple comes out as dominant, this will be an interesting scent once melted I think

Scent; Apple Gate

Scent Description; Juniper Berry, Forrest Woods, Fresh Apple and Ozone

Thoughts: This is an interesting blend, I'm not sure what stands out more and it will be a good one melting I think

Extra “Love” Received

Scent; Sunset

Scent Description; Unsure

Thoughts: These smells fruity, the scent wasn't on the scent list and I'm not in the group, so I have no idea what this is supposed to be

Scent; Paradise

Scent Description; Unsure

Thoughts: I can't place the scent, I'm not sure what it is.

Thoughts.

This is my first order from this vendor, I have melted before but my friend wanted to order and couldn't so I ordered and will split this with her.

This was a pre-order, and everything came on time. I didn't like that I got my tracking number and then it took another week before it actually shipped. I wish it would ship right after the tracking number goes out. I also don't like that I have to try and dig for scent descriptions. I love that there were two nice sized samples, but other than the scent name I have no idea what the description is and it's on the web site's scent list.

All in all, I am very happy with this order. Everything was packaged great and smells great. I can't wait to get melting on these

Kushner Kreations Valentine's Advent

 

Vendor; Kushner Kreations

Web; kushnerkreations.weebly.com

Facebook; www.facebook.com/groups/KushnerKreations

Owner; April Kushner

2022 Whole Lotta Love Valentine's Day Count Down

Price; $50

Day 1 February 1

Scent; I'm Sexy and I Gnome It

Scent Description: Freshly harvested blueberries, sweetly ripened raspberries, and juicy rich blackberries mingle with notes of fresh cream to create

Thoughts: This smelled so good! It was a very strong berry scent and I loved it!

Hit or Miss; Hit

Day 2 February 2

Scent; Love Gnome

Scent Description: Creamy, sweet caramel and butterscotch top notes followed by a touch of cinnamon with sweet gooey maple

Thoughts: This was a deep caramel scent that was so nice, and that cinnamon just lingered in the background so nicely

Hit or Miss; Hit

Day 3 February 3

Scent; Bad to the Gnome

Scent Description: Bright citrus, coconut, anise, jasmine, fresh air, and spicy vanilla

Thoughts: I got melon from this scent, maybe because my nose doesn't pick up citrus. I know my family said it smelled good, but I didn't smell anything

Hit or Miss; Hit for my family Miss for myself

Day 4 February 4

Scent; Hugs & Kisses; Also prize tart with a necklace

Scent Description; Fruity blend of cotton candy, lemon drops, caramel and raspberry jam on a dry down of musk's. ripe strawberries, white grapes, and bergamot; cascading into middle notes of pink grapefruit, orange zests, with a Chandon accord

Thoughts: This was really nice, it smelled super good and lasted awhile

Hit or Miss; Hit

Day 5 February 5

Scent; Kissed by a Gnome Shower Slushie

Scent Description; Delicious pink lady and green apple, melon and citrus with a slightly woody, sweet vanilla and musk background

Thoughts: I can't wait to use this; I love her shower slushies!

Day 6 February 6

Scent; Gnomeo & Juliet

Scent Description: The chewy candy Raspberry Fish we all love

Thoughts; Yes! Swedish Fish, love this one so much!

Hit or Miss; Hit

Day 7 February 7

Scent; Hanging with my Gnomies

Scent Description: Juicy blueberry with orange zests, butter cake, vanilla topped with almond crunch

Thoughts: This smelled really good, it was a creamy juicy blueberry scent

Hit or Miss; Hit

Day 8 February 8

What; Lip Gloss

Scent; Gnome's Arrow

Scent Description; Strawberry Sorbet

Thoughts: I won't be using this, however it's super cute!

Day 9 February 9

Scent; Love the Gnome You're With

Scent Description: Mango, Pineapple and coconut unfolding to reveal floral notes of hibiscus, rose and violet

Thoughts: This was very nice; I was afraid the pineapple would be too overpowering, but it wasn't

Hit or Miss; Hit

Day 10 February 10

Scent: To Gnome me is to love me

Scent Description; Blend of boysenberries, elderberries, strawberries, guava and pomegranate with soft vanilla background

Thoughts: This was amazing, this was Best Friends oil, but it was so strong!

