Burn the Candle, Find a Ring

I don't remember how old I was or who we received it from (most likely a Christmas or birthday gift), but I have memories as a child of receiving a treasure candle.  I remember being fascinated by it as we waited for the candle to burn down to reveal the "treasures" mostly charms and small tokens. We (I) got so excited every time another treasure would be freed from the wax. Since then I've kept my eye out for something similar, but have never come across one-although I admittedly never google searched for one.

While we were on our trip last week one of the girls mentioned something about a candle that you burned to reveal a ring from a website called JewelScent.com.  It immediately made me think of my childhood treasure candle and I was intrigued.  It wasn't quite the same as my treasure candle, it was better! Like a treasure candle for grown-ups!  As you burned your candle a packet of gold foil would appear in the wax, and inside the gold foil would be a ring...valued anywhere from $10 to $7,500. Sign me up. Next thing I knew all four of us girls were on our phones purchasing candles, strategizing the best way to obtain the $7,500 ring.  We decided the random size selector would probably be best, but I wasn't going to let it pick my candle fragrance.  I am picky when it comes to the way our house smells....fresh, clean scents are my favorites, while sugary scents make my head hurt, so I selected Sweet Gardenia.

My candle arrived Monday in the mail and I was like a little kid at Christmas.  I lit that sucker up immediately to see how far I could get, and to my surprise I could see gold foil by the end of the evening.  It was just a corner so I decided to leave it alone and see how far I could burn it down Tuesday.  When I got home from work last night I did the same thing, and by 8pm I had a clear view of the entire gold foil packet! It was a lot closer to the top than I had expected.

I snuffed it out, grabbed my tweezers and gently lifted the packet out.  I was momentarily sad because my package clearly contained a ring (if you get one of the most expensive ones, they put a voucher in the packet that you send off), but as I opened it up I was pleasantly surprised.  My ring contained a beautiful marquise cut amethyst which is my birthstone and the size 8 ring fit my fat-knuckled finger perfectly!

It couldn't have gotten any better than this! Now I am not sure what is real and what is not on it-nor do I really care, but it sure is pretty!  The candle has a 100 hour burn time, so we will get to enjoy it for quite a while. I am considering it my souvenir from Colorado since I was there when I bought it.  =)   I am thinking this is a perfect gift idea for birthdays/Christmas!

Happy Wednesday!