so they are sensitive to smoke. I bet you haven’t heard that one before. Hello, new dude here, been reading and learning, just thought I ought to step out of the shadows and say hi like the other newbies. I’ll probably ask a few questions if I can’t find the answers with searches. A few weeks ago I thought it would be nice to burn some candles in the cold, dark damp house after a big storm, power outages and stuff. I scrounged up some burnt out old candles and recycled them in reused food jars with wicks I braided from cotton twine. My mom gave me some soy tarts for Xmas, I didn’t know what they were, seriously asked if they were food. I don’t really like any artificial fragrances, so I diluted them way down and used them like color buttons in my recycled candles. Now I’m looking at a couple hundred dollars worth of wax and equipment sitting here since I started shopping and reading about candle making online, I feel like robot number 5 in the movie Short Circuit, “need more input!” I guess it would have been easier to buy a few candles, but that’s not how I do things. The old fused broken back isn’t what it used to be, I needed a mellow indoor winter bad weather hobby anyway, besides kickboxing and shooting airguns in the house. I already had a raytek thermometer gun for my boas, and a food scale good for wax, but I’ll get a more accurate digital scale if I’m going to use EOs. I’ve been putting off getting one for a while now, for weighing airgun ammo, now I have two reasons. I just read the EO pet warning thread, all EOs will be kept away from my snake room. So far I’ve made a few colored cedarwood soy candles in hex jars, but I’m mostly using a soy/beeswax/bayberry wax blend in colored glass bottles I cut the tops off of. My wax is ugly olive drab color, and likes to crack, but in colored glass I really don’t care. Been using cotton, HTP, and hemp wicks, I like the rigid and cool burning hemp, hemp can save the planet ;^) but it grows more mushrooms than a temperate rainforest, and burns too tall for containers so I’ll save it for pillars or something. My Dad and my Aunt have a photo and art gallery, so I have a good place to burn and possibly sell candles. I also know someone who does ceramics, so I can get candleholders made. I might have to make my candles more artsy if I hope to sell them, but I’m still learning the basics with my ugly storm candles first, speaking of which, the wax is done, time to pour, and I have to go, so enough blabbing for now. Later.