Hit or Miss; Hit

Day 11 February 11

Scent: I love you like Gnome other

Scent Description; Fresh baked Danish, orange zests and the aroma of cinnamon and powdered sugar

Thoughts: This was an amazing bakery scent. I didn't get any orange; it was all cinnamon, and I was alright with that

Hit or Miss; Hit

Day 12 February 12

Scent: I love you, Gnome matter what

Scent Description: Pomegranate, strawberry hot cider spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves

Thoughts: The nutmeg and clove were dominant and strong in this scent; you did get hot cider then a hint of cinnamon. It was super strong

Hit or Miss; Hit

Day 13 February 13

Scent: Love Struck Gnome

Scent Description; Mango + Peach + Pineapple + Guava Zinfandel

Thoughts: This was super fruity! I didn't get the tartness of the pineapple

Hit or Miss; Hit

Day 14 February 14

Cuticle Oil

Scent; Be My Gnome

Thoughts: Honestly, I don't know how to use this or what to do with it. I'm sure it works great for whatever it's for lol

Movie; Eternals (2021) Caution; Spoiler Alert

 

Eternals

Came out; 2021

Time; 2 hour 36 minutes

Watched: Disney Plus

Rating; PG-13 for fantasy violence and action, some language and brief sexuality

IMDB Rating; 6.4/10

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring.

Gemma Chan as Sersi

Richard Madden as Ikaris

Angelina Jolie as Thena

Salma Hayek as Ajak

Kit Harington as Dane Whitman

Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo

Lia McHugh as Sprite

Brian Tyree Henry as Phastos

Lauren Ridloff as Makkari

Barry Keoghan as Druig

Ma Dong-Seok as Gilgamesh

Harish Patel as Karun

Bill Skarsgard as Kro

Haaz Kleiman as Ben

Story Line.

Following the events of Endgame, an unexpected tragedy forces the Eternals, ancient aliens who have been living on Earth in secret for thousands of years, out of the shadows to reunite against mankind's most ancient enemy, the Deviants.

Thoughts.

This movie never caught my attention, Angelina Jolie just didn't seem to fit the part. We watched the long preview on Disney Plus and it looked pretty good so we figured we'd watch it

The plot was not what I expected, the movie was way too long, there were so many different plots going on within the main plot.

I feel like it started off strong, then got weird, then was ok, then got weird again, ended good but then there was an odd actual ending where I was personally confused.

Not the best marvel movie at all, not even close and I like them all, I wouldn't even put this one in the same category, but that's just my opinion

CAUTION; Major Spoiler Alert

Plot Summary.

The movie opens up with a text scroll that explains a short history of celestials and eternals. The movie goes back and forth between past and present showing us all things the eternals participated in history, including helping them advance their technology to the point humans make the bomb that hit Hiroshima and the conquistador's conquest through America. As well as all the times they protected the world from the alien monster called the Deviants up until the 1500s as they thought they had killed the last of them.

Thena is the one that sparks them all to split by attacking the group but she doesn't kill anyone. The Prime Eternal, Ajak, offers to cure Thena's affliction at the cost of her memories to prevent more attacks but Gilgamesh steps in and says he'll watch over her. Druig ensues into a deep monologue about how he doesn't like standing on the side lines while humans slaughter each other, so he takes some of the nearby fighting humans and leaves. Gilgamesh and Thena go off and live in Australia together. Sprite and Sersi become companions during the time when Ikaris leaves Sersi. Sersi starts dating Dane Whitman and teaching at a primary school. Kingo travels the world and eventually becomes a popular Bollywood actor, even going as far as pretending to be his own descendants within a fake family so he can keep acting. Druig starts a colony in the Amazon. Phastos goes and lives his life by having a family, he has a husband and a son. Makkari has been living in their ship for centuries.

After the Deviants start attacking again Sersi, Ikaris, and Sprite go and try to find their leader Ajak who they find dead, attacked by a deviant which now has her powers of healing and later becomes Kro. Ajak has a orb in her chest that allowed her to talk to the Celestial who made them, when Sersi finds the body the orb goes into her allowing her to speak to the celestial that made them. The team then goes and collects Kingo while he's making a film. They use his private jet to travel most of the movie, his valet tagging along to record a "documentary". They travel to Australia to collect Gilgamesh and Thena. While there Sersi talks to the Celestial again using the orb. They then find out that the celestial sent the eternals to protect a seed that was planted inside the earth. The seed grows into another Celestial so long as the population grows. The Celestial made Deviants to kill predators on planets so that the intelligent population would thrive. But instead, they evolved and started hunting down everything. So, the Celestial made the Eternals kill the Deviants so the population may grow. Once the seed is done growing the emergence begins destroying the world creating a new Celestial after the complete destruction of said planet. The eternals minds are then erased and they are sent onto a new planet to destroy. Thena's memories weren't completely erased so that's why she's going crazy.

