Dec 23 2008
Candle making
I just needed to show you how the candles turned out! First off, here is how I melted the candles. I didn’t have a coffee can which in the future, I’ll probably use one just so I can put lots more in at a time. But this pie pan worked for this. I am not sure how many we made, I’m not sure how many candles we used, but we used a lot and got rid of a lot of old candles to make new ones!
So here are the candles! I couldn’t get just the right picture, but here they are. And you know what, this is only a small sampling of them! My friend Amanda came over and she made her own candles too so we made a lot!
Let me tell you what we learned. Number one, a coffee can would work better, but no harm done this time. Number two, do the candles in layers. I didn’t think anything of it except the way they dried after we poured the wax to the top, it made a hole in the middle so we had to refill them. No problem there except it just looked weird on some of them.
Number three, if you melt several colors of birthdya candles to get the wicks, they make an ugly color of wax that we didn’t like! That was a fun one! LOL! Number four, we lit a couple of large candles in glass containers to get the wax from them. These take forever so unless you want to wait all day to get anything from them, they are a pain!
For the wicks, we did use old tea lights wicks and we used the wicks from old birthday candles that we weren’t going to use again. It all turned out great, I think! But the bad thing is, I still have about six leftover! I suppose I can use them myself!
These make great gifts and they are a great way to recycle. The good thing is, you can reuse these over and over again. Just melt more of those old candles!
