Every yr for Valentine's twenty-four hours my immature lady joins me to create a projection I tin portion alongside all of yous together with she tin give her friends for Valentine.
Cake pops together with
clay charms were done inwards previous years, together with when she talked to me almost her plans for this yr I was actually excited because it was something I convey never done. Candles!
She explained to me she had seen many videos on how to brand candles using crayons, that she loved the colors together with it was something she wanted to brand to give to her friends. Well, I boundary correct inwards :)
An immediate trip to Michael's together with the Dollar shop followed. We got wax, scents, wicks, drinking glass votives... All inwards all it was similar 30 something bucks spent together with nosotros hurried dorsum dwelling identify to start working.
We were happy to
get rid use the many crayons we've accumulated throughout the years.
She took accuse of the project, I was exactly photographing the process. I was surprised when I saw her using Super gum to attach the wick to the votive. I couldn't assist but mean value of how expensive would it last if all the candle makers utilisation this sort of gum for the same purpose. She re-assured me it was rubber together with fifty-fifty ameliorate than anything else because that sort of gum was pretty rigid (yeah, I know).
The crayons got broken together with each color was placed within a newspaper cup.
The large bar of wax nosotros bought had to last broken into piffling pieces, well, nosotros didn't utilisation all the bar, non fifty-fifty a quarter of it. The bars of scent were also broken downwards into smaller chunks.
Wax together with scent pieces were added to the crayons. When I asked for how much wax together with scent to crayon ratio she was using .... Her reply was "Oh, it doesn't matter, the videos said a couplet of chunks are OK" hmmm really?
I allow her to continue, after all SHE was inwards charge! But a minute after when she told me it was fourth dimension to melt all the ingredients inwards the microwave, I said NO! I exactly pictured myself cleaning wax off my microwave walls together with I had to halt that from happening, thus the stove was seat to proficient utilisation ;)
One color at a time, waiting for it to dry out together with and thus onto the side yesteryear side color.
Here she was waiting patiently, snapping close-ups of the whole process.
Well, I was happy, the votives looked actually prissy :)
The pictures couldn't last whatsoever better!
But wait! she said. I desire to odour them, let's lit at to the lowest degree one, together with thus nosotros did. And hither comes the most
of import lesson nosotros learned:
Our beautiful candles didn't lit! :-(
We couldn't fifty-fifty odour them, the wick burnt out means also soon.
You tin clearly meet the divergence against a regular candle votive.
After looking for answers this is what I found:
Crayons are colored alongside pigments, together with those pigments don't dissolve inwards the wax, they exactly float around. As the wax melts, together with is carried through the wick to the flame, the pigments clog the wick :( The best means to color wax is yesteryear using dye, it dissolves into the wax together with won't clog the wick. Kind of upsetting :( but oh well, nosotros learned lots ;)
You tin cheque other Valentine projects that convey worked :)
