Posts Tagged ‘candle making’

3
Feb

How To Make Candles

   Posted by: admin   in candle making projects

It has been a while since the idea sparkled into my mind of creating my own candles and, as it is often the case, when we want to start something new, we delay in getting was is needed to start it going.

So my desire of creating candles did not transform itself into a “Let’s do it !” momentum until some months past or so. Better late than never, right ?

My first hands-on experience was reported here on the blog, live with photographs, showing the results, good and bad, of these first steps, and it was so much fun doing it, that it got me hooked !

I therefore invite you to join me in the journey of making candles for fun and, why not, maybe one day for profit ? But for now, being in the learning curve, I will concentrate on following the step-by-step guide that I just purchased, written by Dolores Attwood, and will share each of these steps here .

Along with her E-book came three bonuses:

Bonus 1 : How to make massage and soy candles

Bonus 2 : Make Money from your Hobby

Bonus 3 : List of Candle Making Supplies Manufacturers

We will go through these bonuses together as well.

In the next article, we will start by concentrating on the equipment and supplies needed for candle making.

Stay tuned !

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17
Jan

Happy New Year !

   Posted by: admin   in Uncategorized

A New Year has started and I would like to wish you all a very happy & successful year in 2009.

I will make it a goal and commit to it, to bring you always quality content articles that will allow all of us to more deeply get involved into the candles and candlemaking craft, be it for fun, for profit or for both.

I also would like to invite you to participate in the discussion by replying with your comments, questions, ideas, opinions and suggestions that you may have on any given topic related to candles and candle making .

Cheers to a fun and enjoyable journey !

Janice

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Believe it or not ! I finally came to experiment a second time around the creation of Taper candles with the recipe provided in the Complete Candlemaker Book & Kit.

The last attempt was reported here in the blog post titled :Candles Kits review : The Complete Candlemaker Book & Kit - part 4

I followed the same recipe, but this time , kept the heat of the melted wax at 170 degrees F instead of 190 degrees F. That was my initial mistake.

You may say, when viewing the photos below that they are “miniature” tapers and you are absolutely right. My dipping vat was not tall enough to allow regular size tapers. But you get the idea.

First, dip 3 to 4 second in melting vat Read the rest of this entry »

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25
Oct

Books on Candles

   Posted by: admin   in Books on Candles, candle kits

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