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I use the 4 oz. jars like the ones you show and I get silver lids for them from WSP. I use a crystal clear 2x4 label on the front and it looks really nice.

The wording sounds a lot like wholesale requests I have gotten from China and other countries including Nigeria.

You can use propay without calling in your cards. My site as a gateway that goes to propay from the shopping cart. You can also enter charges manually, which is nice for shows.

I think that response is fine Tara. You're being honest and not trying to steal business.

I think it depends on your city/county regulations. The county I live in does not require a business license. The city that I work in (where I would have a shop if I opened one) bases need for a business license on how much your gross sales are per year. If you do less than $3500 you don't need a business license. Also, I believe as a former (years ago) Avon rep. you don't need a license because you are a sales rep for the company, not the company itself. If you hired sales reps for your own candle company they wouldn't be required to have a business license because the company would have one. Again, you should definitely check with your city/county offices to find out exactly what your regulations are.

You can view some of their stuff at Butler Group Gifts, they are a rep for Jackel.

http://www.butlergroupgifts.com/catalog/product_cat.php/subid=201/index.html

I'm with Mystical on this one. I tried it when it first came out. It has a higher melting point so you can't just use a double boiler to melt it. Also, because of the high MP it can tunnel bad with the wicks that came in the kit, so a lot of money would have to go to testing to get a good burn and that wax isn't cheap. I bought the kit they had when it was first released and it came with a sphere mold, wick and fo. I hated the fingerprints. The candles did look beautiful burning thought since you could see the flame through the colored wax that was left from the tunnel.

Unfortunately soy wax does sometimes get the lumpy bumpy tops even if it is poured according to the instructions. Most of us have played with it until we get it to the point where we are satisfied by blending or hit the tops with our heatguns so they are smooth.

There was someone from the old board who had a gift basket given to Sarah Michelle Gellar while she was in town filming but I don't remember what ever came of it if anything and I can't remember who it was!

I thought about renaming Lick Me All Over too but decided to try it out first just to see how it went. I have had excellent results with keeping the name. Everyone who walks up and sees it says exactly the same thing "what does that smell like?" They always pick it up and sniff it and I sold out at my last show and had orders for more. I decided to keep it around just because people always try it and it gets people talking, showing it to their friends and husbands LOL!

I think I saw them at Target, I thought they were neat too Ash. I'm thinking about getting one to try.

My parents have the turk'n'surf from QVC.

Coconut does work. I use BCNs Honeycocomango and I always sell out of that scent.

Vaniglia is Italian for Vanilla I believe.

I use 1 oz per pound or so depending on how strong the fo is. I've never done CP though.

I use the cut ends as samples or that is what me and DH use sometimes.

I have been listed with them for about 8 or 9 months I think. I usually get somewhere between 8-10 people from there a month. I don't have a site through them though. The key is to get your stuff in the monthly newsletter they send out.

I use baking soda with a little corn starch to help it sprinkle better. When I make it I dump it into my sifter and sift it to get clumps out and make it finer and it sprinkles great! I have an apple pie that I add a little bit of ground cinnamon to that sells great. I also recommend that my customers not use it on white or very light colored carpet in case the FO does something funky!

I have gotten baskets from WSP when I needed a lot in the past. Check out these places too,

https://www.asiapacifictraders.net/estore/index.asp

http://wholesalegiftbasketsupplier.com/subcatmfgprod.asp?0=641&1=643&2=-1

http://www.qcustore.com/

I haven't ordered from the ones above but I had them bookmarked.

Found an index of basket wholesalers:

http://basketmakers.org/topics/giftbaskets/gbbasketsindex.htm

No as bas as I expected, since the suet is from around the kidneys it didn't really smelly beefy, just like a deep fryer sort of. I think using the turkey roaster helped alot too, it certainly made it easy. The dogs were big fans though, they were hanging around in case I dripped anything while I was straining.

I use natural fiber tissue paper when I can get it or handmade paper from Michael's (you get a roll of it) with the natural fibers. I wrap my soap in the paper and use a gluestick to glue the ends down, the I print cigar band type labels for each soap on cream colored paper, they look really nice and are pretty inexpensive as far as a wrapper goes. More time consuming but I wrap while I'm watching TV so that helps!

The turkey roaster worked great! I ended up with about 6 pounds of tallow. I am so excited!

Well I do have a big barbeque pit and a huge cast iron cauldron type pot that hangs from a tripod that we used to when we did pig roasts, but honestly it got too freakin' cold last night to be hanging out all day scooping out fat! I'll stay in the house where its warm and do it the easy way. I have a 18 quart turkey roaster that goes up to 350 degrees, I wonder if that would work better, then I wouldn't have to bend over to scoop out of the oven.

Thanks Robin, I may try that method instead, sounds a little easier. I was lucky enough to get the suet before they got rid of it and even luckier that it was ground already.

Theoretically it is a simple process. You cook the suet in a big pot with water and some salt for several hours and then strain out the cracklins and let the liquid harden, the water will separate from the tallow when it hardens. Then you render it again with water and baking soda, strain again and let the liquid harden. I also found a similar method that uses a crockpot for the second rendering, but I think big soup pot will be easier than transferring to a second pot. We'll see.