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?