Lighting a candle each day to give thanks, to give love and care.
Golden Flame the candle gnome. I knitted him up in cotton yarn.
Rolling beeswax sheets to make candles. Oh the beautiful scent of beeswax!!
And in the evening, melting down old candles and warming the cold, wintry earth with earth candles. A favourite tradition.
Again, I contemplate our connection with nature. The boys and I spoke about how incredible it is that the snowdrops and the winter aconite in the woods are like nature candles..
I have been away from the blogs so long, and you are blogging more my friend... I can tell little one is giving you more time now - I missed some of your posts. The boys look so adorable, those little blondies full of mud, they are truly little Zimbabweans. Soon they will be little brown babies. Some day our boys shall play together, in the mud, throwing rocks, climbing trees, collecting all those grubs and slugs, building forts - I love those stick towers! I recently met a lady from Germany that goes to Zimbs to buy those amazing soap stone carvings, she says it's one of the best places she's ever visited with the nicest people. So true. Happy Candlemas my friend. Sending you much lovexxx
ReplyDeleteSo lovely to celebrate Candlemas. I love your last photo. Such a contrast to the candles, yet similar. Mother Nature has had more practise than us and, boy, is it lovely to find these small flowers at this time of year!
ReplyDeleteHappy Candlemas to you.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE your earth candles. Do you take them out of the earth too, like sand candles?
ReplyDeleteWe love the smell of beeswax candles too. The kids also roll their eyes at me when I have to sniff their crayons each time they get them out the tins :)
Happy belated candlemas
x
I love visiting your blog after I've been away for a bit. I can almost smell the beeswax. It looks so lovely there--hints of sprintime!
ReplyDeleteI wanted to do this with Benjamin this year & did not find the time--I had large blocks of beeswax and fully intended to make tradition dipped candles.
I suppose we can do it another time...there are no rules, right? :)