Everlasting Blooms
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The year changed. God remained.
An Advent gathering inviting you to reflect on the year behind you, recognize God's presence through every season, and prepare your heart for the coming of Christ.
B L O O M I N G G R A C E P R E S E N T S
A Year Remembered. A Faith That Remains.
Every year holds a story. Some chapters bring gratitude and joy. Others carry grief, waiting, unexpected changes, and questions we may still be holding.
Everlasting Blooms invites you to slow down and remember the year you actually lived, making room for every season without needing to explain or resolve it all.
Through Scripture, personal reflection, and meaningful creative experiences, we'll remember where we've been and reflect on the God who remained with us through it all.
An Evergreen Wreath — A Year Remembered
Each month becomes part of a larger whole. As you add the greenery and choose natural elements that hold meaning, your wreath becomes a reflection of the year you've experienced: its joys, challenges, ordinary moments, and reminders of God's presence.
A Soy Candle — Immanuel, God With Us
As we turn our attention toward the birth of Christ, create a candle as a reminder of Immanuel. Whatever the year has held, God's presence remains a constant source of hope and faith.
Blooming Grace makes spiritual truths tangible.
Through Scripture, worship, reflection, and creativity, Everlasting Blooms creates space to recognize God's presence in the year behind us and trust Him with the seasons still ahead.
Come As You Are
Everlasting Blooms welcomes the woman whose year was joyful, the woman who is ready to leave it behind, and the woman still trying to understand what God was doing.
You will not be asked to call every hardship good, explain a private month, or find a tidy lesson in every loss. The Holy Spirit's protection does not mean believers avoid pain; we remember His saving work, comfort, guidance, conviction, and faithful presence.
Come alone, bring a friend, gather your women's group, or host Everlasting Blooms at your church. Quiet presence is full participation. Every reflection and sharing invitation is optional.
Experience Everlasting Blooms Your Way
Personal / Solo — $15
Includes the Solo Devotional, Participant Reflection Workbook and illustrated Creative Experiences and Preparation Guide for a quiet experience at your own pace.
Group — $30 per host purchase
Includes the Group Devotional, workbook, illustrated Creative Guide, Group Host Guide and widescreen slideshow PDF. Hosting guidance covers invitations, décor, setup, demonstrations, brief prompts, accommodations and cleanup.
Also includes an editable event flyer, nine promotional images and nine silent promotional videos: meal, crafting and devotional-reflection scenes in square, portrait and story layouts.
Host preparation and guided-hosting recordings, the devotional video and both craft tutorials are Coming soon. The written guides work without them.
Group is priced per host purchase, not per attendee. Supplies, printing, music access and a printed journal are separate. The Farm Guide remains private. Portal access requires sign-in and a verified purchase; a QR code does not unlock paid materials.
Everlasting Blooms — Personal Retreat Download
From Everlasting to Everlasting
$15 for one person’s digital retreat. Slow down, remember your year with God and create two meaningful keepsakes at your own pace. You do not need to have attended another Blooming Grace retreat.
Your Personal Packet Includes
Solo Devotional PDF: a warm welcome, exact Scripture readings, Israel’s wilderness journey, the memorial stones, the Magi’s journey to Jesus, the Way Maker song moment, reflection and prayer.
Participant Reflection Workbook PDF: month-by-month remembrance, optional questions and journal pages at the end.
Creative Experiences and Preparation Guide PDF: supplies, preparation, realistic instructional pictures, complete numbered steps, practical safety, troubleshooting, cooling, finishing and care.
Your Two Creative Experiences
Make an Evergreen Advent Wreath from twelve wired bundles of fresh greens—one for each month—then add meaningful accessories. Make one Poured Soy Container Candle in candle-making glass as a reminder of Immanuel, God with us. The books guide you between the story, making stages and reflection. Quiet participation and unanswered questions are welcome.
Video Support — Coming Soon
A devotional video and tutorial for each craft are planned for the Learning Library. They are not available to watch yet. The written retreat works independently; no video is required.
Delivery and What to Gather
Your ZIP contains the three separate PDFs. The combined 83-page Personal Packet PDF is available through your purchased retreat portal. Sign in with the account associated with your verified purchase. Scanning the portal QR does not unlock paid content.
This is the Solo edition. Group hosting instructions, the group slideshow and advertising resources belong to the separate $30 Group Retreat Download.
Physical supplies, printing, music access and a printed journal are separate. Gather your own supplies or check the optional $49.50-per-person supply kit plus shipping. Digital workbook pages are included; a printed journal is optional.
For personal use; please do not resell or redistribute the digital files. The private Internal Farm Guide is not included.
Making and Care
Display the candle unlit in the wreath. Keep botanical-decorated candles unlit. Before burning a suitable plain candle, remove it completely from the wreath and use a stable heat-resistant surface at least 12 inches from greenery and other combustibles. Follow the selected materials’ cooling and curing directions.
Choose Your Digital Retreat
Everlasting Blooms Supply Kit
Materials for one participant’s Evergreen Advent Wreath and Poured Soy Container Candle. $49.50 per person, plus shipping. Preorder at least one month ahead. The devotional and optional journal are separate purchases.
