The modern light bulb is of course a wonderful convenience. Nights would seem infinitely long without it. The common electric light bulb enables us to work, play games, read, cook, do homework, and hundreds of other activities, when without it (and if for some reason gas lights or lamps hadn’t been invented) we would have ...
As a teacher in Thailand, I learned many useful things as I had to know how to do them myself if I was going to teach my students. One of the things I learned was how to scent wax. In Thailand, candles are used everywhere so practically every Thai adult has, at one time or ...
If you’re like me, you love candles. I love to wonder into a candle shop and just smell. I love how a well made candle can scent an entire room, how they can turn a house into a home. It’s easy to make your own candles, if you know where to look for instructions and ...
Without visiting a huge party supply store your choices are rather limited when it comes to purchasing ordinary stick candles for a birthday cake. The tiny pillar candles are sold in boxes of several but are usually only available in a few colors. Those kinds of candles had their day but have become somewhat boring ...
If you are going to engage in this ancient craft, I highly recommend you do not go to the local craft store and start buying up candle crafting products. Not only are they obscenely overpriced and tacky, they are quite toxic. No laws have yet been made to ensure the safety of consumers who buy ...
Making candles isn’t my thing, but decorating them can be a fun and crafty experience. That’s what I decided after I saw a few fancy-schmancy, designer candles in a department store. They were carved and elegant, shimmery and sparkly; but they were too expensive for something that would melt away in an hour or two. ...
Recently, I decided I wanted to create a line of products to go along with my radio show. I decided I would make candles, potpourri tarts and other items that make your world smell wonderful and sensual. As I began searching the internet for supplier, I found that Nature’s Garden Candles stood out above the ...
Candle-makers usually use different wax additives to achieve different effects with their candles. Below is a summary on the different types of additives available and what their purposes are. An animal fat by-product called stearic acid, or stearine is used to achieve a harder set wax once the candle cools. This is particularly useful for ...
While thinking of Pringle’s potato chips, the images that come to mind are uniformly shaped chips in unique tubular containers. It seems a shame to throw away perfectly good Pringle’s potato chip canisters, so don’t throw them away. Pringle’s potato chip containers have a number of fantastic uses. The following creative uses are great ways ...
