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Candle Country’s Donuts, Bears and More

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I found out about Candle Country through the Facebook group Canadian Candle Makers and the People Who Love Them.

Donut CandleCandle Country makes the most realistic and delicious looking bakery candles. These donuts look good enough to eat! They also create candles for weddings, baby showers and more. Some of their food candles I have never seen anywhere else. Vegetable candles sold are corn on the cob, tossed salad, deviled eggs, lobster, tomatoes, broccoli, celery, peppers, olives and more.
Baby Candle
Check out this adorable baby booties tart and warmer. What a great baby shower favor/prize idea. Other baby themed candles offered are stand alone baby booties, wash cloths, bibs, safety pins and sleeping baby tarts.

There are numerous dipped in wax plush animals to choose from but my favorite has got to be the chef with a heart. They’re dipped with Chef Candleyour choice of scented soy wax and are used as air fresheners.chocolate strawberry candle

If you’re looking for romance try some chocolate covered strawberries, kissable lip tarts, pink champagne bottles or fancy heart tarts.

This is one talented busy woman and the selection offered at Candle Country is impressive. If you wanted to try your hand at making your own she even has a page of molds for sale.

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Do You Park Your Cross Stitch Thread? Try The Royal Roads Method

I have not done a lot of big cross stitch projects, but sometimes even with small projects it can be hard to decide exactly where to begin and how to work through the chart if you’re working with multiple colors. The general categories for the possible methods are known as cross country and parking. 

Cross country means that you’re working one color at a time, moving around the chart (or the section of the chart you’re working on) until you’re done with that color. Parking means you’re working in a smaller section and doing all the colors in that area, “parking” the threads by leaving them attached to the canvas but out of the way while you finish each section. 

Royal Rows is a specific way of parking named by Alison Royal, which is explored in detail on a post on Stitching Daily. 

The idea is that you’re working one “tower” of stitches at a time (she uses a section of 10 stitches across by 20 down, but you can do whatever makes sense to you). You work all the stitches of a color at a time, starting at the top left and working your way down. When you’re done with a color you can park it where needed in the section below your current tower (known as the dungeon) or in the “east tower,” which is the section to the right. 

There’s also a specific way of dealing with thread ends when you’re done with a color. This is a super simplified version (head to the blog post at Stitching Daily to get all the details) but the basic idea is that you’re working from left to right and top to bottom across the work, parking the threads in the next section when you’re done with them and systematically choosing which color to work with next. 

The whole idea of parking is kind of overwhelming to me though I will admit that it makes a lot of sense. I guess I need to try it on a smallish big project and see how it goes. Do you use the parking method of cross stitch? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo via Stitching Daily]