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Welcome to Diane's
Candle Party Info Page

Sometimes people set out in search of great things and other times great things find you.

DianeJust Me
In the fall of 1995, the significant things I'll never forget were: my boys were 5 and 3, my husband and I were financially pressed in the 10th year of making less than $20,000 a year owning/operating a small seasonal restaurant, I was approaching my 30th birthday, and I went to a candle party.

This is one of those times when great things find you. A candle party? Significant? It was a defining moment in my life. It has changed my family's life. Next to becoming a Christian and my family, it is the most important thing that has ever happened to me.

I occasionally burned candles. I was going to the candle party as a favor to my mother-in-law. But something happened at that candle party. The girl who was doing the candle party said "do you work too hard for too little pay?, do you have to miss your children's functions due to work?, do you want a job that's fun?, do you want to go to exotic places? I can help get you started with no investment!" With no investment? She was talking to me. That was EXACTLY what I wanted! My husband thought I didn't have time to mess with candle parties. After all, I was busy! I was/am in the church choir, the church secretary, we had our restaurant, our oldest was starting into the local youth athletic programs, I volunteered at school.......you get the point. I wanted to do it and my husband said "if you feel that strongly about it, it's fine with me (not that I needed his permission, but we do discuss things), but don't ask me to do anything. (Make a note of that quote)"

That was 1995, and by 1999 I was making $25,000 working 2 to 3 evenings per week. In 1999 the company sent us expenses paid to ARUBA. In 2000 they sent us to the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas! 2001 was Cancun, and May of 2002 was --Oahu HAWAII!!! I took my husband with me to ARUBA and the BAHAMAS and went to Cancun with the girls. We both went to Hawaii, it was unbelievable! See our Hawaii Pictures!

That girl was right - everything she said was true. We closed the restaurant (it was too much work.) I never miss a ball game or school function. I LOVE my job. This is all true and here's how I did it~

I agreed to have my own candle party (that paid for my kit so I didn't have to pay for it) and go out and do six shows that my friends had agreed to host for me (they got to pick 25% of their total show sales out of the catalog for having the party.) That was all I was committed to do. If I didn't like it, I wasn't trapped. I could quit and keep my candle kit and the 25% in profits I was paid on the sales from my friends' shows. Who could quit? I LOVED it and I still do!

There is no down side. The harder I work, the more I make.

I didn't decide I wanted leadership until the fall of 1997. The first year, I worked a little and made a little ($3,000). The second year, I worked a little more and made a little more ($6,000). In 1998, I did 65 shows and I made over ($10,000) and as I mentioned previously, I made $25,000 last year. I plan to do 100 shows a year from now on (an average of 2 a week), but because of leadership, my income will continue to grow annually. And my husband (Mr. Don't ask me to do anything) makes many of my initial phone calls for me to anyone wanting information!


We sponsor a child from Africa through Compassion International. Friends of ours from our church have sponsored a child for seven years and went to visit her in Africa while on a medical residency. Their sponsor child pulled a shoebox out from under her bed and had showed them all the letters they had sent her over the years. That convinced us that the children truly do get the letters and monies we send.
You can change the life of a child!


I have been doing in home candle parties for 10 years.