candle making!

so last Christmas i got a Michael gift card from my aunt and uncle and i bought candle making supply’s, and almost a year later I’ve finally used them! i just didn’t have anything to make a candle in previously, but i hit up the dollar tree with a friend of mine and picked some cute little glass containers.  i also decided to document my first real candle making experience.

these were the containers i picked up at the dollar store, they are pretty thick glass, i was happy i was able to find something of decent quality there. i bought three, but only had enough soy wax to make two, oh well. one more to make another time i suppose 🙂

the soy-wax before i melted it down and added the color

the first one i made was green, i one of the next pictures you’ll see how much lighter it was once the candle cooled and hardens

the next one was a teal blue color (mostly because i couldn’t get the leftover green wax out of the container i was melting it in, so i had to pick another wax color that wouldn’t make a murky brown when mixed with it, haha) also cooled to a much lighter color

the finished cooled candles, not exactly perfect, but i love them! there are some darker bits in both from where the colored wax didn’t melt completely, probably my fault for not getting it to exactly 175 degrees, ill know better for next time. i cant wait to make more with different scents, i just went for standard vanilla on this one but I’ll venture into other scented territories next time.

sadly the Christmas knitting was never completed, so i failed terribly this year. well i guess i shouldn’t say it was never completed, cause i did finish one fabulous hat that has a button on it, but other one i was making turned out incredibly small and probably wouldn’t even fit a child, so i didn’t finish it. i did make a pattern from the new issue of knitty already, duet. It came out quite good, but i didn’t check my gauge so i’m really not sure if its the proper size for a human either, my bad. i really need to start doing swatches for things like hats apparently.

I’m not sure I’ll update again before Christmas, so Merry Christmas to my 5 (if that) readers! haha 🙂