Beth-VT

What am I missing? You said a candle weighs 4-1/2 lbs, and there's 90 of them? As mentioned, that's 400#. That's not going to ship for $60. What the heck kind of candle weighs almost 5# each yet you can fit 20 of them in a large flat rate? That's 90# worth.........I'm confused.

Find some free, large boxes (stores, recycling centers, etc) and ship UPS. You should get a hundred-weight discount. USPS will not be cheaper on that kind of weight.

Actually, LTL carrier would probably be your best bet, but sounds like you might not have a way to deal with that.

I've made many of these, and personally i think the plastic sticks suck. They're just too weak to hold the weight of a votive.

I use 12" wooden craft sticks, 1/4", and put the cups on the end.

If you don't have a self clean feature, just turn the oven up as high as it will go, and "bake" them for 30-40 minutes or so.

Just Google Promotional items....there are hundreds of places that do this.

I hvae Print Shop Pro Pub. 20, it's all on CD.

LOL.....yes, the smell goes away. It's just stuff burning off in the oven and wil air out. The tins themselves will have no odor.

Open a window if you can.

Bake them as hot as your oven will go. Some people use the self cleaning feature. If you don't have that.....450° or 500° works just fine.

Take the lids of and lay the tins/lids on the racks and cook. Will take probably around 30 minutes +/-.

Be warned, it may smoke a little and stink some....it all depends on residue from the manufacturing process.

The color's will vary some. Within a batch, some will be distinctly dark gold, some will be very bronze, you can't control that so learn to live with it

Good luck.

You create them yourself by baking them in the oven.

Oh man.......some supplier had the little mini tubes several years ago, can't remember who!! They're like 1/3-1/2 the size of a normal tube, same diameter. I'll scour my old stuff and see if I can find the link but I'm not holding my breath

Bag Balm. Best stuff ever.....and fast. Have him apply to hands just before bed, and cover with some latex gloves overnight, by morning he'll be 1000% better.

Heh....I saw that thread on BC about the prices and was quite puzzled as to why that was locked.

I use the little plastic things used to hold balloons to the stick....I forget what they're called. The votive sits nice and flat and then you can wrap it in the tulle, then I use florists tape to finish the stem off.

Wrangler Butts!

YES!!! That's exactly why I came here, to see if anyone else posted about having troubles. I've been trying for almost 3 hours........invalid ZIP code. I'm like......did I move???

It's not just you, and it has nothing to do with PayPal. USPS is apparently having issues

Crap. I'm actually going to have to hand write a label, and pay extra as well cuz I can't do it on-line!!! They owe me $0.90!!

Oh, 175° is way too friggin' hot to hold!! Our radiant floor system runs at 140° and I can't keep my hands on the copper tube at that temp.

I've never NOT had big honkin' air pockets w/palm.

and Stella's right.....it ain't pretty when all that wax drains away into one of those caverns

If it is a 'catalytic' type.....absolutely not. And the newer 'non catalytic' technology I would say no to as well, they say "no petroleum products".

Ditto on Filmore!!

And best prices I've found on less than bulk quantities.

That's only 200 a week. About 29 a day.

No problem. But I, too, would get a few more pour pots so you can keep a pour cycle going. With only 2 scents, you could easily have them done in a week.

I agree, Candlemakers Store are darn good too, I just don't like them on sheets, I much prefer the rolls.

That reply wasn't to you Beth, I haven't found them on the other sites mentioned either. Actually I haven't found them at TVG but got a sample of one and just got a price list yesterday.

Thanks!! Just sent off a request to Tim

Candles and Supplies is where i've gotten mine

Could you provide a direct link? I've searched their site up and down in recent days and can't find them anywhere.

That's a pisser. I did the FF3 update a while ago with no problems (knock on wood).

For FF users, and Thunderbird as well, Google Mozbackup, it's a great little free program that backs up both programs. In FF it gets all your bookmarks as well as your settings and such. For T-bird, it saves all your emails and account settings, etc. Then if you need it, just open Moz, click restore, and you're done.

The handy thing is, it makes it super easy if you change computers....just do a basic install of FF, T-bird, and Mozbackup, then do the backup files on old PC using Moz saving to a flash drive, then just restore on the new PC. All your settings and everything come over in a matter of seconds, no messing around with pop, SMTP, passwords, nothing. Also brings over your add-ons, plug-ins, etc.

I love it. I backup every week, takes seconds.

J223 is a great wax. Have used it (in a blend) for about 5 years. Very good throw.

Sounds to me like the fragrance manufacturer knows nothing about candle making.