After learning this information, they go and try to convince Druig to help put the celestial to sleep. There is a fight scene with the Deviants, as Kro eats Gilgamesh then becomes more humanoid. After some convincing Druig says he can't do it alone, and needs a machine built by Phastos to even think about potentially doing that. So they all go collect Phastos, Phastos is not convinced by the other Eternals that his husband is the one that convinced him to help. They all go back to the main ship in the desert where Makkari is residing, they tell her what's going on. Phastos's big idea is to connect them all in a uni-mind state allowing Druig to control the Celestial. Ikaris finally breaks after people start taking sides, calling for him to help make a decision for the team. It flashes back and shows that he was the one that fed Ajax to Kro and the other deviants allowing them to evolve further. He's also known for a long time their true purpose, but when he found out Ajak didn't want to destroy planets anymore, he killed her. Ajak had decided to intervene with the emergence after she watched the avengers bring back everyone from Thanos's snap. The avengers bringing half the population back also sped up the emergence according to Ajak. The group then gets into a fight leading to Ikaris and Sprite leaving together. Kingo leaves too because he agrees with Ikaris but doesn't want to fight his friends. Thena convinces Sersi that what she's doing is right and that they need to save the planet.

After Sersi is convinced to continue their mission to save earth, Phastos takes the sphere that allows Sersi to talk to the celestials to create bracelets to connect the eternals. They then fly in their ship to the source of the emergence. Once they arrive, they connect to Druig in a attempt to control the celestial. Ikaris starts fighting the group, injuring druig so he's unable to complete his connection to the celestial. They then decide that it's best for sersi to use her powers to connect to the celestial to kill it. While the others in the group distract Ikaris, Kro comes in and starts a fight with Thena. Thena kills Kro and in doing so regains control of her memories. Phastos and Makkari are effective at holding their own against Ikaris, at one-point Phastos has Ikaris trapped and unable to use any of his powers using some kind of power dampening device he made in the moment. Sersi attempts to connect the celestial, but Sprite comes up and violently stabs her in the back with a knife. Druig then comes out of nowhere and knocks out Sprite with a rock. Sersi connects to the celestial and starts turning it into stone. Ikaris breaks free and tries to stop her but realizes he can't because he loves her. Sersi then reconnects to the celestial but this time with the help of the other eternals completely changing it into stone. Ikaris starts crying because he can't decide whether or not to continue fighting them or join them, after this is done ikaris flies off straight into the sun. Sersi uses what little power she has left from connecting to the celestial to make sprite a human. It doesn't state whether or not she kept her powers though. Druig, Thena, and Makkari go off in their ship to find more eternals.

Dane professes his love for Sersi and is about to reveal a secret about his family history when she, along with Phastos and Kingo, are remotely dragged into space by Arishem, who is displeased with their treason but elects to spare humanity if the Eternals' memories show that humans are worthy of living. He vows to return for judgment before disappearing into a singularity, taking the trio with him.

Mid-credit scene: Thena, Makkari and Druig are visited by the Eternal Eros (brother of Thanos) and his assistant Pip the Troll, who offer they're partnership.

Post-credit scene: Dane Whitman opens an old chest inherited from his ancestors that contains the legendary Ebony Blade when an unseen person (identified off screen as Blade) questions him whether he is ready for it.

Wax; Destination Wax; February 2022 Order

 

Vendor; Destination Wax

Web; destinationwax.com

Facebook; www.facebook.com/groups/DestinationWAX

Owner; Rebecca Harris

What I ordered

2 Snap Bars

Moonspice Coffee; Sugar Cookies, Coffee and Celtic Moonspice

Thoughts: I really like this scent. It's very unique to Destination Wax and besides her vanilla scents it's one of my favorites

2 Scent Shots

Lost Cherry Delight: Black Cherry, bitter almond, sweet marzipan, rose, jasmine and amber

Thoughts: These smells really good on cold, it's a new one to me and the cherry, almond and amber come out

Mahogany Apple; Apples & Cologne; Mahogany woods, golden delicious apple, pink peppercorn, lavender, BBW Type

Thoughts: These smells so much better than I thought it would! I ordered it because of the scent description not knowing that it was a dupe but I am glad I did

Goat Soap

Lavender; Twilight; Sweet Lavender, lilac, tonka bean and ylang ylang

Thoughts: My husband is always looking for a good soap, he has such funky skin especially because he works in construction so I'm hoping this one will work for him

Extra “Love” Received

Coffee; Epic Day; A blend of rich, dark coffee, cinnamon, clove and pink peppercorn

Wine Cellar; Pomegranate, black cherries, pink pepper, musk, saffron and patchouli BBW Type

Iced Vanilla Woods; Clean cologne Type, Lavender eventually mallowed by vanilla and warm woods

Thoughts.

This vendor is only open for a few days the first of the month. You've got to get in and get out before she closes. I always forget to order and miss it every time. February I finally got in and got some Moonspice Cookie. I didn't get a bunch just enough.

One thing, I hear people rumbling about pour dates. These were poured in December. What doesn't make sense to me is that this vendor only does a few openings and seems to pour right before and during, but yet these were poured 2 months ago?