Upcoming Candle Company Shows

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:

July 13-17 at Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market
August 12-15 at New York International Gift Fair
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:

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

Buy 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 CenterÂ in Patterson, Louisiana from August 4-5. Next shows to be announced so check in with their website.

Stitching Housewives offers a ton of cute, sort of country feeling cross stitch patterns with different themes I don’t quite understand but they’re super cute so let’s get into it.

One section is called Dapper Doodads, which it looks like are all square. Tiered Tray Tidbits are generally more rectangular, and RoundAbouts are circular. There are also Sassy Strippers, and I don’t know what the difference among all the different kinds is. All of them are colorful, graphic, often with text, and mounted on something cute. A lot of them are seasonal designs.

Just as an example, here’s Charlie Chicken, a big black chicken hauling an even bigger pumpkin in a wagon past a house with sunflowers. This one is labelled as a Tiered Tray Tidbit, but again I don’t really know why.

This one uses seven colors and is 56 by 42 stitches. It comes out to 4 by 3 inches or 10 by 7.6 cm when stitched on 28 count linen (equivalent to 14 count Aida). It’s shown mounted on a wooden pumpkin, but you could put it in a frame or make it little pillow or whatever you like.

There are lots of smaller categories with some themed projects, such as “calendar crates,” which are themed for the month but don’t actually have the month on them. There’s a lot of Christmas patterns, and smaller collections of Halloween/fall and spring projects.

Another section is called “What’s in My Cup,” which features a tall coffee cup with text on it and decorations in and around the cup. For example there’s a happy birthday cup with a cake coming out of the top and surrounded by presents and balloons. The Good Old Days collection includes monthly minis with the month on one piece, a house decorated for the season and another little seasonal design.

The seasonal series includes literal seasons as well as Halloween and Christmas designs.

It’s hard to tell you what’s here but if you like the style of this one or combinations of text and fun images, check out all the goodies at Stitching Housewives.

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