Blogging From A to Z - 2018 - C is for

Welcome to the letter C in the A to Z Challenge for 2018.  This year I am alphabetting my way through Michaels Arts and Crafts store.

I said I wasn't using crafts as a word and I covered coupons in the A is for App post.  I'm choosing candles for my letter C.  We have walls and walls of these jar candles in all different scents.  They have fun names like Sunset Lily, Coral Amber, Lilac and Hyacinths, Vanilla and Macaron, etc.  This was just one wall.  Aren't the colors pretty?

Turquoise Waters...doesn't that sound beachy?

There are the standard stick taper candles.

And pillars.

Tea lights

 

Ginger Citrus

and wax melts that don't have a wick but you put them in a holder with a tea light underneath and as the wax melts, it gives off a great scent.

There are also some interesting candle holders as well.  This is a pretty silver vine treatment that was a good foot and a half long,

I think there was room for five or six taper candles in this holder.  I couldn't fit it all in the picture.

with a matching pillar holder.

We even have the wick materials so you can make your own candles if you want.

Today you get an A to Z two-fer because the other Big C at Michaels is CLEARANCE!

There is one whole aisle of clearance things and you can find some pretty good deals here.  They take items from all over the store and put them on these shelves so it is a little bit of everything.  You could spend half an hour just in this aisle!    

I think I see some washi tape rolls in this picture!  This must be from the planner section.

The wooden deer head would make a great Father's Day gift for a hunter, don't you think?  Stain or paint the background and then decoupage a picture of you and the kids in the center?  Actually, this was probably leftover from Christmas and could have been used as Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.  

This looks like some clearance from the baking section...cookie cutters for sure.

There are also usually a few spots throughout the store with clearance on the leftover holiday decorations.  Here are some from Valentines Day.

This is what was left after one of the last Christmas sales...slim pickings!  

Sometimes if there are a lot of extras Michaels will fill cardboard boxes and sell them for $4.99 a box.  The boxes are sealed and you never know what you are going to get until you open them.  (Unless you are one of THOSE customers who go through the boxes to see if it is something you want and then leave the boxes all messed up when you decide you don't want what's inside, in which case the hard working Michaels employees have to go and clean up the area and make it all pretty again) - but I digress.

In the candles above, you can see that I got a deal on the Ginger Citrus tea lights that were regularly $6.99 but I only paid $2.00!

So, next time you visit your local Michaels pick up a candle or two to make your house smell good and then check out the Clearance section and get a deal on those cookie cutters or leftover holiday decorations!

Do you buy things on clearance?  Make your own candles?  Would you open a mystery box before leaving the store?  I wanna know.  

Make sure to stop by the A to Z Challenge page to find some other interesting blogs to visit!

(Note:  All pictures used in this blog series were taken by me at local Michaels stores).