Guilt-free chocolate You, last month: Scarfing spritz cookies with crazed abandon. You, this month: Ruing newly acquired adipose tissue south of the area Formerly Known as Waistline. But the new Godiva Home Fragrance Collection lets you indulge in sweets sans the calories. The chocolatier has puts the scents of Milk Chocolate Truffle, Raspberry Ganache, Black Almond Truffle and White Chocolate Magnolia into cocoa butter-infused wax candles. (There's a seasonal Peppermint Bark, too, "with Madagascar bourbon vanilla and the essence of crushed peppermint" for holidays.) The 7-ounce candles in tinted brown glass have a 50-hour burn time; a 4.4-ounce travel version burns for a fifth of the time. $22.50 and $12.50, respectively, at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis and at www.bathandbodyworks.com.
KIM YEAGER
Martha at Home Depot Martha Stewart is setting up housekeeping at Home Depot.
The home improvement store said it will begin rolling out outdoor living, organization and decor items beginning this month, though it may be closer to late March when some of the items appear in Twin Cities-area stores. Design teams for both partners are still developing products; representatives of each could say only that the patio dining and conversation sets will range in price from $399 to $1,999. A closet organization system and a nine-cube storage unit are also planned. Also part of the launch: lines of low-VOC paint and cleaning products. A 280-color line of interior paint comes in 8-ounce, quart and gallon sizes ($24.97 per gallon), with exterior paint sold by the gallon. Martha Stewart Clean comprises 10 plant- and mineral-based solutions, ranging from 32 ounces of all-purpose cleaner for $3.99 to 128 ounces of laundry detergent for $17.99. An un-Martha-like dearth of details leaves us wanting; the scope of other decor introductions is not yet specified.
Stewart is seemingly everywhere, but not at Kmart anymore. The contract for her product lines there ended in 2009.
KIM YEAGER
