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A few weeks ago at the flea market, I bought these clothespins and in my mind I saw them painted and tied with homespun. I had a nice visit this week from a new friend that I had never met face to face before. Kim suggested, when she saw the bags of them to "grubby" them. I had forgotten all about that process, so to the basement I went this morning to dig for my wax from the last time I did this and amazingly enough I walked right to it and picked it up. As I finished cleaning the house, I started the melting process. Just old candles melted together. And then began the dipping. I had no sticks of cinnamon so ground cinnamon and then some fresh ground coffee and nutmeg, some old allspice from the back of the cupboard and some pumpkin pie spice and it smelled yummy in the kitchen. All lined up and cooling. This was no quick process. Found some tags, some little wood pieces and some tealights. Let me tell you, if you have never done this before, you will be digging...