Racine & Me: Ambitious Vibes Candle Co. Valentine's Weekend fun
RACINE, Wis. (CBS 58) -- AnaLisa Garcia opened a candle and women’s empowerment boutique inside of Midwest Market last year in March. She is celebrating their 1-year anniversary next month. This past weekend we celebrated the addition of the Candle Bar to the store where anyone can come in to make a candle at our candle bar on a walk-in basis. We were doing monthly candle workshops that people absolutely loved but couldn’t always make the date or time due to work or scheduling conflicts. The candle bar offers the flexibility of coming in to make a candle any time during our candle making hours on a walk-in basis.
● The process: Choose your candle vessel (will have monthly rotating vessels), smell all of the scents and choose your favorites, mix and pour your custom candle, decorate your label. Our candle bartender will walk you through the process and pour your scent shots. Candles take about 30 minutes to make and 1 hour cooling time.
● Rotating candle vessel options. February: wooden heart shaped dough bowls, heart shaped pink and red tins. March: wooden shamrock dough bowls, April: wooden bunny dough bowls.
● Bar was built by Ed from Cheeselab Designs which is another store in the Midwest Market who offers custom woodwork creations.
● My intention for adding the candle bar is to offer a new fun, creative activity for Racine locals to do and to also create and build community.
● Valentine’s Day weekend at Midwest Market- FREE Carnation
● Have a date night making candles at the Candle Bar on Valentine’s Day, Make a FREE heart shaped car diffuser with each candle bar purchase (Friday only)
● Galentine’s Day event (Sat 2/15): Create flower wreaths with Zinndahlia Designs and heart shaped candles at the Candle Bar. Zinndahlia Designs is another store in the Midwest Market that offers floral arrangement workshops
● Mommy/Son Daddy/Daughter Valentine’s Date (Sun 2/16): Create 2 heart shaped tin candles (1 for parent, 1 for child) at the Candle Bar and 2 tie dye T-shirts with Cherrello’s (1 adult size, 1 youth size). Cherrellos is another store in the Midwest Market that offers walk in tie dye t-shirt workshops.
● Featuring women authors in store that write about important topics that affect women such as sexual assault and domestic violence. Proceeds from book sales will be donated to BeLEAF- a local nonprofit that provides support and resources for survivors. Candace Sanchez is one of the authors we are currently featuring who we will be partnering with August- December to host women’s workshops.
● Will be offering party packages for groups up to 16 people. Contact me via email or FB message for details. [email protected]