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Gorgeous candles and like the tags

Wow! What a nice surprise!

Looks pretty! Can't wait to see the cut pics

Love those! How'd you do it?

Very pretty. I have used flowers in and on candles for many years. Some flowers hold color better than others. I belong to The World Wide Pressed Flower Guild and Pressed Flowers at Yahoo. If you want to learn how to press flowers these are two wonderful groups to check out. I have been pressing for about 20 years. The Guild charges dues but the Yahoo Group is free.

Donita

Donita, you have beautiful hurricane's, too. Love all your flowers.

That is one of the prettiest hurricanes I have ever seen. Very very nice.

Very pretty!

Does anyone know how to make hurricanes that have different colored layers? IE pink on the bottom half and white on the top half? Or is there a tutorial somewhere around?

Thanks

I think they turned out fantastic! Love the colors and designs.

The colors look great, like the real thing

That's a lot of candles!

I didn't see the previous version with the tag - the label looks really great.

All looks wonderful! Especially like the cupcake looking ones with the embeds - really cute!

Very, very pretty!

File your case with people's court, or Judge Judy. One of the two, or maybe both.

Two good reasons - 1, it is binding arbitration. Both parties sign an agreement to abide by the judge's decision.

And 2 - you would get your money if you win. Here's something I found online about People's Court:

The losing party does not actually need to pay the judgment, as such. Instead (as is stated in the disclaimer at the end of each show), both parties are paid from a fund (set up by Ralph Edwards-Stu Billett Productions). This fund was based on the amount of the lawsuit claim, but an exact formula was not stated. The fund was to be first divided equally, then any monetary judgment ordered was subtracted from the loser's half (and presumably both halves in the case of cross judgments). Each litigant received at least what remained of their half in shows concluding with that disclaimer.

I'm not sure where the shows are taped though.

According to my research in some states if a judgement is awarded and is not paid you can report it to the credit bureau and it will affect their credit rating...just like any other bad debt. In that case, I can't understand why someone would not pay before going to court.

If their credit is already bad, they probably wouldn't care.

Anyone have a good tried recipe. The one recipe I have, I tried and it just does not lather AT ALL. I would really like to make some of these if anyone has a tried and true recipe.

I read somewhere that if you have hard water, you might have trouble with lather from a shampoo bar.

You can create your own salt bar recipe but make sure there is atleast 50 percent Coconut Oil the other 50 can be a combo of hard and liquid oils.

I like to do 60 coconut oil 5 Babassu 5 Palm, 10 Olive oil, 10 Shea, 5 Crisco, 5 Castor.

Whatever amount of oils you use use the same in Salt or if you have trouble with crumbly bars I sometimes use less salt about 2 ounces.

Barbara

Barbara, do you superfat your salt bars?

You have a very nice shop. I'd love to browse if we were close enough.

These are absolutely stunning!! I love everything about this picture.

I agree with Luci, stunning!

Your soaps are great! Very pretty, would grace any home.

where is that site i would like to check it out.

Did u find the website? If not, here it is

http://saponifier.com

I'm picky with my testers too. Are you using veg wax? I put them in the oven to melt the wax, pour melted wax in the garbage, paper towel out(don't want any wax going down in the pipes), then hand wash them in hot soapy water. Mine get squeaky clean. Before I pour a new candle in them I spray some all purpose cleaner in the container and use a micro cloth to wipe them out. I find this really helps cut down on wet spots.

I like my testers to look nice while I'm testing them.

I do mine like yours, except haven't tried all purpose cleaner - do you mean like 409 or something like that?

Everything went well. We sold about 1/3 of the candles shown there. Plus orders for special candles. It was well worth it. Good time had by all. Only 1 pillar took a dive and got banged up. So it is now a door prize candle.

I saw something on TV about the Nudge factor - they did an experiment with people working in an office - had food displayed in different ways each day to see if how displayed could influence what they chose to eat - and apparently it did.

One thing they did was elevate some of the food, and when they did, people ate more of it. I wondered if the same principle would work on sales displays. Did you wife sell more of what was elevated?

Very nice layout BTW.

Since I just noticed you are a noob, I must also let you know that noobs taste like chicken

geek

You are funny Geek.

I thought this thread looked familiar, especially the post about walking away from candlemaking forever (quite rude - sticks out). Didn't realize it was two years old till after I posted.