These are Peppermint Patty Scented Snowball Votives! The votives are made from pillar palm wax. I added peppermint patty scent and no color. Then I melted a pillar paraffin wax with some steric acid. I added peppermint patty scent and no color. I waited for the paraffin wax to congeal and started to whip it like icing with a fork. When it started to get clumpy, but still very hot to the touch, I gobbed it on my votive. I made sure to get every inch of the sides and on the top. If all parts of the sides aren't covered well, then you could have a blow out and have hot wax spilling out from the side of your candle. This votive burned beautifully! It burned slow with a nice steady flame. The palm wax, a clean burning wax, burned and left a soft shell that was the paraffin wax. These still need to be treated like a pillar candle when burned and fold in the edges of the candle when warm if needed. It also needs to be burned on a candle holder in case there is any wax spillage. These are going to make wonderful holiday gifts!
I made this Coffee Bean Hurricane Candle for my friends birthday. I used hurricane paraffin wax with a melt point of 156 F and added steric acid to it. I also made Chai Tea scented soy wax tea lights to go with it. This way you are burning a clean burning candle inside. I added a layer of rice to the inside bottom of the hurricane candle after I made it. The tea lights sit on top of the rice and absorb the heat from the metal tea light container. This ensures the tea light will not melt the bottom inside of the hurricane candle.
This was my first hurricane candle! I have always wanted to try one of these. I used a paraffin wax with a melt point of 160F. I should have added some micro but did not have any at the time, so I will see what happens with out it. As you can see the edge is uneven and ugly. There was shrinkage (have to figure out why) and I had to pour the wax out from the middle of the candle after the wall appeared solid and there was a skim of wax on the center top. To even it out I turned it upside down on a skillet to smooth it out. I also put some rice in the middle of the hurricane candle, so when the tea light burns it will not melt the bottom of the hurricane. I haven't tried this before but I heard it works. Next on my list is one made with coffee beans!!!!
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!!!!!!
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!!!.jpg)
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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!!!
