This Year's Yield...
I made 15 pair of layer-dipped candles and 11 pair of traditional candles.
Shown here are most of mine and a few made by others.
Tuesday, February 05, 2019
Monday, February 04, 2019
Mea Culpa!
OOPSY!! I thought I had a photo all set to post, but I was wrong,
and only now had a moment to come by the blog and saw the truth! YIPE!
To compensate, here's a photo of one enthusiastic Grand Candle Maker! :-D
Sunday, February 03, 2019
Saturday, February 02, 2019
Friday, February 01, 2019
🕯It has begun!🕯
Candlemas is Saturday, but I started the candle making process tonight! YEAH! I am loving this!
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Detail of an artist's rendering of a Mercedes-Benz V12 engine
Eric von Hove, of Belgium
Made with the help of 43 Moroccan artisans, and including yellow copper, nickle-plated copper, mother of pearl, white cedar wood, silver, forged iron, recycled aluminum, cow bone and more.
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Monday, January 28, 2019
I STAND ASTONISHED!
Let me keep company always with those who say
"Look!" and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads. ~ Mary Oliver
"Look!" and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads. ~ Mary Oliver
As you know, each year on Candlemas (Feb 2nd) I melt down a year's worth of altar candle stubs and spend the day hand-dipping candles. This weekend I went to pick up a boxful of stubs from the church that saves them for me, and was delighted and amazed to find six boxes of candles waiting for me!! (See photos!) I stood there in wonder, amazement, grateful astonishment! I am still reverberating with awe! Joy!
Recently, the altar guild directress was clearing out the storage closet and found 5 boxes of old candles tucked in the back. As they are yellow beeswax, the church had long ago decided not to use them, favouring the usual liturgical white candles (like the stubs). But these are 51% beeswax and excellent quality, and there are dozens of them in each box!!! 
I'm not sure I can bear to melt them down (at least not all), so I may dip some into various colours of wax, and simply hand decorate others. Along with the 5 boxes was a box of stubs, and on top of the stack was a box with candle decorating wax! That's timely, as soon I will be hand decorating the church's new Paschal Candle.
I'm not sure I can bear to melt them down (at least not all), so I may dip some into various colours of wax, and simply hand decorate others. Along with the 5 boxes was a box of stubs, and on top of the stack was a box with candle decorating wax! That's timely, as soon I will be hand decorating the church's new Paschal Candle.Sunday, January 27, 2019
Saturday, January 26, 2019
Friday, January 25, 2019
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Monday, January 21, 2019
Total Lunar Eclipse on MLK Jr Day!
via Patch.com
During the course of this thread today, please post your favourite MLK, Jr quotes.
Sunday, January 20, 2019
Saturday, January 19, 2019
Friday, January 18, 2019
Mitch has met his Match!
That "Mitch, I am"
That "Mitch, I am"
We have to find that "Mitch, I am."
We do not see Mitch on the floor
We see Mitch, not, behind his door
We do not see him in the hall
We do not see him on the mall
We do not see him drafting bills
We see him often schmoozing shills
His PAC's accounts now overflow
Where flacs and hacks dump dirty dough
We don't see Mitch under the dome
He counts his paychecks safe at home.
Mitch waits there for his calls from Kochs
Mitch won't respond to other folks
`Cept Vlad or Oleg if they phone
Then we will see the Mitch they own
We'll see Mitch ask "What can I do?"
To steal more crumbs from me and you
We'll see Mitch serve the oligarch
While hiding safely in the dark.
That "Mitch, I am"
That "Mitch, I am"
He's rich and doesn't give a damn.
~ Carl A. Varady
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Monday, January 14, 2019
Sunday, January 13, 2019
Saturday, January 12, 2019
It's Snowman Snow! ⛄️
Heavy, wet, sticky snow!
The worst to shovel and lousy for skiing,
likely to break branches and cause power outages,
but perfect for sculpting!
Friday, January 11, 2019
Thursday, January 10, 2019
Leave the Lights On
"Leave the Lights On"
by SuicideBySafetyPin
Digital Art / Fractal Art / Raw Fractals ©2013-2019
Wednesday, January 09, 2019
Not. Kidding.
via Dean blogger Liane Allen:
What trump's press office is sending out to surrogates. When you hear these things parroted
all over the old-school and social media in the next few days, you'll know where it came from:
One of these days I am going to be so conflicted between hilarity and fury that they'll find me hysterical~!
Tuesday, January 08, 2019
Tweety Bird
(I was saving this for the 20th, but given tonight's Address, this seems a good time.)
Contributed by Alan
Monday, January 07, 2019
Sunday, January 06, 2019
Saturday, January 05, 2019
Friday, January 04, 2019
Thursday, January 03, 2019
Wednesday, January 02, 2019
Tuesday, January 01, 2019
Monday, December 31, 2018
As the Old Year Ends...and the New begins...
✨ I found this image online, titled "Father Time holding the New Year Babe."
That made me curious because doesn't the old year die as the new year is born?
As I thought, "Someone had better grab that baby!" I suspected it was really
a rendition of Simeon in the Temple. So I looked up the image, and sure enough
it is a painting by Andrey Shishkin titled "Simeon and baby Jesús."
That event allegedly took place 40 days after Jesus' birth, but I'll take it.
It is a gorgeous painting!! It looks ancient but Shishkin is a modern painter, only 58 years old.
Sunday, December 30, 2018
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