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its not ugly, you just aren't picturing it in the right setting. Its a theme candle. Looks like something that would be pulled out of the sea after 100 years burried in its depths. Like its deep ocean with seaweed and gold and mermaids etc... Its a theme candle. okay and its a little ugly. lol just kidding.

You know you're a perfectionist... When you can see flaws in a rustic.

Make hurricanes. Its less stress. No one technically burns a hurricane. And if they do... ...they will be in for a new one shortly.

Borderline OCD (obcessive compulsive disorder) maybe? lol.

depending on the temperature of your cold water bath (which to wax even a mild 55-65 degrees can be cold but wouldn't feel cold to us) 2 minutes is more than enough time to cause cracking. That would be my first thought is try warmer water in the water bath...I put a hurricane into water that is too cold occasionally and it will get hairline fractures almost instantaneously.

You're a sick man Bruce. And honestly, I'm really jealous you beat me to this. I'm suprised no one has yet mentioned or resorted to my personal method for maturely settling boughts of aggrivation with other people... slashing tires.

Ah...well you're lucky you didn't get blown to south east LA. I'm originally from all over the west coast and I was thinking..."shouldn't there be periods after the L and the A..." oh well sometimes I'm slow. lol

You have a gorgeous placement on the imbeds...how the fern sweeps up the side of the candle looks so cool... I like hurricanes that have the unfinnished top lip as well... Good job. where at in L.A. do you live?

http://www.candletech.com/marbled/ thats not an excel sheet but its instructions.

How big of a hurricane are you making? There are probably things that will work. the real question is how small can you get away with. Try your local hardware store where they have all sizes and shapes of metal containers like metal buckets. then again I don't always use a double boiler when I am making a dipping vat...wax is easy to keep warm on low low heat once it has melted. I live vicariously through my wax.

Burn it before you decide its too cheap. lol. Maybe it'll smoke like a furnace...

The mold weighs 50lbs filled. lol. I'd break the counter! But that was good advice. I was just trying to figure out if the pits were from the bubbles or just something I was doing in general. I'm pretty sloppy with my pour technique and usually do it a different way each time just for the fun of it. I'll remember to tap...

When you make a rustic pillar...do you still tap the mold to get rid of air bubbles? Or will it make no difference? Or will it ruin the finnish. I've never tapped but I never thought I needed. Now I have a couple of candles that are kind of pitted and rustic and I didn't know if thatis because I didn't tap the mold. Thanks for any ideas.

forget colors... whoo hoo nice looking rustics. and the colors are nice too.

First one Cool. I haven't even been brave enough to do chunks. Bright colors are cheerful. Lots of candles are pastels or reds and blues. Not enough of them are colorful like yours. Second one I think is alright for a black candle. I find the paper targets at the shooting range absorb my negativity pretty darn good but i've never tried a black negativity absorbing candle. The last one would have gone for BIG money in the sixties and seventies. I'm not sure how I would know cause I wasn't alive in that era...but I've seen Austin Power so I think that makes me enough of an expert.

Congradulations Tess. I took a look at your site. I liked it. It is a very cute, very clearly laid out site. I was wondering myself why more people don't buy from it. Do you have your web address on a business card or something you can hand out like crazy?

anyone here going to this?

You know your a geek when the drinking game... "whoever makes the biggest hurricane gets the worm" or "every time someone says the phrase Pour Temp or FO everyone takes a shot" would acutally get you really really hammered. lol

sorry Donita, I think you are rubbing off on me a little... I FORGOT the extra zero. 1,000lbs should last us a couple days. maybe... One bottle of Jack won't though.

I taught Bruce everything he knows. okay maybe not. He does make really great candles. I think someone asked Bruce if anyone ever burned one of the candles they bought from him and in a modest way he indicated that no they didn't burn them because they were too beautiful. Veronica do you carve candles? or are you interested in learning?

and pour soft. run it down the side of the jar if you have to really really slowly that way it doesn't break the surface tension of the first layer that has formed a "skin" as Angela said.

If I were you I would NEVER wash my FO measuring cup...eventually you will end up with what we like to call in the industry the "dying the egg black syndrom" There is a vast untapped market of teenagers who aren't in their right mind anyway that I'm sure would think it was really "cool" to have a candle that smelled like..well thats the point we don't know what it smells like...we haven't washed the FO cup since 83'.

Have you tried looking for suppliers in europe or somewhere slightly closer to Italy? I've been searching the net for european supplies are I haven't found much but for instance try looking here... http://www.exagon.ch/ It looks like you can buy 25kg to 50kg of paraffin and they have additives and you could do it that way. I'll see if I can find more. Maybe this will help some.

Hmmm....a wax bath tub....not a bad idea.... just kidding. Hey I dunno why everyone thinks this is such a revolutionary idea. I mean they make hotels out of ice. lol come to think of it they serve copious amounts of liquor in these ice hotels...top maybe we do need to find some weekend and get a bottle of Jack and 100lbs of wax...

You know I am not sure what everyone else will say to this... But I make most of my candles rustic and I haven't really started to use Stearic Acid until recently. I get a perfectly fine rustic from just a OK6228 pillar wax and I pour mine cold and when I mean cold I mean just before the wax starts getting cloudy. I don't warm up my molds either. I just leave them room temperature. And don't use a water bath because that can help the wax smooth. Just pour cold, don't use so much stearic. I mean three tablespoons for a candle that small is a LOT in my opinion (then again I don't use any most of the time) and sit on it and wait. Thats my secret recipie. If it doesn't work...then acutally this was scented or Tops secret recipie and I was trying to pass it off as my own so take it up with them.