Water Candles!!!

These water candles were really fun to make. The pillars were made from a paraffin wax with stearic acid added, no color and Apricot Freesia as the fragrance. The wax around the pillar was paraffin wax with vybar 103 and a bit of an orange color block. I am wondering if a pigment or liquid dye would have produced more vibrant colors? Many books suggested using micro wax but I did not have any on hand so I kept searching and found that someone had tried vybar 103 instead. Hope it works just as well. I can't wait to make some more of these!!!!!!

Toilet Paper Air Freshener and Floating Candles!!!

This is an example of what some of my students will make in this class. Pictured here is a toilet paper roll dipped in scented paraffin wax, three floater candles and three hand molded floater candles. I found that it is better to use an ivory or cream color for the toilet paper roll as it will blend in better with the whiteness of the toilet paper. The molded stars were made from the same wax as the toilet paper dip. The hand molded floating flowers were colored using a pink block and cut-n-carve was was used. It's always fun to be creative and use different waxes to see how they work! This will be a very fun class!!!

Hand Molded Floating Candles!!

These hand molded floating candles were a bit challenging to make. I used cut-n-carve wax and dyed it lightly with a pink color block. I did not use use any fragrance for these because some fragrances are not meant to be on the skin. These do take some practice but are really fun to make. I made one rose, two flowers, one pull apart flower and one very thin petaled flower. Timing is everything when making these flowers. If anyone needs some tips on how to make these just e-mail me. Happy Candle Floating!!!

Coffee Mug Soy Wax Candles!

A customer came to me and asked if I could fill some of her special mugs with wax (I used soy wax) and they turned out great. I filled theses with Coffee, Vanilla Pear and Chardonnay & Vanilla fragrances. I left the wick a bit long on these because she will be displaying them for a while. In soy wax candles, the soy wax tends to separate from the fragrance and raise up. If your wick is too short and this happens you may loose your wick. You can fix this problem by running a heat gun or blow dryer over it and the wax level will go back down. This is a great way to display your favorite mug!