Christmas candle

Yesterday I spent all day making candle boxes to give to Dex's nursery staff - or as Dex calls them 'his ladies' :o)  Now I've never made these before, so it took me all day to make 4, plus a trip to Hobbycraft for more acetate because I kept scoring them wrong and I needed more supplies to ruin lol...

The photos are of the first one I managed to successfully make - I think the ones I made after probably looked slightly better than this, but I didn't get round to taking photos of them, and we've taken them into nursery today as it's Dex's last day before Christmas.

I googled for candle box tutorials and came across this one which I more or less followed, but I had to adjust the measurements a bit because my candles were too big really.  So if I do them again, I'd get smaller candles.  The papers are GCD Studios Joyful Peace and the sentiment on the tag is an Elzybells one.  I wish I'd added a bit more detail to them now, looking at the pics, but never mind at least they're done!

I'm entering my box for the following challenges:

• ABC Christmas - Y is for Yippee - it's almost Christmas!
• CES Challenges - a traditional Christmas

I'm going to have a bit of a moan now about the recent blog candy that I offered... I posted it to the winner at the beginning of last week and have had a couple of emails to say that the package still hadn't arrived.  I was a bit irritated at the bloomin' postal service to be honest, it does annoy me when things go missing or are delayed like that.  I offered to send her some other bits after Christmas if the parcel didn't turn up at all.  But then it became fairly obvious that (without actually saying it outright) she must believe that I didn't even send it, because she's stopped following my blog... this is someone who's cards I've been commenting on for a little while and she's been commenting on mine, and I thought was a genuinely nice person.  She obviously doesn't think the same about me if she thinks I'd lie about sending the parcel.  I'm now not sure about even bothering with blog candies again, if they cause this sort of bad feeling.  I was really upset about it yesterday and didn't feel like blogging at all, but I know that most bloggers are lovely so I won't let it put me off.

Right, moan over!  As I've been so busy over the last few days and I'm feeling a bit wiped out by my yucky cold, I've decided to take the morning off lol, and sit here with the laptop and catch up with you all.  Then this afternoon we'll be watching my little shepherd in his first nativity, bless him... tissues at the ready!