More Candle Making

Nate and Ollyce came over last night for supper. After supper Ollyce made some candles. :) So here are more pictures.

These should be at the end (sorry) but better out of order then not at all. These three are the candles that Ollyce made. The first is Hollyberry.

This white one is really pretty cause we put sparkles on top.

This is the candle that Nate was trying to make stripes with. You can actually see some stripes. But instead of being white with red stripes, it is pink with red stripes.

16 drops of red die

Pouring the wax into the jar

The finished product of the first candles we made. I don't much like the brown.

Bottles of fragrance (Christmas Cheer, Cappuccino Mocha, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Sweet Snow, Cool Mocha and Hollyberry)

Heating the jars in the oven (so that they are not cold when you put the hot wax in it)

Nate wanted to try putting stripes on the sides with red die.

Soy Candles

Mom ordered I think 50 pounds of soy wax to make candles with. She also ordered all the jars, wicks, stickers, fragrance, die etc. Everything you need to make your own candles. So the evening that everything arrived we started making a a few. It was fun but we need to figure out how many drops of die to put in the wax. When we thought we were getting a deep red...we got pink (after it dried) and when we thought we were getting a fairly dark brown...we got a light brown (that is not a very pretty) color. :( But anyway here are a few pictures.Melting the wax

Waiting for the wax to dry.

We put the extra wax in votives.

The scale that we weighed the wax with.

And again, letting the wax dry.