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DIY Christmas Candles 2 Different Ways

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The holiday season is a time of warmth, joy, and coziness, and nothing sets the mood better than a beautifully scented candle. Whether you’re looking to create a festive ambiance in your home or searching for the perfect holiday gift, candles are a versatile and beloved option. However, Christmas candles don’t need to be drastically different from other candles; it’s all about incorporating seasonal decorations and fragrances. With the right scents and decorations, you can create a candle that perfectly captures the essence of the holiday season.

This video tutorial provides you with two different ways to make your own Christmas candles. The first method is the bowl style, which is currently very popular and is perfect for gift-giving. With this technique, you can customize your candles to match your personal style and the recipient’s preferences. A second method is a traditional approach that involves creating a candle from scratch, with wax and wick. Both methods are easy to follow and require only a few supplies, making them accessible to even the most novice candle-makers.

By making your own Christmas candles, you can infuse your home with the scents of the season, such as cinnamon, peppermint, and vanilla. You can also experiment with different decorations, like dried cranberries, pinecones, and holly leaves, to create a festive and visually stunning candle.

Christmas candles don’t really need to be any different than normal candles,it comes down to using seasonal decorations and of course seasonal fragrant scents.

This video tutorial shows you to different ways to make candles, the bowl style is very popular right now, and perfect for gift-giving.

 

 

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It seems like there’s no end to the available options when it comes to cross stitch bookmarks, which is a good thing because they’re perennially popular to stitch as well. This time I thought I’d share some colorful cross stitch bookmarks to get you ready for the new school year or to make meeting your reading goals a little more fun. 

I love these retro floral designs from The Stitch Patterns. This set of four patterns is rated as very easy, and each bookmark measures 2.5 by 6 inches (or 6.35 by 15.25 cm) on 14 count fabric. 

These cute ones that look like mosaic tile would also be fun to stitch. This set includes five designs from EmbroSTyle Designs, and they call them folk art but they mostly look like old mosaics to me. Either way, the bookmarks are 25 by 101 stitches, and to stitch the full set uses 12 colors. 

If you’re looking for more of a challenge, you can stitch up a work of art with this set of 16 bookmarks designed to look like famous paintings. Stitch some sunflowers or a great wave or a starry night. Most of these are between 14 and 20 colors (the great wave is only 8) and the bookmarks are totally covered with stitching at a count of 35 by 100 stitches. Grab this set from Sunset and Sea Design.

Or how about some bookmarks inspired by books (or by movies inspired by books)? This set of Lord of the Rings bookmarks includes four landmarks from the books/movies. Each one is 35 by 115 stitches and uses between 8 and 17 colors. You can find them at byCountryMagicStitch.

These don’t quite all fit the description of being colorful bookmarks to cross stitch, but a few of them do, and speaking of book-themed bookmarks I had to share this set from Mama Geek inspired by Heartstopper. There are seven designs in all that should be quite familiar to readers (or viewers of the series). 

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25 Floral Bookmark Cross Stitch Patterns