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Natural Wax Candles from It’s a Soy

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purple urn candleThe Natural Wax Candle Company, home of It’s a Soy make all their candles from soybeans and vegetable waxes grown in the USA. They use cotton wicks for their candles and do not use any paper or metal. Their company sells many gourmet candle products but shown here is an urn shaped soy candle.

Since soybeans are a renewable resource, they help support the economy. Soy wax also doesn’t burn as hot and holds a scent well.

I discovered the Natural Wax Candle Company thanks to Danny Seo from the Simply Green blog. He was posting about a dilemma he had about filling his terra cotta pots with wax. He ended up sending them off to It’s a Soy to get filled with butter cream scented soy wax and they look wonderful and apparently smell delicious too. Check the terra cotta candles out at Simply Green.

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Christmas Ornament Cross Stitch Patterns

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.