Wax: MK's Body Sweets September Order

 Vendor; MK's Body Sweets and Scented Treats

Web; http://marykarolsbodysweets.storenvy.com/

Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/marykarolsbodysweets

Owner; Mary Karol

Geometric Snap Bar
Scent; Caramel Pumpkin Marshmallow Cookie

Kitty Face Melts
Scent: Tag You're It

Scent Description: chocolate chip cookies, vanilla bean, coconut

Bunny Single
Scent: April Showers

Scent Description: downy April fresh type, clean cotton, crystal blue waters

Scent Shot
Scent: Strawberry Pound Cake/Marshmallow Fluff

2pk hearts
Scent: Sweet Lavender Vanilla

17 Ounce Try Everything Mystery

Scent: Sweet Apple + Pumpkin

Scent: Rose Petal Gelato Palo Santo Vanilla Bean Noel

Scent: Pineapple Fizzy Pop

Scent: Pebbles & Bam Bam

Scent: Lucy Westernra

Scent: Melon Ball

Scent: Easter Parade

Scent: Lemon Grass + White Ginger Tea

Scent: Polynesian Plumeria + Peach

Scent: Victorian Rose

Scent: Orc Bacon

Scent: Maple Blueberry Buttercream

Scent: Loopy Zucchini Bread

Scent: 5 O'Clock Some Where

Extra “Love” Received

Scent: Feel Like a Monster

Scent Description: apricot, root beer, vanilla

Scent: Caramel Apple

Overall Order Thoughts:

I love this vendor; the wax is always super strong! The shipping is always super quick, even if it's a pre-order, she doesn't keep them open very long, which I love! Pretty sure she also does customs if asked.

Things I don't love: Her labels and the web site she uses, storenvy. Storenvy charges almost $4 to shop, I feel like this should be a vendor fee vs a customer fee.

Movie: Hypnotic (2023) Caution: Spoiler Alert

 Hypnotic

Came out; 2023

Time; 1 hours 33 minutes

Watched: Peacock

Rated: R for violence

IMDB Rating; 5.5/10

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring;

Ben Affleck as Danny Rourke

Alice Braga as Diana Cruz

JD Pardo as Randy Nicks

Dayo Okeniyi as River

Jeff Fahey as Carl Everett

Jackie Earle Haley as Jeremiah

William Fichtner as Lev Dellrayne

Zane Holtz as Trout

Hala Finley Minnie Rourke (10 years old)

Ionie Olivia Nieves as Minnie Rourke (7 years old)

Story Line;

A detective investigates a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program

Thoughts:

This was really good. It's not what you think at all! Once everything comes to light it all makes sense!

It keeps you intriged and guessing the whole time

CAUTION; Major Spoiler Alert

Danny Rourke, an Austin Police Department detective, recalls to his therapist the abduction of his seven-year-old daughter, Minnie, which led to the dissolution of his marriage. Afterwards, he is picked up by his partner, Nicks, who informs him they have received an anonymous tip-off call that a safe deposit box at a bank will be robbed. At the stakeout, they witness a mysterious man give unheard instructions to civilians, bank employees, and fellow policemen, who seemingly follow his commands as he enters the bank. Rourke races to the targeted safe deposit box, finding inside it a picture of Minnie with the message "Find Lev Dellrayne" written on it. Rourke pursues the man to a rooftop, where he witnesses him command two police officers to shoot each other as he escapes. Convinced the heist has something to do with the disappearance of his daughter, Rourke investigates. Trace run by Nicks on the tip-off call leads Rourke to the address of fortune-teller Diana Cruz. After he describes to her the man from the bank heist, a client of Cruz's, under the control of that man, drives a motorcycle through Cruz's window before killing himself. Rourke takes Cruz into protective custody. She explains that the mysterious man from the bank is named "Lev Dellrayne" and that he and Cruz are both the escaped "Hypnotics": powerful hypnotists trained by a secretive government "Division" to control people's minds. Rourke is mysteriously immune to such mind control when Cruz tries to exercise it on him. Meanwhile, Dellrayne outside the police station commands Nicks to attack Rourke and Cruz, and Cruz then shoots him dead in self-defense. Rourke and Cruz flee to Mexico. There, they learn from a former Division contact Jeremiah that Dellrayne is seeking "Domino", a powerful weapon developed by the Division, stolen, and hidden by Dellrayne when he escaped. Dellrayne then wiped his own memory and left behind "triggers" prompting him to gradually recall Domino's location and regain his own hypnotic power. Dellrayne eventually reveals himself to be Jeremiah in disguise and pursues Rourke and Cruz through a hypnotically constructed environment before Rourke taps into his own previously unknown hypnotic power, allowing them to escape. Rourke and Cruz seek out River, a reclusive Division hacker, who discovers Rourke's wife, Vivian, in Division's database. Later, Rourke investigates River's database himself, and discovers that Minnie is Domino, the daughter of two powerful hypnotics: Rourke and Cruz (who is revealed to be Vivian). As "Cruz" interrupts him, Rourke realizes that the room and all of the events up to this point have been hypnotic constructs. He wakes up in a large room populated by Division agents, all of whom he has seen throughout the constructed story, including Nicks and "Dellrayne." Vivian and "Dellrayne" explain that Rourke and Vivian are both hypnotics, and their daughter Minnie was born and raised within the Division, but that he escaped with her to stop her from becoming their weapon. Hiding her and then wiping his memory, Rourke no longer remembers where she is, and the Division has been putting him through constructs of the search for her to make him remember. Rourke is plugged back into the construct, where he repeats the session with his therapist and the stakeout at the bank heist. However, Rourke soon escapes using his own powers and flees as the Division realizes that "Find Lev Dellrayne" refers not to a person but "Deer Valley Lane": the location of a ranch where Rourke's foster parents have been hiding Minnie. Rourke arrives at the ranch and is reunited with Minnie, who is now aged three years and is in full control of her hypnotic powers. The Division surrounds the ranch, but it is all revealed to be another construct of Minnie's creation. Minnie restores Vivian's memories that she was involved in Rourke and Minnie's escape and that her memory was subsequently wiped so that when Minnie would be powerful enough to defeat the entire Division at once, Vivian could unwittingly lead them to her. Minnie forces the Division agents to kill each other, and she, her parents, and Rourke's foster parents celebrate their new-found freedom. In a mid-credits' scene, "Dellrayne" is revealed to have survived the shoot-out, having constructed Rourke's foster-father to look like him during the fight with Minnie.

