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  1. Crowded House
    Just reply with a straight face, "It's frosted for the Christmas Season! You know, like sipping hot chocolate by a frosty window on a cold winter morning! Doesn't it look cool?"
  2. Crowded House
    HTP-126 in an 8oz jar? How fast are you getting a full melt pool?
  3. Crowded House
    Embrace it as a characteristic of 100% soy. Heat gunning it won't help and may make it worse. There is a product called frostop that is supposed to help with that, but apparently it will not be available again until October 2007.
  4. Crowded House
    There's an SMC warehouse in my town; I drive over and pick up bundles of 25 8x8x8's for $.28 a box. I found them in the yellow pages. Perhaps you have a similar corporation near you.
  5. Crowded House
    I had one look just like that when I tested a CD10 in it. Smoked like a sonofagun when I put it out, too. Yikes.
  6. Crowded House
    I am not personally familiar with that wax but here's a tutorial of sorts on V-1 that may help.
  7. Crowded House
    No, it would not.
  8. Crowded House
    I've ordered from there and found their wax and service to be exemplary.
  9. Crowded House
    I do not think vybar is for soy waxes.
  10. Crowded House
    Maybe a dollar or two higher than some other places I shop but not outrageous. Are you saying that it is charging you the same rate for Ground and Overnight? I haven't come across that sort of thing with them.
  11. Crowded House
    Very fast processing and shipping. They just got Google's cart and that's a little different but I've ordered tins and glass from them before and always received it very quickly.
  12. Crowded House
    I agree...but I get that question about once a week or so, "Can I rub this wax into my skin?" I always say no, that I've heard of lotion candles but that is not what I make. I'm sure I've lost a sale or six by saying that but it's better than a letter from a lawyer down the road.
  13. Crowded House
    If you get the htp-31's to work please report back because that sounds way too small. I've been testing this wax for votives and usually use a CD7 or CD8, sometimes an LX18 or LX20.
  14. Crowded House
    I agree. If it were objective I could have just looked it up. Just wanted to see what others felt was a strong throw, "good" throw, etc. I had a woman tell me the other day that she waited for a candle to scent her room "for a good half-hour, almost" and that she was disappointed. In my opinion that's not even long enough to get a good melt pool, let alone scent the entire room. Of course, that's just my opinion.
  15. Crowded House
    Agreed; MC's is very heavy (but very fragrant). I will be testing BCN's soon but it seems similarly inclined based on the bottle fluid level.
  16. Crowded House
    What do you consider to be a minimum adequate scent throw? How long do you think it should take for a candle to fill a 15x15 room with a scent? How large of a room do you think a 6oz-8oz candle should scent? If a scent isn't "knock you down" strong but can still be smelled when you walk into the room, do you consider that decent throw?
  17. Crowded House
    Don't put things away quickly figuring you'll organize later when you have more time. Don't assume the other people you live with will check the oven before preheating it to 400* when you have molds in there. Don't use a glass thermometer to stir things.
  18. Crowded House
    Sweetcupcake had what was it, 1500 consultants in the first 60 days, then had some sort of embezzlement scandal and went belly up within a month after that? Crazy, some of these companies.
  19. Crowded House
    Taylored Concepts also has it, and I think SoS does as well.
  20. Crowded House
    If you add USA (Universal Soy Additive) at 2% it will behave more like 444, which is a higher melt point version of 464. There's no way they'll send you the 464 you ordered and take the 415 back?
  21. Crowded House
    If you want a 70/30 I'd ask for a 75/25 and "settle" for 70/30 or 65/35 (whatever their next offer is).
  22. Crowded House
    This is so true. I have had residential-sized fuel charges added to wholesale orders that were in small towns far away from hubs, even though it was delivered to a business.
  23. Crowded House
    I use Excel right now to keep track of orders, but when I get more organized I'd love to go to Microsoft Access to keep track of inventory. I used Access at a former job to organize their files and the database setup makes it easy to query and cross-reference information so that accurate data is at your fingertips. My biggest problem is getting over to the computer to enter in what I've bought and what I've sold. I wish there was a very low cost POS handheld device so I could just enter in the wax, FO, container, wick, tab, and label as I make candles, or shoot it at a barcode when I sell one.
  24. Crowded House
    I just had my first show with virtually no help yesterday. If I can't find a dolly in my price range before the next show in a few weeks I'll go to the thrift store and buy a kid's wagon or something. No way am I lugging all of those boxes by myself again.
  25. Crowded House
    Thanks for reporting back, silverm00n! Let us know how the jar ends.
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