16-year-old boy fatally shot outside Scarborough plaza identified
Police have identified a teenage boy who was fatally shot in Scarborough’s L’Amoreaux neighbourhood on Saturday afternoon.
Candles, already an integral part of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Eve, can be made even more special when they carry a personal touch. Try marbleizing them by hand, or simply using candlelight in creative ways.
Paula Lavender Tucker of Bellows Falls, Vermont, started marbleizing simple white candles about five years ago. Before that, she marbleized quilt fabrics. Both are for sale at her Etsy site, HippyDippyDyed.
Her marbleizing process is simple and inexpensive, and the results are mighty (directions below).
"You want to think about using contrasting colours," says Lavender Tucker. "Black and white are a stunning combination."
She recommends learning how to marbleize candles with only two or three colours, and the holidays carry traditional colour combinations: red, green and white for Christmas; blue and white for Hanukkah; red, green and black for Kwanzaa; and black, white and gold, or dark blue, light blue and white for New Year's Eve.
One easy way to display holiday candles is to wrap a small Mason or jelly jar with ribbon and insert a small pillar candle inside, says Oma Blaise Ford, executive editor of Better Homes & Gardens magazine. Accent them with seasonal items such as a small pine cone and a sprig of evergreen.
"You can customize the display for whatever holidays you're celebrating," she says.
This image provided by Paula Lavender Tucker shows three blue hand-dyed marbleized candles. (Paula Lavender Tucker via AP).
While marbleized candles -- tapers, pillars or spheres -- can decorate the home for Kwanzaa, traditional black, red and green candles are used in the holiday's seven-candle Kinara, or candle holder. The Kinara is lit daily during the holiday's seven days, from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1.
Erica Jones of Duluth, Georgia, sells 300 to 400 hand-carved Kinaras each year at her Etsy site, BlackandFIT, and at Walmart online. "There aren't too many things the Black community can say, `This celebrates our greatness.' This holiday does that," Jones says.
For a New Year's Eve party, Blaise Ford suggests filling jars with strings of tiny (called fairy) lights and tie the jars with velvet ribbon in shades of icy blue, winter white and pale pink. Wrap that in metallic star garland for extra sparkle.
"The added benefit here is that no one has to remember to blow out the candles after the midnight toast," Blaise Ford says.
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Police have identified a teenage boy who was fatally shot in Scarborough’s L’Amoreaux neighbourhood on Saturday afternoon.
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