Home-made Gingerbread Candles

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If you’re like many people, you may have purchased an essential oil that you thought you would love, only to find out that it just doesn’t appeal to you. In this case, you might be wondering what you can do with the oil since you don’t want to use it as a personal scent. The good news is that essential oils can be used in many different ways, including as a scent for candles.

Ginger essential oil is a great choice for making holiday-scented candles. It has a warm and spicy aroma that is perfect for the holiday season, and it offers a range of benefits as well. Ginger oil is known for its soothing and calming properties, making it a great choice for relaxation and stress relief. Additionally, it has antibacterial and antifungal properties, making it a great choice for cleaning and purifying the air in your home.

If you have some ginger essential oil that you’re not sure what to do with,

Make this holiday scented Candle using this candle-making recipe.

I’ve done embroidery on paper before and it’s a lot of fun. You can use a needle to punch out a particular shape to stitch, or my favorite thing is to take a copy of an old photograph or a page from a magazine and add stitched details to the original picture.

One thing I haven’t tried but would also be fun to do is cross stitching on paper.

This is a technique that requires a fair amount of preparation because you need to find a pattern you can easily transfer and print it at actual size, then use the pattern itself to help you decide where to put the holes in your paper. And then after all that you can do your stitching.

It’s a pretty straightforward process, but Crewel Ghoul has a great tutorial that walks you through how to do it step by step. It even includes a sample pattern you can print out and try for practice.

The post also has tips for starting and finishing your threads so that the back looks as neat as it can, if that’s something that’s important to you. (When I have done embroidery on paper I usually just tape the thread end to the back. If the back were going to show I’d probably just cover it with more paper.)

Stitching on paper is a fun way to make bookmarks or greeting cards, but you also need to make sure your paper is thick enough to support the holes you’ll be making in it. This post has a good rundown of materials you’ll need and what kind of paper is best. She used watercolor paper but I’ve used card stock and scrapbook paper that was a little thicker than the average printer paper.

You can always test a little on the paper you’re considering to make sure it will stand up to the project.

Check out the post, which includes a video, over at Crewel Ghoul for more tips for cross stitching on paper. Is this something you’ve tried before? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Crewel Ghoul]

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