{USEFUL Candle Snuggers & Bobèches}

Again it is the time of the year for using candles, lots of candles. With that comes the need for Candle Snuggers & Bobèches. So let me show you once more about these two USEFUL items. For those of you who have not yet heard of Candle Snuggers, they are available at my Zen Cart powered on line boutique: Mariette's Back to Basics and I ship world wide! 

Now available on line at Biedermann and Sons ←(click it)

They do work great for stabilizing your candles inside any vintage or new candle holder. The Bobèches are not expensive at all and will reward you for catching the melted wax before it will get to your fineries. At Biedermann and Sons  ←(click it) you find plenty of them.

Candle Snuggers for inside; Bobèches around candle and a Hugging Angel...

The silver crocheted doily has been hand made by a former Turkish neighbor in The Netherlands.

Incredible work, I would not be able to copy that!

Do you love candles as much as I do?

Sweet hugging angel...

For more detail on the candle holders, see link below this post.

Different Bobèches used here, fluted one and with a gilded edge.

These are the Candle Snuggers...

Sorry All Sold out... but see above link for others!

Related links:
{Hugger Candle Snuggers} previous post by me
{Use Bobèches with YOUR Candles!} previous post by me

{My 6th Most Popular Post | Giovanni Raspini Silver Christmas Balls}

Thought it is interesting for posting here My 6th Most Popular Post | Giovanni Raspini Silver Christmas Balls. It is at least MY most favorite Christmas decoration and we treasure them.

To continue reading and viewing more pictures click: {Giovanni Raspini Silver Christmas Balls} and let's see if we get more visits than the present 1283 

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Please do visit dear friend Celia M. High Heeled Life & Resilientista with Family Christmas Lunch and My Birthday as today, the 19th, is her Birthday! 

Related link: 

{925 Sterling Silver Cherub Angel} My previous post

Mariette's Back to Basics My Zen Cart powered on line boutique for Giovanni Raspini, Italy Christmas balls

Mariette's Back to Basics My Zen Cart powered on line boutique for 925 Sterling Silver Cherub Angel

{Cotton Field in the Heart of Georgia/USA}

My guess is that most of you never ever have seen a real cotton field. Sunday when we came out of Church, they had started mechanical picking of cotton in our neighborhood. So we did hurry for getting some photos before it would be all gone. Proudly showing you here, a local Cotton Field in the Heart of Georgia/USA. A surprise below the first photos, our VERY FIRST view of a cotton field in November of 1983...

Wearing the Advent color, my Escada jacket, from the Premium Outlets, I am holding fresh cotton puff. See below my post the comment from 'seedscatterer' as she is very knowledgeable about cotton.

It looks very much like the cotton balls you buy. 

The reason they started harvesting this field on Sunday was because of rain on Monday...

JIT = Just In Time!

Fields here in Georgia are always big because work is done mechanically so it doesn't matter what length.

So this is the landscape, only half a mile from our home.

Showing my black Escada cotton jeans (ironically...) and wool jacket.

Pieter in his charcoal gray Ermenegildo Zegna suit from the Premium Outlets in Orlando, Florida.

He wears an Advent color shirt and tie...

Detail of how those cotton puffs are on the plant...

It is quite late for harvesting them on December 16, in our opinion but who are we to know anything about it?

This photo is taken from husband Pieter on Sunday, November 7, 1983... The VERY FIRST time we saw cotton ourselves; only 29 years ago!

This was quite an experience for holding it for the first time!

Only 29 years ago...

My hand showing one cotton boll that is not yet opened completely...

Hope you enjoyed this tour through rural Georgia for seeing what is growing on our fields.

Certainly this is not the fine, long staple, Egyptian Cotton that we use for our bed linens. 

American grown cotton is mainly short staple cotton.

But I must admit that I have no clue what this one will be used for... 

Thanks for your time!