Has it been over six months since I last reported on my book-and-candle combo of the moment?

I’ve owned that book for over a year now (shout out to the thrift store that sold it for $1), and why it took me till now to finally read it is beyond me. But I’m reading it, and I’m impressed so far. I’m currently at the part where Evelyn describes her first husband, and though it’s tempting to skip to her time with Celia (I hear it’s a juicy read), I’m still that nerd who must read everything in order.

And that candle…I don’t light Bath & Body Works candles as often as I used to, thanks to my preference for pure soy/coconut wax candles. I do have a few of them, though, and the scent coming from Fall In Love…it’s like Burberry’s Her perfume filling up my whole apartment right now. Happy Autumn to me!

The amazing Mae West once said “good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” Guess I’m going everywhere this time around with the new candle I have lit and the book I’ll be reading to go with it. The book was a thrift store find; a book with “Bad Girls” in the title that actually features actual bad women (of the Wild West, in this case) is an automatic buy for me. (I also got it to counter all the hackneyed bad boy crap I’ve been seeing from entertainment lately.) While the author makes it known that their stories are based on both fact and folklore, it’s still all intriguing. I just started the book, and I gotta say that Ma Stefflebeck is one bad mutha.

As for the candle, I’m glad it packs a very good throw because I’m enjoying its blend of floral/musky notes. Like a true bad girl, it’s desire and danger in one inviting package. Thanks to a Black Friday sale last year, that candle is one of many candles I own from Bad Ass Candles, a woman-owned company from Texas. If you like your candles paraffin-free, clean-burning, and smelling good in your hood and also want to support a small, woman-owned business for this Women’s History Month and beyond, Bad Ass Candles is where it’s at!