Christmas Floating Candles

Christmas floating candles are perfect compliments to your holiday decorating. Floating candles are a must have accent for entertaining during the holiday season since most are unscented and made with food grade wax. They are a safe and practical way to add candlelight to all your Christmas festivities.

Where to Find Christmas Floating Candles 
Floating candles may be purchased at specialty candle shops and, during the holiday season, at Christmas stores. Many party stores also carry floating candles year round. Floating candles can also be found online at:
Candle Styx has holly floating candles that can be displayed singly or as a group. They work perfectly in a center dish on your holiday table and have a 12 hour burn time.
Christmas People sells personalized holiday floating candles that make a great remembrance of the Christmas season. Each candle is engraved with the family name or your choice of words along with the year and the word Christmas. The personalized candle can be accented with a variety of holiday embellishments, such as holly wreaths, floating glitter and miniature Christmas ornaments. They make great hostess and family gifts that will surely be treasured.
Candle Boutique offers a large selection of Christmas floating candles. They have designs such as peppermints, poinsettias, snowflakes, holly, Christmas trees, wreaths, snowmen and polar bears.
Crafted Candles has a unique selection of holiday floating candles. They feature designs such as chestnut leaves, snowflake, snowman, Santa, Christmas cookie, gingerbread man, holly leaf, holly wreath, poinsettia and holiday tree.
Wedding Flower and More sells floating candles in shapes such as stars, poinsettias and snowmen. They sell them separately or as part of a kit.

Uses for Christmas Candles 
There are endless possibilities for decorating with floating candles. Most commonly, floating candles will be used as part of a holiday table centerpiece. Creating a floating candle centerpiece for your Christmas table is quite simple. All you need to do is place a decorative bowl on a mirrored base in the center of your table. Add water and your candles then accent with festive touches such as candy, ribbon or glitter. Light the candles before your guests arrive.Floating candles can be used in wine glasses or any other decorative container you choose. Place a few around the room to cast light and add ambiance to your party. Why not wrap up a floating candle in netting and tie with a Christmas bow to use as a place setting on your holiday table? Add your guests' names to a tag and they will not only have a festive place setting but a fun gift to take home with them.
Candles make a quick and easy Christmas gift. They are perfect to give a hostess or use for a Secret Santa exchange. With all the designs available, you will be able to give a gift that is fun and festive and sure to be enjoyed during the holiday season. Wrap up floating candles as a group and give with a decorative bowl or throw some in to accent another gift you are giving.
No matter how you choose to decorate with your Christmas floating candles, they will add a special touch to any table or room.

Final Thoughts 
Since many floating candles come in shapes that appeal to children such as snowmen and Christmas cookie designs, pay close attention when you have lit candles around younger children. They may be attracted to the fun shapes and not realize that they are not meant to be played with. As with any candle, do not leave them unattended.

Best Candle Scents for Winter

Candle scents vary from one company to another as well as from season to season. Some businesses only run certain smells at a particular time of year. This is because you can count on some to be super popular when the air starts to become cooler and the days begin to shorten. This is partially marketing and the demand for different candle scents when the fall and winter seasons come.
One of the best ways to get your house and family in the mood for fall and winter festivities is to use some of these particular smells to get them in the mood. But what candle scents really go with fall and winter? It is quite simple to get a couple of the biggest and best that companies have to offer and get your house ready for the cooler seasons.






Candle Scents Number One: Apple Cinnamon
Apple cinnamon is one of the first candle scents that you will see hit the store shelves as the children get ready to go back to school. You can think of the days that you used to take an apple into your teacher. It will also remind you or get you into thinking about picking apples out in the orchard. This is one of the basic fall and winter candle scents that everyone should have.

Candle Scents Number Two: Gingerbread
There is something soothing about the smell of fresh gingerbread. You may be able to bake these tasty treats at any time of year, but their fragrance of those spices is something that really goes great with the fall and winter. You can easily make your family think that you have spent all day baking when you choose this one.

Candle Scents Number Three: Pumpkin Pie
You may start to notice that a lot of the best candle scents for fall and winter have to do with baking. That is probably because most people do not want to turn on their ovens in the hot summer weather. They wait until that first crisp autumn day to get out their favorite recipes and get to baking. Pumpkin pie is one of those great baked goods. You never see a Thanksgiving table without a pumpkin pie on it. Capture that image by burning this fragrance.

Candle Scents Number Four: Pine
As the fall weather starts to become colder, you will see more places starting to sell fresh pine wreaths and other decorations. This is because everyone loves to get the smell of fresh pine through out their home. You can accomplish this same task by choosing this candle scents for your home. All the smell without the mess of fresh pine needles on your floor.

Candle Scents Number Five: Autumn Leaves
Now this is a smell that you can not get into your house in many ways. Autumn leaves is that great smell that you get when you are out raking or walking past a field of fallen leaves. The best way to bring this festive fall feeling into your home is with a candle.