WREATH MATERIALS
One Aodaer 12-inch wire frame; one full Ferraycle green 22-gauge paddle-wire spool; about 5 lb fresh mixed greens; five dried orange slices; five dried lime slices; ten cinnamon sticks; five pinecones; ten individual wired berries in one color; and one ribbon or bow.
CANDLE MATERIALS
One YJHSS candle-making glass with lid and compatible wick, wick sticker and wick support; SACATR soy wax; two craft sticks; one flower-card portion of pressed botanicals; 2 fl oz Mod Podge Matte; one brush; and one 15 mL amber bottle filled with pine oil. The dye packing portion and candle suitability of the selected oil require confirmation before dispatch.
PACKED AMOUNTS AND MAKING
The 15 mL packed oil is separate from the measured one-candle dose. The 16 oz wax purchasing portion is a weight, not the jar’s fluid capacity; establish safe fill and headspace using the Creative Guide and supplier directions. Unscented remains an option. Provide heating and measuring equipment, cutters, shears, pliers and table protection.
Fresh greens are packed in a lightly misted bag without standing water, separate from dry supplies and glass. Open promptly and keep cool. Shipping destinations and availability depend on the greenery shipping checks; no delivery-life guarantee is offered.
REMEMBER AND CREATE
Remember the year month by month, assemble the wreath, add meaningful accessories and listen to Way Maker. Make the candle near the end with the Immanuel lesson, leaving it cooling through reflection and closing. Keep the melter unscented and add suitable measured scent individually.
Display one unlit glass candle in the flat wreath’s center. Keep botanical-decorated candles unlit. Before burning a suitable plain candle, remove it completely from the wreath and place it on a stable, heat-resistant surface at least 12 inches from greenery and other combustibles.
Supply Kit
The Everlasting Blooms supply kit is $49.50 per person, plus shipping. Preorder at least one month ahead.
Wreath materials: one Aodaer 12-inch wire frame, one full Ferraycle green 22-gauge paddle-wire spool, about 5 lb fresh mixed greens, five dried orange slices, five dried lime slices, ten cinnamon sticks, five pinecones, ten individual wired berries in one color, and one ribbon or bow.
Candle materials: one candle-making glass with lid and compatible wick, wick sticker and support, soy wax, two craft sticks, one flower-card portion of pressed botanicals, 2 fl oz Mod Podge Matte, one brush, and one amber bottle filled with 15 mL pine oil. The packed oil is separate from the measured dose for one candle. Check the current listing for product details and any pending packing specifications.
Fresh greens are included in a lightly misted bag without standing water, separate from dry supplies and glass. Open promptly and keep cool. Shipping availability depends on the destination and greenery shipping checks.
Provide the heating and measuring equipment, cutters, shears, pliers and table protection listed in the Creative Guide. The optional journal and digital devotional are separate purchases.
The farm retreat is $80 per person. Reserve retreat places and supply kits at least one month in advance.
Make room for your own story with the printed Everlasting Blooms Participant Reflection Workbook, created for December’s Blooming Grace retreat.
Remember the year month by month, notice God’s presence and bring him both gratitude and unanswered questions. Use the pages on your own or alongside a group. Writing and sharing are optional; listening and quiet reflection are welcome.
Inside
Twenty pages of reflection and journaling.
Distinct monthly questions about the year you actually lived.
Connections to Israel’s wilderness journey, the memorial stones and the Magi.
Reflection after Way Maker and a keepsake prayer.
Journal pages at the end.
Remember a month, then return to the Creative Guide to tie and attach that month’s wreath bundle. After the wreath, accessories and song, make one poured soy candle with the Immanuel lesson. Let it cool undisturbed through reflection and closing.
The workbook holds your reflections. Detailed craft instructions belong in the Creative Experiences and Preparation Guide. Scent is an optional creative choice and has no spiritual power.
This listing is a printed workbook for one participant. Supplies and the Digital Retreat Experience are separate. The digital workbook is included in both customer packets.
Participant Workbook
December pages for your ongoing Blooming Grace journal
Wilderness, twelve-stones, and wise-men reflections
Twelve-month remembrance prompts
Scripture and closing litany
Craft meaning and Advent safety
Designed for individuals or groups
Gather Your Supplies
Use the Creative Experiences and Preparation Guide to gather materials for an at-home or group experience.
Fresh mixed greens, a wire wreath frame, green paddle wire, cutters, floral shears and gloves.
Candle-making glass, compatible soy container wax and wick, double-sided wick sticker and wick-centering support.
Suitable wax-heating equipment, thermometer, scale, pouring tools and measured compatible oil, if desired.
A protected work area, undisturbed cooling space and transport packaging.
Your chosen wreath accessories and lawful access to Way Maker.
Keep the melter unscented. Add suitable scent only to your own candle glass. Follow the selected materials’ directions for amounts, temperatures, cooling and curing. The guide includes both wire-frame and farm manual-clamp methods.
Ready to Begin?
You do not know what the next year will hold. But you can enter it remembering the God who led through the wilderness, the Savior to whom the star pointed, and the Rock who remains when storms come.
God was with us. God is with us. God will lead us.
Remember His faithfulness. Trust His unseen work. Follow His light. Prepare to stand.
