Tuesday 17 December 2013

The Beauty Shop and Christmas Festivities

The Beauty Shop in Family Farm is one of my favourite recent additions to the game.  There are a number of crafting buildings in Family Farm now but it is the Workshop and the Beauty Shop that allow one to make items that actually can be placed as decorations on the farm.  The others basically offer the option solely to create items to be sold.  The values may be very good, but it is far more fun to make pretty decorations that can be enjoyed on the farm.

For Hallowe'en, both the Beauty Shop and the Workshop offers a number of decorations.  At Thanksgiving, there were a couple of gorgeous candles with an Autumn theme  that are suitable to be used throughout the year.    For Christmas, there are some fantastic candles, including a darling ring of angels and a very elegant silver deer.


You will need to collect a fair number of ingredients to make these candles.  In most cases, it is a two-stage process, requiring the creation of a basic candle first before you can make the elaborate decorated item.

The basic candle that is needed most often is the Ivory Candle.  To make this, you will need the following ingredients:

Ivory Candle:
  Ingredients: 5 Beeswax, 10 Vanilla, 10 Milk

The Ivory Candle is an Ingredient in many beautiful Decorations, including:

Beautiful Fall Candle:
  Ingredients: 10 Violets, 4 Ivory Candles, 10 Eucalyptus Leaves



The secondary Candle that is required most often to craft a Decoration is the Citrus Sensation Candle which requires the following:

Citrus Sensation Candle:
  Ingredients:  2 Ivory Candle, 5 Mandarins, 5 Oranges

With the Citrus Sensation Candle, you can craft:

Elf on the Shelf Candle:
  Ingredients: 2 Citrus Sensation Candles, 10 Cranberry Sauce, 10 Cantaloupe

Reindeer Candle Holder:
  Ingredients: 3 Citrus Sensation Candle, 10 Iron Sheets
  N.B.  The Iron Sheets are produced in the Workshop with Horseshoes

Other lovely Candle Decorations include:

Happy Harvest Candle:
  Ingredients:  10 Pumpkins, 2 Dazzling Daisy Candles, 10 White Grapes


There are many other Decorations that are not Candles but can be placed on the Farm to add to its beauty and charm.  One of my favourites is Rose Water.

Rose Water:
  Ingredients: 2 Black Roses, 5 Purple Roses

The only problem with this Recipe is that the Black Rose requires RC to purchase.   When unlocked, you will be able to grow it only for three days before it will become 'locked' again.  One therefore should grow as many Black Roses as possible within that time period and save them for crafting.

Two of the items that appear often as ingredients in the Crafting buildings are Beeswax, previously mentioned, and Mud.  Beeswax is produced in the Bee Box.  You can purchase an unfinished Bee Box for 7000 Coins.  You then must obtain materials to complete it before it will produce.  Mud is produced by the Pie Train Pig Coop.  You can purchase an unfinished Pie Train Pig Coop for 9000 Coins.