Waxing Lyrical?

 

Last year  I bought several packs of candle wax sheeting in Tiger, for just £1 each.

I thought it would make a fairly cheap activity for our Friday Club kids sometime, and Christmas seemed as good a time to decorate a candle as any!

 

 

 

 

So armed with the box of candles I had bought in Ikea a while back, I set about thinking of simple ways to decorate the candles.

It soon became obvious I couldn't run with my original idea of making it an advent calender, with 24 markers on the side...as the candles just weren't long enough, plus the cutting up of so many strips was a little daunting to say the least!

 

 

I remembered I had some small Christmas cutters somewhere, but when I found the stash, I further remembered I had had a big sort out last year and passed on to charity a load of cutters...the little ones being amongst them!

I did find this Christmas tree cutter, but it was too wide for the candle..so Teen One set about cutting them out by hand  (with strict instructions to get the most out of the small sheet!)

This was however, very time consuming and she was trying to finish some reading for the next days Uni class.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I then remembered I had a box of cutters from my days at dabbling with cake decorating...and hey presto, a small flower cutter which was ideal for a star and a ruler which was free from Woman's Weekly in the 80's with the perfect Christmas tree!

 

 

 

After half an hour we had enough trees and stars pressed out and ready for the kids to decorate their candles with

 

 

Apologies for the rubbish photo, but they had a great time with it all tonight, using some of the pink wax to act as tinsel and baubles.

It was well worth the small amount of outlay and slight hassle last night.

I have learnt that I really detest the smell of wax though!

 

 

 

Out of the supermarket trip today I found a dairy free advent calendar for our "free from" student, and also a fun one for out student doctor, who has a Dalmatian dog back home in Malaysia...after all...you're never too old for an advent calendar are you?!

 

 

 

 

When I saw Grandma the other day, she said she had bought me a knitting pattern on her weekend away.

It was only today I got round to looking in the bag she had presented me with.

She had even kindly bought me the wool to go with it!

I did feel a little bad as I already have the pattern, but it is just a copy ( from FQ2FF I believe) but I think these adorable hedgehogs will make a great festive project.