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Shamrock CandleLooking for inspiration on candle making ideas for St. Patrick’s day or just want to check out some Irish candles? I have been having fun scoping the net and found all kinds of Celtic sorts of candles.

At Keara’s Irish Gifts you’ll find good luck candles, Irish blessing candles, shamrocks, Celtic knot holders and even a Guinness pint candle. I love the blessing and think it would make a nice sort of keepsake gift but the shamrock candle looks fun for a party.

Home Sweet Irish HomeAt the Celtic Attic there’s a “Home Sweet Irish Home” candle holder among other things. I like this one because there’s a lot of room to catch those wax drips. This candle holder is made out of resin but I could see making something similar by painting a can.

At Inspiration Peak there’s a modern looking candle with this old Irish blessing, scented with wild currant and made with palm wax.

“May you always be blessed with walls for the wind. A roof for the rain. A warm cup of tea by the fire. Laughter to cheer you. Those you love near you. And all that your heart might desire.”

 

 

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The other day I shared some cross stitch patterns with ornaments on them, so this time around I wanted to share cross stitch patterns that you can use as ornaments. It would be fun to do a whole tree in your craft room with cross stitch ornaments, or just add a few to your tree or give them as gifts.

These little quilt inspired cross stitch patterns from Flamingo Toes look like ornaments and fit in 3-inch hoops, which are perfect for hanging on the tree or using to decorate a gift. I love the pastel colors on these but you can use more traditional Christmas colors if you like.

This cute Christmas tree from Lagodargetoshop uses a single color and fits in a 4-inch hoop, but you could make it smaller if you wanted by trimming the last ornaments and gifts from the sides, or just stitch the tree without any other embellishments. Either way it’s a cute addition to your holiday tree.

Stitched Modern has a super cute collection of retro Christmas ornament cross stitch patterns from designer Gera. This is a printed pattern that will be shipped to you. Each pattern is about 40 by 56 stitches, or 2.9 by 4 inches/7.4 by 10 cm on 14 count fabric. To work the whole set you’ll need 20 colors of floss.

These snowflake ornaments from Our Little Handmade Home are each about 2.5 inches/6.4 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric, and they use a single color of floss. They are pretty in red but you could also do white on a blue or black background, or whatever suits your other Christmas tree decorations!

From the description it sounds like this set of vintage style cross stitch characters is presented as one large chart, but the photo from Sampler Antique Stitch shows each of them stitched up as their own little ornament, so it gets included here. You’ll find Santa and snowmen in different poses in this cute collection.