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LuminEssent Candles Recycles and Gives to Charity

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Recycled Glass CandleBesides the recycled glass votive shown here LuminEssent Candles sells melts, tealights, pillars, jars, and travel tins.

LuminEssent Candles are environmentally-friendly and made from soy wax, which makes them burn longer and cleaner than paraffin.

Specialty Candles:

A portion of the profits from the sale of their “Shift Candles” will be donated to The International Documentary Association to help finish the film. “The Shift film raises awareness to the story of our roles in an evolutionary shift in our collective consciousness. As it chronicles the faces, the stories and leaders assisting in this social transformation, the film reveals its emergence & meaning.”

The Shift Candles are 12 tea lights that will burn up to 8 hours each. They’re scented with a blend of Ylang Ylang, Patchouli, Frankincense, Clary Sage, Sweet Orange and Thyme and made to promote a meditative state.

LuminEssent Candles also provides a portion of the profits from the sale of their Tree Candles to The Tree Canada Foundation, a charitable organization that improves our quality of life by planting trees. [tags]recycled glass,votive candles,improve environment,soy candles[/tags]

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Krampus Sweater Knitting Pattern

Santa and Saint Nicholas generally get all the good press, but Central European kids know you don’t want to just be good so you get presents from St. Nicholas; you also want to avoid the ire of Krampus. (He’s depicted as a human-like figure with horns and usually hairy or furry who gives birch rods instead of gifts to kids who are bad.)

If you’re the type to embrace the naughty side (or you just want to scare the children into good behavior over the holidays), maybe you’ll want to knit a Krampus sweater.  

This one, from Sofie Amalie Laulund, is a top down circular yoke sweater with Krampus faces at the top and cavorting Krampuses further down the body, with some traditional Scandinavian snowflakes thrown in for fun. 

Because of the large motifs there’s not a lot of room for adjusting the fit, but it is available in five sizes (the Ravelry page doesn’t say what the sizing is, and it says its worked with no ease but the photo looks like the sweater has a bit of positive ease, so if you decide to make this one just check the measurements and your own comfort level for ease when picking a size). 

It also uses five colors, but there’s very little red and brown so you can probably use scrap yarn for those parts. It calls for DK weight yarn. You’ll want a background color that helps the creatures stand out. You could also work the snowflake bands in different colors if you want to mix it up. 

The pattern is available in both English and Danish, and you can find it on Ravelry. This is the designer’s first pattern, which kudos to them because it’s such an ambitious (and fun!) project I’m happy to add to my collection of whimsy-filled knits. 

[Photo: Sofie Amalie Laulund]