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I'm stumped on this one. I was getting ready to melt some wax to scent sleighbells and decided I had no idea what color I should make it. What color do you use?

Humidity is definately a factor except I noticed that on certain days my mix never got as hard as I would've liked, but packaged a bit moist anyway and seems to still be okay. Any vanilla based fragrance oil will turn things a brownish color. I have on my instruction label that the mixture may discolor due to the fragrance oil but it's use will not be affected.

The sink fresheners I have made haven't gotten rock hard to need a rolling pin. The overall purpose from what I understand and express in my instruction sheet that the intent is not for fragrances a room. The idea of the freshener is to do just that "freshen" your sink. The baking soda and citric clean your drain pipes. It works well in the disposal as well. I've used Hot Baked apple pie, verbena lemongrass and cinnamon for the kitchen and for the bathroom Hollenburst and clean cotten. I introduced them at a fall festival at the beginning of the month and although had alot of interested people in them, only sold 1 sample pack ( Will try again at the next festival. There are quite a few comments on this subject over at BCN.

Not sure if I'll be much help, but I use pure soy from the old bluegrass candle and I use the 4 oz. and 8 oz. quilted jelly jar and use HTP 104 for almost all of my fragrances with a successful burn etc. I think the diameter of the mouth of the jars is the same in the 16 oz. I have to go up to a HTP 105 on some of the stronger fragrances.

Pumpkin Fudge from Keystone and Cranberry Punch from Bluegrass have been my overall best selling fragrances for about the past 3 years.

Mess, what mess...how do you think Andy Worhal got started! Mess will sort of be cleaned up in about an hour when I get everything packed in the car for the festival tomorrow. The ghost you are seeing is the tv reflecting off the window!. Sort of scared me too when I enlarged the picture. Festival I'm doing is in a little village called Homewood on the outskirts of Beaver Falls. It is just a small little town but they do get a lot of people through there on the weekend. It is only $35.00 for the 2 days. I always choose an outside space (and pray for good weather) instead of being cramped onto an 8' table in the firehall. My 10 x 10 ez up broke and my other one is 14x14 and they had no problem with me setting it up as there are only 3 of us in the small yard at the beginning of the town. I am also the only candle / fragrance type person except for a guy who sets up outside the firehall with buckets and buckets of wooden roses.

You think this is a kitchen? I can't work in the basement where I have my workshop set up. We don't have cable running to the basement so I can't watch tv and I can't listen to CDs either.With the dehumidifier running and my hot plates for 2 pour pots turned on, I blow a fuse when the tv and lights are on upstairs. (very old house with very old wiring)

I'm up to my eyeballs in firestarters in preparation for a 2 day fall festival this weekend. It is in a small town but they get quite the crowd and this will be my 3rd year. I know the bow is too big on my basket but I love the pinecone print so I'm leaving it as is. Also...is a kitchen really for cooking and eating? http://www.homewoodjunction.net/frames.html they haven't updated the site for this years festival yet.

I'm looking for a lavender fragrance that would be comforting / relaxing, suitable for children. It doesn't need to be bath and body safe. I used the downey lavender from NG before and loved it, but I think it is too much of a detergent fragrance. Lavender isn't one of my favorite fragrances so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I make unscented ones to use when a fire will be lit for cooking food, otherwise I make the unscented ones for fireplaces or woodburners. I read several things before on other boards that you shouldn't use the scented ones for food fires...guess pine scented smores aren't such a good thing.

I've heard others on another board saying about their ornies melting and falling off the hanger. I use a darning needle to make the hole for my hanger which is thin cording (not the elastic kind). I sort of push the needle through the ornie then I turn it over so I am pushing against the eye and I Push it against a dishtowel against the counter and with a little effort it goes right through. I also spray my cookie sheet with cooking spray and use a paper towel with cooking spray to wipe the inside of my cutter and the edge that will be against the cookie sheet. I've never had any stick since doing this.

I haven't tried the beads in sachet bags yet but sell a lot of the ornies. I couldn't even tell you how many cutters I have. I have a blast making them with different colors. It is just a pain mixing different beads in different colors of the same scent. I have 2 shelves on my shelving unit in the basement filled with beads mixed and ready to go. I get my cutters from a local candy store, the craft stores or online at www.foosecutters.com or www.cincicakeandcandy.com One of these places has a texas shaped cookie cutter. I've never noticed the scent staying in my oven (it's gas). I mostly do my ornie baking at night so I guess by the time I use the oven again it's all gone.

I've been wanting to buy one of these gadgets for the longest time but sort of lost interest since it is too hot to crochet. I'm sure my interest will be peaked again once fall hits. http://www.edgerydoo.com/

That's how I did my custom cardboard air fresheners but I didn't use a mega hole puncher. I use a yarn needle that has a sort of blunt point. I put the freshener down on my counter on top of a hot pad and sort of wiggle the needle until it gets started, push it through, turn the thing over and the eye end push against the hot pad against the counter and it goes right through. This way I don't have a hole bigger than the cording I use to hang them. I think it looks neater and less chance of the freshener tearing around a bigger hole.

