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  1. Thanks Javaeboy, I have a Lowe's only a few blocks away from my house. I'll give it a try!!
  2. Are you sure they're candles? Cause they're making me hungry...
  3. Wow, beautiful work! Answer a question from a noob, how do you get the design on the candle?
  4. ^ That's what I was thinking with the fishing line, which I actually have! My embeds are not very heavy but they do not have a loop to get the fishing line through, so I gotta get creative. In my experiment candle, I poured gel about halfway through, waited like 10 minutes, placed the embeds on top, and poured some more. They actually stayed, but they were little. I'm not sure if bigger ones will stay. I've heard people talk using glue guns to stick the wick in. But if you put the candle in the oven later on to get the air bubbles out, will it melt the hold from the glue gun? It certainly melts with the stick-um I used, although I suspect that if I let it cool again and don't touch it, the sticky will get hard again... not sure.
  5. Thanks Jeanie, you've been great help. I'm off to make something this week. Hopefully I can coax the gel into holding my embeds in the middle of the jar, lol.
  6. These are very nice!! I agree with the person who said they're too pretty to burn! lol
  7. Hi Kitn, thanks for the welcome. I'm looking forward to contribute more on the board. Jeanie, thanks a lot again for your input. My second candle was totally clear -mind you, full of tiny bubbles, but that's easier to solve I think. I know about stirring with a metal spoon instead of a wooden one, but is it true that stirring a lot causes more bubbles? I know what you mean about eventually buying better/higher quality gel, and I probably will in the future. I just didn't want to experiment with the "nice" gel, if you know what I mean! lol
  8. Hi Jeanie, thanks for your reply. I did get the FO from Michael's and it said it was gel safe. I'm not sure what low density means in relationship with FO, but I'm guessing that I used too much fragrance. If so, is there any way to salvage the used gel? Can I re-melt it and add more gel? Also, how do you guys usually measure the amount of gel for the container? The embeds were fine in the hot gel. In fact, when I melted the gel for the second time I didn't see one little clear bead and it got into the pan with the gel... and it took the heat like a champion!!
  9. Hello everyone, I've been looking for a community place to talk about my latest hobby: candle making! I am particularly drawn to gel candles, they're so beautiful! I'm excited to meet new people and learn the millions of things I'm sure there are to learn about candles. There's so much to read on the internet but nearly all sources say something different, and most of them don't even have the experience to back them up, so I thought I'd try a place where people actually get their hands dirty, if you know what I mean. I just bought me a big tub of gel at Michael's and decided to give it a hand. I'm bummed though, because my first candle came out really really cloudy. I read up that it could be due to putting too much scent in it (which I think I did) and vanilla seems to be prone to cloudy candles. Again, going by the internet, I re-heated my candle in an oven and all I got was my wick ungluing from the bottom of my container. So I took all my embeds out, re-melted the candle, and got the same results. Bah. Today I tried a smaller candle and added only two drops of scent. I left it cooling before coming to work and left the boyfriend on candle watch... so far it doesn't seem bad, but I can't tell very well on the picture. I also got a lot of tiny bubbles but I'm worrying about one issue at the time! So, what say you, candle wizards?
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