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scented chocolate strawberry candle Artwax offers many detailed fruit and vegetable candles but their scented chocolate dipped candles are my favorite. They also have great apple, pear, eggplant and pepper candles. The apple candles look very realistic and would make a great gift for a teacher. Artwax also has handmade bakery candles, floating flowers, wedding favors and candle holders.

The locations of Artwax.com shows:

  1. July 13-17 at Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market
  2. August 12-15 at New York International Gift Fair
  3. September 15-18 at Boston Convention & Exhibition Center

Racoon River Candle Company creates their candles with natural soy wax, scents and dyes. They also have a line of bath and body products made with goats milk, shea butter and other natural ingredients. You can purchase their products online or check out their upcoming shows in person held in Iowa. Some dates and locations of Racoon River Candle Company’s events:

  1. Craft Show at Iowa State Fairgrounds, Friday September 21-23
  2. Cedar Falls Craft Show at the UNI dome, October 20-21

buy u candles mason jarBuy U Candles are highly scented, hand poured and last for hours. Their shop is located between Welsh and Lacassine, Louisiana. Buy U Candles and gift baskets are very reasonably priced and triple scented. They also have an online store showcasing their products. Buy U Candles just had an event at the Gator Guns and Knives Show but will be appearing again at the Civic Center  in Patterson, Louisiana from August 4-5. Next shows to be announced so check in with their website.

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Designer Spotlight: The Sub Rosa Design

Traditional cross stitch designs and samplers with a primitive twist are the specialty of The Sub Rosa Design, an Etsy shop based in Hungary.

The largest section in the store is the Halloween/Thanksgiving section, which includes plenty of witches, crows and pumpkins. One that caught my eye is called Pumpkin Angel, a primitive design that looks like a woman with a pumpkin head with wings standing by a gate with pots of sunflowers.

The design is 199 by 67 stitches, which comes out to about 6.8 by 4 inches/17.5 by 10 cm stitched on 32 count linen as shown.

There are also a lot of Christmas patterns, heavy on Santa and snowmen and reindeer. The Easter and spring section includes projects with birds, lambs and rabbits with an old-fashioned feel.

There’s also a large number of sampler cross stitch patterns, taken from historical designs with their original stitchers names and dates on them. I like Lily Hall’s floral design that was originally stitched in 1884. It’s so fun to look at these (or stitch them!) and think about the women (or more accurately probably children learning to stitch) who made the originals and what their lives were like all those years ago. And how cool it is that we’re still doing the exact same thing all these years later!

In addition to holiday and sampler themed projects, there are also patriotic (Americana) designs, a few projects with bees, and a couple of patterns called Sweet Rosie, which seems to be a character stitched in the projects.

You can check out all of their designs at The Sub Rosa Design. If you check them out I’d love to know what patterns you try and how it goes for you!

Have a cross stitch designer you love who should be in the spotlight? Let me know in the comments.

[Photo: The Sub Rosa Design]