Wax: Swanky August 2023 Order

 Vendor; Swanky

Web; www.swankycandlecompany.com

Facebook; www.facebook.com/groups/swankyscentgroup

Owner; Jeannie Jeffrey

Loaves

Scent: Kissing in the Rain

Scent Description: Boardwalk Marshmallow Clouds + Rain Showers + Let them Eat Cake + Vanilla Bean

Scent: Lavender Paris

Scent Description: Sweet on Paris + Sweet Lavender

Rose Tart

Scent: Cafe Strawberry Brulee

Scent Description: Espresso + Strawberry + Creme Brulee

Samplers

Sensual Mystery Sample

Scent: Velvet Cloak

Scent Description: Bergamot Black Violet soft Pink Pepper a touch of Amber

Scent: White Tea Hotel

Scent: Amber Crystal

Scent Description:  Amber Spiced Ginger Woods

Scent: Golden Sands Exotic Vanilla Pink Sugar

Scent: Satin Sheets

Scent: Vanilla Orchid Ebony Woods

Scent; Yoga

Scent: Exotic Orchid & Musk

Scent: Baracot Cashmere Cedar

Bakery Mystery Sample

Scent: Strawberry Sweet Cakes Frosted Cupcake

Scent: Bougie Vanilla Blackberry Scone Cake Pops

Scent: Vanilla Dream Cafe Strawberry Pound Cake

Scent: Blueberry Zucchini Vanilla Cream Bomb

Scent: Cocoa Puffs Birthday Cake Sugar Cookies

Scent: Pumpkin Pecan Waffles Bear Claw Sugar Cookie Noel

Scent: Sweet on Paris Wild Berry Strawberry Cream Cake

Scent: Lavender White Cake Angel Food Cupcake

Scent: Carrot Cake Cinnamon Buns Cream Cheese Frosting

Buttery Toast & Jam Sample

*All scents start with “Buttery Toast & Jam”

Scent: Strawberry Pound Cake

Scent: Lemon Ice Box Cookies Waffle Cone

Scent: Cream Cake Sugar Cookies

Scent: Blueberry Waffle Cone

Scent: Sugar Cookie Birthday Cake

Scent: Wild Berry Cream Cake

Scent: Pink Sugar Cookies

Scent: Pumpkin Pecan Waffles Noel

Extra “Love” Received

Body Spray Mystery

Scent: Pink Sugar Cookies

Scent: Pumpkin Ginger Apple

Scent: Coffee Bean + Apple Butter + Apple Pie + Ice Cream

Scent: Coffee Bean + Gingerbread + Cinnamon Buns + Cake Pops

Overall Order Thoughts:

Everything smells great! I wish scent descriptions were more available, easier to find but I love this vendor.

The wax always throws a nice medium in my house. I missed the actual pre-order but was able to get plenty on the overpour restock!