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The Ultimate Bees Wax And Coconut Oil Candle

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Candles are a great way to create a warm and cozy atmosphere in your home, and making your own candles can be a fun and rewarding DIY project. This tutorial showcases a unique combination of two popular ingredients used in candle making – beeswax and coconut oil. Beeswax is known for its natural honey scent and the warm glow it produces, while coconut oil is prized for its moisturizing and skin-nourishing properties.

Using these two ingredients, you can create a beautifully scented and long-lasting candle that is also good for your skin. The tutorial provides a step-by-step guide with detailed photos to help even those new to candle making create a stunning finished product. The tutorial includes information on how to choose the right wicks and containers for your candle, as well as tips on how to pour and cool the wax and oil mixture.

In addition to the natural benefits of the ingredients used, making your own candles allows you to customize the scent and look of your candle to suit your personal preferences. You can experiment with different essential oils or fragrances to create a scent that is uniquely your own. The tutorial also provides tips on how to add decorative touches to your candle, such as dried flowers or herbs, to make it even more personalized.

DIY Coconut oil ad Bees Wax Candles.

 

 

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How to Manage a Large Piece of Cross Stitch Fabric

I am known to be really paranoid when it comes to cutting cross stitch fabric for a project. I will math it out, count, recount, think about it, worry, decide it needs to be bigger than math plus my already large margin for error suggests. If I could just be confident in choosing the correct size of fabric I’d have a lot more stitching time!

Sometimes you have a lot of extra fabric beyond where you are stitching because your fabric is too big. Or maybe you’re just working on a big project that leaves excess fabric potentially in your way when you are stitching. 

Hannah Hand Makes has a post all about how to deal with excess fabric on the sides of a large cross stitch project (which is actually a podcast if you’d rather listen). She is talking more about huge stitchalong projects where you need a big piece of fabric than my particular problem of timid cutting, but the same advice applies. 

I am lazy and don’t want to buy new products, so I would probably devise some sort of rolling and clamping situation with items I already have in the house, but she has some great tips for actual products you can buy that will help with this situation such as large hoops, standing frames and scroll frames. One of these solutions would certainly be worth the investment if you’re doing a year long (or otherwise long term) stitchalong or really big project where that excess fabric is going to cause problems. 

Because beyond being annoying, odds are good I’m going to end up stitching right through that extra fabric and making a big mess. 

Check out all the tips for working with a really big piece of cross stitch fabric over at Hannah Hand Makes. 

What’s the biggest cross stitch project you’ve ever made? I’d love to hear all about it!

[Photo: Hannah Hand Makes]