Spring Candles - Easter - St. Patrick's Day

At CANDLE-BOUTIQUE.COM we love the spring season. It is a time of renewal and the warmer weather makes all of us feel better.

In addition to our many flower floating candles, we offer many other items for the spring season.

We have listed a few of our favorites below:

For St. Patrick's Day we offer our floating leprechaun candles and our floating shamrock candles are sure to make any occasion festive. Our floating shamrock candles come in two different sizes and are covered in glitter.

We also have a shamrock votive candle holder that will hold either a votive candle or a tealight candle. They make wonderful favors for a party or decorations for a table.

For the Easter season, we love our bunny candles. They are 3 5/8" tall and burn 3 - 4 hours each. They come by an assorted dozen - four each of pink, yellow and purple. Place a couple in a basket filled with raffia or other decorative filling and you will have the cutest Easter basket in town!Be sure to check out our "Easter" section for more ideas - we offer floating candles and other items - some of them can be custom colored to match any theme or color scheme.

The other thing we like is our yellow long stem rose candles - they can be used in a centerpiece arrangement, as favors or as a give away to customers, friends or clientele. Use a business card, write or type out any information you wish to convey such as business address, website or products, fold the business card in half, punch a hole in the corner, and tie the card to the long stem rose candle with ribbon, string or yarn.

Facts about St. Patrick's Day Holiday
St. Patrick’s Day is observed on March 17 because that is the feast day of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. It is believed that he died on March 17 in the year 461 AD. It is also a worldwide celebration of Irish culture and history. St. Patrick’s Day is a national holiday in Ireland, and a provincial holiday in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

In Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day, people traditionally wear a small bunch of shamrocks on their jackets or caps. Children wear orange, white and green badges, and women and girls wear green ribbons in their hair.

Many cities have a St. Patrick’s Day parade. Dublin, the capital of Ireland, has a huge St. Patrick’s Day festival from March 15-19, that features a parade, family carnivals, treasure hunt, dance, theatre and more. In North American, parades are often held on the Sunday before March 17. Some paint the yellow street lines green for the day! In Chicago, the Chicago River is dyed green with a special dye that only lasts a few hours. There has been a St. Patrick’s Day parade in Boston, Massachusetts since 1737. Montreal is home to Canada’s longest running St. Patrick’s Day parade, which began in 1824.

St. Patrick was born in 385 AD somewhere along the west coast of Britain, possibly in the Welsh town of Banwen. At age 16, he was captured and sold into slavery to a sheep farmer. He escaped when he was 22 and spent the next 12 years in a monastery. In his 30s he returned to Ireland as a Christian missionary. He died at Saul in 461 AD and is buried at Downpatrick.Facts about Easter:Easter [A.S. Eastre, name of a spring goddess], chief Christian feast, commemorating the resurrection of Jesus after his crucifixion.

Facts about Easter

In the West, Easter is celebrated on the Sunday following the full moon next after the vernal equinox thus, it falls between Mar. 22 and Apr. 25. The Orthodox Eastern Church calculates Easter somewhat differently, so that the Orthodox Easter usually comes several weeks after that of the West. Many dates of the Christian calendar are dependent on Easter. For most Christians there is a preparatory period of penitence, beginning (in the West) with Septuagesima Sunday, 17 days before Lent and ending in Holy Week. With Easter begins the paschal season, liturgically marked with rejoicing; Alleluia is often said, and the paschal candle is set up. The five Sundays of this time begin with Low Sunday. They are followed by Ascension Day (Thursday; see under Ascension and, 10 days later, by Pentecost. The Sunday after Pentecost is Trinity Sunday. Until Advent the weeks are counted from Pentecost or Trinity. A feature of Roman Catholic life is the Easter duty, by which every member is required to receive communion sometime between Ash Wednesday and Trinity Sunday. Painting and rolling eggs and wearing new clothes are Easter customs; there is no development of social festivities comparable with those of Christmas.

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