OFCILynn

I think all of them are nice but personally, I would have to say #2 ONLY for the reason that you can tell that those are candles in front of the teddy bear! The first one is unclear of what that is on the candle holder and the third one looks like a birthday cake like someone else mentioned! If you wanted to go with #1, which I really think you could make a few adjustments to and it would be great! Make the candle taller so you can tell its a candle on a candle plate/holder! JMHO They are all very nice though! Great job!! Good Luck!

VERY nice and creative!!

I think your sea scapes are very nice indeed! I have a long way to go yet with mine but they sure are fun to make arent they? Thanks for sharing and keep up the GREAT Work!! God Bless, Lynn

Thanks Bruce. I have been having a hard time finding Powdered Pigment Dyes but will keep searching the net knowing that this really is the better choice. I think it would be so much easier also to keep a consistency to the coloring since I could easily measure out the dye! If you happen across that dye company, I sure would appreciate the info. God Bless YOU for sharing a trade secret! LOL Lynn

Very NICE!!!

OK, these pictures are not very good at all but here are my first sea scape candles that I made two weeks ago! I know that I still have a long way to go but they sure are fun to make!! Here is a non sea scape one I call Flutter. These are all my first ones of these types so bear with the imperfections! The editing program to take out the background when I photographed it really CHOPPED the candle up some! The edges and curls are really much smoother in person! LOL Need to make a light box quickly! All criticism welcome! Thanks for looking! God Bless, Lynn

Those are too cute! I would love one of the tan/chocolate baseball jerseys!! Well, there are a few others as well! LOL Thanks for sharing!

Hi Top, the microwax that I use has to be a lower melt point such as around 140. Most micro waxes are 180mp. This is not acceptable as the melter is set at 170 degrees and the microwax would not melt properly. Remember, that these are cut-n-carved candles that I am trying to dye! LOL I hope I answered your question for you! Thanks for looking!

Thank you everyone who has submitted an entry into this contest! No more entries will be allowed! Winner will be announced on or before October 14th! Each and every one of you submitted great entries and I wish I could make every one of you a winner! Your input has helped me immensely! Please stay tuned to this thread and watch for the winner to be announced! It could be YOU!! I will PM the winner to get contact information so that your Carved candle can be made and delivered to you! If you are an entrant and are not able to accept PMs on this board, Please be sure to watch this thread as when I announce the winner, I will give you an opportunity to email me your contact information! Again, Thank YOU ALL!!:highfive: God Bless, OFCILynn

45 minutes to go to get your enteries in!! Dont miss out!! Enteries will be accepted till 12:00 a.m. tonight! Good Luck and God Bless, Lynn

This contest ends TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT CST!! Hurry and get your final entries in!! You MAY submit more than once as long as you don't repeat your own entries! The FIRST person who has submitted an entry that we choose to use as our company name will be the winner!! I see many repeats and as much as I would love to give every entry a carved candle, this is impossible!!! Even if multiple persons submitted the same chosen name, it will only be the very first person who submitted the entry who will win! I am clarifying this further as I have been PMed and asked! FYI, in choosing a winner, we have been copying and pasting each and every entry and placing them in a list so in choosing possibilities, we have no idea Who's entry we are considering till we go back and look at the posts! This seems to be the fairest way possible. We have entries from other countries and carvers in this contest. IF one of their entries is chosen, it was done purely for their entry and NOT because of location or favoritism! I just wanted to clarify that in case we get other out of the country entries or if another carver were to win. NO decision has been made yet and we will wait till after midnight tonight to start considering the final winner!! I wish each and everyone of you the best of luck! Keep those entries coming in till MIDNIGHT TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!! God Bless, OFCILynn

