There's a bright side to allergies, you know!

Over the summer, probably in June or July, I had gone to the Bath and Body Works in West Edmonton Mall and bought a Wallflower. They're a plug-in-to-the-wall home fragrance unit that has bulbs you can interchange. Neat concept.

The downside? Well, I got home and plugged my Wallflower in with a Sweet Pea bulb, and within 24 hours was having a very sneeze-a-riffic allergic reaction. It made me SO ill. At least I figured out what was making me sick, and promptly unplugged it and opened a couple windows.

Suffices to say, I stopped with the sneezing within a few hours.

Two weeks ago, I decided to give it a second try with a different bulb. Sadly, I had the same result-- although the allergy took a bit longer to kick in, it was still there.

Tired of making myself sick and not wanting to mess around with my allergies anymore, I decided that I would return the whole shebang. Smart little me had kept the bag, the original tags AND reciept all together. So when we went to Kingsway yesterday afternoon, I returned all three bulbs and the plug-in unit, and Rory and I spent about half an hour browsing through Bath and Body Works, looking for a couple scented candles to replace them with. Interestingly enough, I don't react to scented candles at all!!

If you want to see what we bought, hit the jump for the rest of my post...