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Ugh, this could end up being more difficult than I thought. LOL

So much of the stuff is in boxes up on shelves and to be able to photograph the contents would mean pulling all of the boxes down, which I'm not able to do. I'm leaning more towards Craigslist at this point since it would be easier for someone local to just come see everything for themselves.

I do have a call in to a friend asking if she would be willing to come help me with pictures but she's working all week and won't be able to help until the weekend.

Ok, so if I were to post in the classifieds here, would it be enough to just post pictures of the room and maybe a shot of each cabinet/table/shelf?

Oh trust me, someone will get one heck of a deal. At this point I have no choice but to either sell it now quick and cheap or pack it up and move it with me and try to sell it later. This move is happening without much notice or I would have had no problem doing an inventory and listing in lots.

Trust me, if I had the time to inventory everything and get a system set up to be able to sell in small lots I definitely would. We are talking 5+ years worth of me buying supplies .... an entire bedroom turned into my work area with cabinets, tables, and shelves that are loaded down. LOL

On top of having to get rid of everything I just had hernia surgery and am not allowed to lift over 10 lbs so it would be difficult to try to lift and weigh a lot of the stuff for shipping.

We will be moving soon and I will not have my own space for my craft anymore so I need ideas on how to sell off my entire supply inventory. I never got serious about selling my products so I never saw the need to actually INVENTORY my supplies so I was thinking along the lines of selling it all to someone who would be willing to come pack it up and take it away since it would take me quite awhile to inventory everything (time that I don't have). We're talking supplies enough to start a small, at home candle and b&b biz here. LOL

What are your suggestions or ideas?

These candles were part of my first batch of soy candles and the first time I had ever used the wood wick. I am just learning about wood wicks since this is my first time using them and maybe they are too long. I guess trim them down a bit so the flame isn't so large.

I have a silicone mold very similar to that and what I did was actually cut a slit down one entire side. I put a rubber band around the mold when I pour and then just take the band off and open the mold to remove the candle. It doesn't leak and it makes it easy to remove the candle without messing it up.

Anyone know of a supplier, the closer to VA the better, that sells a complete zinc wick sample pack? Peaks wants $10 to ship a $4 sample pack!

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The wall warmers used to be carried by LTD Commodities, now it's the toaster warmers.

I bought 24 of the wall warmers and returned all of them, the bulbs didn't get hot enough to melt my soy tarts.

Here are the toasters.

http://www.ltdcommodities.com/Wax-Tart-Toasters/cat_item_pg.asp?G=813&P=37&Rec=1&Ntt=tart&N=37&Nao=0&R=469046-7TATRED1

I carried the confetti for about 2 years and had very little success with it. I finally decided it was just taking up valuable real estate and let the kids use up the stock I had.

Could be it just never took off around here.

Priority Rate Changes January 2010

http://pe.usps.com/PriceChange/Notice123_jan_2010.pdf

Not huge increases, even a nickel decrease for flat rate envelopes, but still some rate changes that will likely be officially announced soon.

Both of those wicks are too big. The CDN for sure, that melt pool is way too deep for those burn times.

I'd go down 2 sizes on the CDN and 1 size on the HTP and do another set of testers. It is not essential to get a full melt pool on the 1st few burns. Usually if you are getting FMP on the 1st burn then once the candle burns down you're going to find that the jar is getting way too hot and the melt pool too deep. If you have the right size wick you'll usually get some hangup on the 1st burn or 2 but by the 3rd or 4th burn there is enough of a chimney effect to create enough heat to melt any residual wax.

The only wax I've tested that has no paraffin but LOOKS like it might is EcoSoya Advanced. Of course, if that's what it is then 100% soy is fibbing still since the Advanced has botanical oils.

I've never mixed container wax with votive wax. Not sure how that would work out. Votives need to be hard.

I mix container wax with my votive wax and it produces a perfect votive. I don't use the same waxes mentioned in the OP but just wanted to chime in and say it does work with the right waxes/ratios.

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I'm pretty sure that I read some time ago that GL was discontinuing the 70/30 and replacing it with a wax that contained more paraffin.

I've been buying my gel for several years from a lady on eBay.

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Thanks for the info. I just bought a slew of them to replace the ones I have from Candle Science that are the smaller ones.

Nice job! That is some very creative thinking.

I use the perforated clear seals from kangaroo blue.

http://kangarooblue.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5_14&products_id=278

Check the Dollar Tree. I racked up on a bunch of them a few months ago.

I tried it and had the same issue as jennyjo. Smoked like a chimney which in turn caused the soot build up.

Which company do you recommend?

I'm looking for 1 that will slice an entire 18" log at once into 1" bars.

G oogle checkout?