DIY Christmas Candles 2 Different Ways

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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The celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is important throughout Mexico and other parts of the world. Her feast day is Dec. 12, and the celebrations honoring her appearance to Juan Diego in 1531 begin a few days before that.

Whether you celebrate yourself or just want to share about the celebration at home or in your classroom, Las Mañanitas: The Beautiful Celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is a good place to start. The book, by Ernesto Joel Vega Rosales and Jeanette Gonzalez Seneviratne, with illustrations by Dana Sanmar, tells the story of a family’s celebration of the feast day in both English and Spanish.

They prepare with a novena, which is nine days of prayers and preparations. The children, Lucia and Pablo, are given special outfits made by their grandmother that look like what Juan Diego might have worn when he saw Our Lady. The book describes the prayers that are made each day, such as a prayer for respect for life, for families and for the indigenous people of the Americas, to name a few.

As told in the book, Juan Diego was a native Mexican born near modern day Mexico City. His given name was Cuaauhtlatoatzin, which means “He who speaks like an eagle.” When he converted to Christianity his name was changed to Juan Diego, and as he walked to church he passed a hill called Tepeyac. One day he heard the birds singing especially beautifully and a voice called him to go to the top of the hill.

There he saw Our Lady of Guadalupe, who asked him to tell the bishop she wanted a chapel built in her name at the foot of the hill. The bishop asked for a sign that Juan Diego really saw her, and later she had him collect flowers that she blessed and take them to the bishop. When Juan Diego dropped the flowers, an image of Our Lady could be seen on his cloak, which is still on display in her basilica to this day.

The feast day is celebrated as mañanitas, which includes singing, indigenous music and dancing, and children presenting flowers to Our Lady. Juan Diego is remembered today as being humble, brave and faithful, and was the first indigenous American made a saint.

The book is colorful and tells the story in a clear way, and it’s fun to have it both in English and Spanish if you teach Spanish or speak Spanish at home or in the classroom. It’s a great way to learn the basics of the celebration and the story of Juan Diego and why he is still remembered today.

About the book: 40 pages, paperback, published 2024 by Loyola Press. Suggested retail price $14.99.

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