I started with the bluegrass soy and have used with and without the cottonseed. I found that most of my fragrances did well with either a HTP 104 or HTP 105 in 4 and 8 oz. jelly jars. I haven't had a bad fragrance from them either. I am hopeful that someone takes over.

It depends on how long you leave the sink full if it leaves a residue or not. The times I've tried it were in my stainless steel sink and it is a mess anyway from our well water but if a slight residue is left I just wipe it out.

I do see your point, but the environmentally friendly point I was trying to get across was that it isn't an actual aerosol. I am a Dental Hygienist and all the OSHA things I attend are all about the aerosols...spraying things and having the droplets bounce off and go into the air so that's why I'm saying it is friendly 'cause you're not spraying the stuff around. Think about all the other "fragranced" stuff on the market these days. Who knows what's going into our septic systems and into our water...I think that's why kids are just "nuts" these days and there are so many health problems..things just aren't natural like they used to be. I'm going to see if I can get the wording better to get my point across. I'll see if my chemist friend can help me come up with something better. Maybe I could change it to say because this isn't an aerosol, it is friendly to our air environment or something like that. I'll have to do some more tweaking. My original idea was thought of at 2:00 this morning when I couldn't sleep.

From what I was told by a chemist friend and lab tech, because the fragrance oil is incorporated with the powders and dissolves into the water, there are no actual fragrance oil droplets being expressed into the air like with an aerosol can or spray..there is just an aroma, the oil is still in the water. She said there are worse things being spewed into our environment through the air and washed down our drains. I don't even want to know!

I had single packets of the sink scent listed in my Etsy shop. Sine I got such rave reviews with my packaging for the bulk size, I figured I better come up with something to inspire a sale or 2. This is what I came up with. Yucko, Stinko, Pe--uuuuu!Are you cooking fish, liver, or onions? Did you burn your dinner or leave the popcorn popping too long in the microwave? Did something rot in your garbage disposal or did someone forget to turn the bathroom fan on? Foul odors are Foul! With sink scent you can temporarily clear the air leaving that "I've been scrubbing all day" fresh, clean scent while cleansing and deodorizing your kitchen and bathroom sinks and pipes. Environmentally friendly, sink scent is a non-toxic powder mixture that won't release harmful fumes into the air like aerosols or spray deodorizers. Go green and re-use the moisture resistant zip-loc pouch to re-package bulk items like laundry or dish washing detergeant. The light weight non-bulky pouch is a perfect travel companion for shampoo or a bar of soap. It will keep dry things from clumping (miracle grow) and wet things from drying out (magic eraser sponges, home made play doh). Each 12 oz. package is enough to treat 8-12 sinks. Try some Sink Scents today. Your nose will Thank You!

I bet mighty putty would take care of the seams.

My sink doesn't really stink either. The sort of main object of the sink scent is that because the citric acid bubbles when it drains it has a cleansing property for your pipes. The fragrance just releases into the air. It is great to use after you've cooked fish or onions or burned popcorn in the microwave. The fragrance release isn't a true aerosol so there are no actual particles in the air. I know we've had a clogged kitchen sink before and didn't want to have to run across town for draino or liquid plumber so I filled the sink with boiling hot water, dumped some baking soda and citric acid in, let it sit for about 1/2 hour and no more clog.

I originally had the scoop laying flat across the top of the powder but it just didn't look nice. My neighbor drilled the test one for me and I really do love the look of it so now I have a job for him. The scoops I am using are not rounded, they are flat edged so I was a little worried about it cracking, but no problem. I thought about packaging in jars, but then thought about possible breakage. I hope I can get a few of these sold. I love using it in my sinks. I'm just having a brain freeze with what other fragrances to make. I know what I like but it's always hard to guess what others would purchase. I have red hot cinnamon, verbena lemongrass, tealeaf and grapefruit and hollanburst which I have renamed shower fresh. I'm going to mix up a couple others that would be bathroom appropriate and I think lemon Chiffon and not sure what others for the kitchen, probably some type of apple. I am recuperating from a 5 day hospital stay with pneumonia so I do not want to mess with any fragrances for awhile. I have until the first weekend of October for my next upcoming show. I had to withdraw from the huge one next weekend.

Yep, that's it. I have a picture of my bulk packaging in the gallery part. I should of explained myself in my original post.

I haven't mixed them up in awhile so I don't remember the recipe off hand and is down in the basement. It was posted at BC in their Feb 08 newsletter. The package is a 16 oz. foil packet (clear on front, silver on back)

Now that I'm on this sink refreshener kick and am excited about my new packaging I would like to get some opinions on which type of fragrances people would consider using to Freshen their sinks. I've done Red Hot Cinnamon, Verbena Lemongrass, Tealeaf & Grapefruit, and Hollenburst from Berts heaven scent and changed the name to Shower Fresh.