Hi Michael, Thanks for sharing! I have been playing with the black tonight. I havent carved any candles yet but have been dipping scraps of wax to test. I am now up to 1/4 lb of the black, from the same source...but I went through the sources source to order the dye! LOL ALOT cheaper!! I have come up with a decent black with four dips. Now, that is too much dye considering a lb is supposed to color approx. 300-500 lbs of wax!! For one vat, this is way too much dye to have to use! BUT........it might hold me over till I find something that works better! I am still fighting which wax to use! I know that I will NOT use 1343! I personally like the 4611 but that wax isnt good for much of anything else! The good points to it is that you dont need micro wax, which as you know for US, we cant get normal 175-180mp microwax!! John said that we have to buy it buy the pallet which could be way too expensive for us starter outters! LOL IF I can get the 1239 to work without the micro and the molting, that is what I am going to use. The 4611 stays softer longer so you just have to learn to carve faster with the 1239. I will be doing some testing again here in the next few weeks with only 4611 and Ill see if the black works better in that and Ill be testing teh 1239 with NO microwax and see how the molting and layering goes! Trial and error!! Since we use 11-12lbs of wax per vat, its a expensive test! LOL I am also going to see about making my own dolphin molds as I can not find any thus far that are cheap enough that are a appropriate size. Safari Ltd. no longer carries the same dolphins and you have to buy in large bulk. Ill let you know after I order my mold making supplies and make a mold for the dolphins and see how they look/work in case you are interested. Oh, I will be calling both candlewic.com and BCN regarding some of their dyes. Candlewic has one that claims to be better than the CM dyes, which is what we use and they use the maufactures where our dye comes from. Their price is 25.70 a unit. Im not sure HOW much in volume their units are! LOL BCN has a Pitch Black dye that I want to call and find out if it would be acceptable for cut-n-carve candles. We surely dont need layering problems! LOL Ill let you know what I find out when I call next week. Thus far, those are the two that I have found that dont use the same source as where our black comes from. Im all for cutting costs without quality whenever I can!! Ok, enough for now! Thanks again for your imput! Im hoping Bruce will chime in here and give his opinions on a great black to use for the cut-n-carve! Ive seen some of his blacks and they look great! Bruce........are you out there? Take care and God Bless, Lynn

Hello Cut-n-carvers or over dippers! LOL I need a true black candle dye for my cut-n-carve candles! Any suggestions? I currently use J&E Polish dyes, which you can also get from BCN and CW. The black thus far has taken almost a lbs of the dye to get me a dark grey! I want a true black! Before I start mixing purple or something of the sort, any suggestion? WHO and WHERE can I get a true black pigment dye! I don't care if it is liquid, powder, flakes, or brick as long as its economical and it works and there is a good way to measure for accuracy when adding to my vats! TIA!!!!! God Bless, Lynn Edited to add, if you dont mind sharing the costs of your black dye by the pound, Id apprecaite it! Thanks again!

Very pretty

Nice colors! Good job!

Just TWO More Days to get your entries in!! Hurry!! Time is running out!

Very nice just the way that they are!!

Thank you all very much for checking things on your end for me! For those of you who have websites, you know what its like to have things work on your end but not to the general public right! If any of you can get a chance to check out the MESSAGE Board, that would be a big help to me! Thank you again and God Bless, Lynn

Hi all! I am working on getting a new website ( www.ofci.biz ) up so in the next couple of months, I can start selling a few items. I need people to go to my site and click on each of the links and test for me. Also, to try and get into the message board, live chat, and gallery. I do NOT have any products up on the site at this time! The background and images will be changed! This is just a temporary layout for me till I design the full site around the new logo name. The basic layout will be the same though! Please leave a message on the message board in the Report Website Problem Forum or you may email me at ofci@ofci.biz with any problems that you may have with my site ! http://www.ofci.biz Know, this is a constant work in progress!! Thanks and God Bless, OFCILynn

When I rented the house that I am in now, there was terribly stained carpet in the kitchen! The landlord refused to let us take it up and put down good linolium so...........We went and bought 1/4" thick plywood and the cheap linolium from Freds which was around 20.00 a roll. I had to get two. We nailed the plywood down and put the linolium down over that and walaaaaa, I have a linoliumed kitchen floor! When we go to move, I can easily take it back up. If you put linolium down without something between the carpet and linolium, you will wind up with many cracks and tears even if you put nothing on it but your feet! The plywood helps eliminate the depressions and tears that you will get once you start putting items on that floor. I am about to covert another bedroom into a workshop here soon and I will have to do the same thing in there as we did the kitchen. Only this time, I may have to pay more for linolium as I cant find a Freds who has two of the same darn rolls! LOL Good Luck to you!!

Reminder :bump:

Please explain why you can not use products with oils in them in the whirlpool tubs? I understand about the bubbles and such, but not the oils. TIA

That looks so nice!! Very good job!!

Yummmmmmmmmmmmmy!!!

The scents sound interesting and I bet it does smell like fall! If it was cut even, it would look very nice!! Great rebatch!!