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Finally, temperature lowered and I managed to prepare a  set of candles  for this fall . Candles  are  great  for any  occasion ! Halloween🎃, Xmas🎄, B-days🎂, romantic dinners🥂 or relaxing nights🌃.  You can keep 'em for yourself or give them to family and friends as gifts! If you've never made candles before, but you're eager to try,  here you have 10 basic steps to follow. This is  not  a  comprehensive  guide and does  not  pretend to be  a  candle-making  course . 1)  weigh the wax  Do you want to know more about  waxes ? Follow this  LINK   2)  Melt it in a double boiler (bain-marie). Stir every now and then...    ⚠ Do not boil the wax ⚠  Never   ever  place the container with the wax directly on the stove! 3)   A t this point, y ou can add some color HERE , you have a post on candle dyes. ...

I had a very late request for Xmas candles 😓 ⏳⌚ 😓 , but the good thing is that I had been given 100% of freedom on the choice of colors, decorations, fragrance, container 😃🎉🎇 This year, I've been so into glass recycling that I've been using jam jars for almost all my container candles. I particularly love the jars from the French brand La Bonne Maman ( see HERE ) because they are big , easy to work with (you don't have to struggle to stick the wick holder to the bottom of the container) and original ! They have a screwable lid that helps to preserve the candle fragrance and protect the decorations on top. Last, but not least, they can be washed in the dishwasher and you can recycle them as many times as you want. For these candles I've used soy wax ( Click for an overview of waxes ), cinnamon fragrance  (which I've also used in other projects such as in  HERE  and  HERE ), a lead-free cotton-wick, and tiny decorations made of soy wax ...

One more request from a dear friend: candles that she could put on the table as Xmas favours! In particular, she wanted pillar candles with chunks on the  white/turquoise  hues.  She also asked for decorations m atching the colours of the candles and  having  snow flakes .  It took me a while before deciding what to do (it's much easier to use red, green, silver and gold when it comes down to Xmas things,😂😂😂 ahahaha)... ...and then I thought it would have been fun to use  the  bubble wrap stamping technique  to give the paper a snowy-like background! For the white bubbles: Dovecraft   Crystal White ink and Aladine   jasmine white embossing powder. For the light blue bubbles: turquoise ink  (from ArtNic, #20) and Artemio   clear   holographic  embossing powder .  I've created the snow flakes  with a puncher  from white Bristol card stock, a...

I've been recently asked to make a special candle for twin babies. Considering my new found love for card making, I decided to create a matching card as well. But let's start from the candle... I haven't been making candles for a while now (it's a pain over summer time!!!) and needed to re-order raw materials and stuff to stock up! That was fun too! This is a ' pillar candle with chunks ' I've already talked about these candles over the blog ( HERE ), but let me remind you something: They are great because they use the good scent throw of the soy wax and the hardness of paraffin, basically the best qualities of both!!! If you want to see other examples of these candles follow  THIS LINK Gummy bears are made with soy wax too and you can find pictures of the silicon moulds I've used  HERE For the card, I've used baby design paper and recycled buttons, and a sentiment from the Mama Elephant Stamps - Labeled M...

This is a sample pack with five different mini candles. From left to right: Candle #1:  b ees wax: coconut oil (80:20)  + cotton wick (lead free)  +  cinnamon candle fragrance Candle #2:  b ees wax: coconut oil (70:30)  + cotton wick (lead free)  +  coffee bean candle fragrance   Candle #3: 100% Soy wax + wooden wick + strawberry cream candle fragrance   Candle #4 : bees wax:coconut oil (70:30) + cotton wick (lead free)  + lavender candle fragrance   Candle #5: b ees wax: coconut oil (70:30)  + cotton wick (lead free) + l emongrass essential oil Each candle has been poured in a mini marmalade glass jar, carefully labeled (safety first!) and wrapped by me. Candle pouring Burning instructions on the bottom and labels with ingredients list Box making 

I tried to make swirls many many times... of course without succeeding! I don't know whether this time I can be satisfied with the result, but at least I prepared some nice candles that a french friend described as 'des morceaux  de ciel' (literally 'bits of sky' ). How to do this? Once I've seen a video (or maybe it was a blog/webpage) in which someone was using the following technique but with many colours all at the same time. 1) Melt and pour plain (no colours, some fragrance if you fancy it) soy wax in your containers 2) when the wax is firm, make some holes with the help of a wooden  skewer  or anything pointy. Holes should be as close as possible to the container's walls, and should be running along 3/4 of the candle. 3) drop some candle-specific liquid colour in the holes  4) heat  the container's wall  with a heat gun or a hair dryer. This will partially melt the wax allowing the colour to blend in. ...

...I haven't been making any candle since before Xmas time... but yesterday I was definitely inspired! The name of these candles comes from an ice cream I used to eat when I was a kid: Twister ! I absolutely wanted to try the cute ice cream mould I received, as a surprise gift together with my order, from  WhysperFairy Molds . The cone looks real isn't it? As always, it is all soy wax with a bit of painting...

Some time ago I bought this nice silicon moulds... I have already posted the Pannacotta candles with their tiny adorable fruits decorations, but I haven't shown you yet the results obtained with the Xmas-themed mould !    Here you can see a zoom in picture of the decorations I've made (a bit out of focus! hihihihi). They're made of soy wax and have been painted at a later stage. I've been preparing a lot of candles for customers and/or friend lately, but I also wanted to create a special Xmas edition for me and my beloved ones! Ladies and Gentlemen here you have the Xmas tree candles! This one below is a version without whipped top!

This is not the first time that I made my C affeccino candles, but this time I've used products from 4Candles and new glass containers of the famous French brand Duralex. Products: EcoSoya CB-Xcel Cocoa Brown Dye Flakes Escentscia Coffee Bean fragrance  and...  real coffee powder + edible golden flakes for the top!