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It’s Beginning to Smell A Lot Like Christmas

Posted in Candles, Etsy, Holidays, tagged , , , , , , on August 15, 2013| 4 Comments »

My Grandma Harriet used to say this about summer, “first is 4th of July, then comes the Minnesota State Fair, then it’s Christmas.” She was so right. Time is flying so fast I never even got a chance to post anything about my 4th of July holiday, and the Minnesota State Fair starts one week from today. Before I can say ho ho ho Christmas will be upon us. But here’s the thing: I have already begun the Christmas candle production for the three upcoming shows I have before Christmas.

Oh…yeah.

You see, when I’m pouring candles in Craftland the aromas waft through the house. And yes, you can find some of these great autumn and winter aromas in some of the candles in my Etsy shop right now. Click on the picture to fly to my shop for details.

How could you be cold in the winter with this bright red, Spiced Cranberry candle burning?

How about a nice berry scent to sweeten up those chilly nights?

I know, it’s still eighty degrees outside, even in Minnesota. But like Grandma Harriet said, Christmas comes right after the Minnesota State Fair as the time flies.

In the melting pot lately there has been a batch of delicious Hot Apple Cider candles, some spicy Clove, Amish Harvest with its cinnamon and dried fruit tones, and some creamy Cappuccino Hazelnut for a good measure. Warm scents for the cold weather that’s coming.

I’m looking forward to those cold nights, but not until after the fair. What could be better than cold nights warmed by a flickering flame and the light aroma of…whatever suits you best?

Keep watching the shop for the candle scents you might love. Auntie B’s Wax is a great place to do some holiday shopping for other people too!

Invigorating Peppermint!

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Welcome, 2013

Posted in Holidays, tagged , on December 31, 2012| 4 Comments »

Well, Christmas is over.  I guess it’s been over for a little while now…Christmas Eve and Day, that is.  The twelve days of Christmas continue on, though, and so do the festivities.  In fact I took all of Sunday to put the house back together relax after entertaining my family day before.  I haven’t entertained in a while and to tell the truth it took a bit out of me.  It was a good time, however, and we did all the things we’re supposed to do when having a little Christmas cheer – eating, drinking, chatting, and listening to old songs on the Victrola.

I was lax in one thing this Christmas ~ picture taking.  What was I thinking?  Could it be I was completely in the moment and not thinking about documenting?  What good is blogging about things without including pictures?

Christmas colors ~ this is as good as it gets for Christmas pictures on this post.

Tonight we count down to the close of 2012 and celebrate the birth of a new year. Lots of you might be going out in your fancy clothes to do some partying with the masses. Husby and I will be staying at home with a good movie or two and some delicious snow crab, cooked by Husby himself. We’ll binge on the leftover Christmas cookies and drink a little bit of wine. We’ll toast the new year, although I doubt we’ll make it to midnight to do so.

From all of us at the Auntie B’s Wax world headquarters I bid you Happy New Year. Celebrate heartily and when I see you in 2013 maybe we can discuss some resolutions for the year. Or not. We’ll see.

Cheers!

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Wordless Wednesday

Posted in Holidays, Wordless Wednesday, tagged , , on December 26, 2012| 8 Comments »

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Tidings Of Comfort And Joy

Posted in Holidays, tagged , , , , on December 25, 2012| 2 Comments »

Merry Christmas everyone!

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Christmas Cookies

Posted in Food, Holidays, tagged , , , , , on December 21, 2012| 2 Comments »

I haven’t been blogging much lately because I’ve been so busy with all that comes with the Christmas season. That includes baking Christmas cookies. While I’m baking cookies for the season lots of things go through my head. Like, what makes this particular cookie a “Christmas cookie” for me? Why don’t I make cookies more often throughout the rest of the year? And this year I had to wonder, is baking Christmas cookies (or any cookies for that matter) an obsessive/compulsive’s dream, or nightmare?

Take, for example, these lovely little morsels. They have to be shaped into “small” balls. Without the help of one of Martha Stewart’s completely neurotic cookie dough baller thingies, one must be very careful to use the exact amount of dough in each cookie and shape them in to perfectly round balls.

Not only do the dough balls have to be perfectly round, they also have to be perfectly spaced on the cookie sheet.

Then, two minutes, exactly two minutes, before they’re complete, chocolate stars must be placed in the middle of the nearly baked cookies, then baked for two more minutes.  Did you hear me?  The chocolate stars must be placed in the middle.  It would be wrong to have a lopsided cookie.

The thing is, I don’t think I’m too obsessive or compulsive when it comes to baking cookies.  However, when I noticed how absolutely perfectly I executed this project I thought an obsessive/compulsive would be proud.  And what’s more, the recipe said the batch makes “about” sixty cookies.  About?  My yield was exactly sixty cookies.  I’m the boss of Peanut Blossoms.

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