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If it hasn't shrank too much you can zap the tops with a heat gun and even then out.

egads, I'm not on here for a long time, then I come back and now I'm totally lost

Nothing at all, have a bad ear infection and have not been online more than a few minutes at a time, don't even feel like being out of bed much. Thank goodness my doc is in half day tomorrow so have an appointment to see if I can get this cleared up.....hate feeling this way. Well going back to bed. Maybe I'll feel like doing something next week.

Have you got a mouse that will plug into a usb port? If so you can use it on the laptop. That's what I use all the time. Like you I thought the touch pad was a PITB so bought 2 mouses on cordless and a regular one both plug in the usb port and now I love my laptop better than my old computer.

HTH

Sorry I can't help with the questions but just wanted to WELCOME you to this wonderful board.

I love those....good job.....:highfive:

Those are great, love the reds

Love your set up, It would catch my eye and I'd have to browse around and buy some of your great looking products...

You can upload them from your computer also. At the bottom of where you post it will have manage attachments click on it and you can upload from the net or your computer. If you are uploading from your computer files, just hit browse and find your pic and then hit upload and you can preview it before you send it. Hope that makes sense.

Donita, I love to learn the technical details and it also helps me get to the results I want faster, but I agree that the greatest satisfaction is in the practice rather than the theory. To that end, I have 7 waxes here in the pillar melt point range whose mottle I've tested. So far I've accumulated 5 low melt point paraffins to experiment with mottled containers. Somehow I'm going to have to find a use for it all whether it mottled nicely or not, LOL.

Top, I really enjoy your posts, I learn a lot from them, but I have to read over them a couple of times as some of this stuff is so technical that it doesn't sink in my brain too fast....that comes with old age I guess. I am trying to learn all I can about waxes. Even if I never sell anything put containers, I still like to experiment for my own pleasure. Thanks again for your help in this. I will make a mottle if it takes me til next year. LOL

Thanks to all those that have chimed in and helping me with this paraffin wax problem.

That looks soooo real and now I want some pie. Great job.

Love the packaging...and the products also...great job :highfive:

There are countless flavors of straight paraffin. Each is a unique "recipe" of paraffin molecules (they come in various shapes and sizes). That's why all kinds of properties like melting point vary from one to another.

Most will mottle but some are resistant because of their particular molecular recipe. It's easy to simulate this. Microcrystalline wax is paraffin too, but add as little as 1% of it to any other paraffin and it will change the molecular recipe so that the wax won't mottle.

138MP paraffin would most typically hold 3-5% FO, so if you're getting up to 6% without a mottle, best to try a different wax.

Please enlighten me as to where I can find these these paraffin waxes and how do I know what to buy to make a mottle, besides buying the waxes that are especially made to mottle.

Scented, I'm using 1 to 1.5 oz of FO per #wax. and 2 TBS of steric and when I use the mineral oil about 2 TBS.

Top, it's just straight paraffin, Cw138 that I got from hobby lobby. I thought paraffin was pararffin no matter where you got it. Are there different kinds of straight paraffin?

tlc26, I've cooled really slow, wrapped towels around them and still no help.

Donita, it's not a preblended just straight paraffin mp138. So I don't know what in the world I'm doing wrong. I think I'll take your advice and hold my tongue different ways and see if that helps......

I have been about to pull my hair out trying to make a mottle. Using paraffin, , paraffin with FO and steric acid, paraffin with mineral oil and FO, paraffin with steric, FO, mineral oil and I might get a little blotch of mottle out of all these experiments. This is driving me nutso. I just can't get it right, guess if I want a mottle I'm gonna have to buy some mottling wax.I think I'm gonna throw the towel in on this one or I'm gonna drive myself insane. (and I don't have far to go)

Love them all and the presentation is great also.:highfive:

Just one word......Wowzers....:highfive: now why can't I get a mottle like that, or even something that looks remotely like a mottle.

Me too!!! It's beautiful.

Me three! beautamus..Way to go.:highfive:

Looks very Christmasy....love the colors..

Those look delish.....

Wow, those look sooo real....well off to the kitchen and see what I can find to eat and gain some of the weight I've lost. I gotta quit looking at these food candles at night.

Neato, that's odd, but in a good way...

wow, love those and the colors are great

When I'm testing a container/jar candle I burn it all the way, if it is drowning half way, I start over with a new full jar and wick up cuz if you yank the wick out and start over with a different wick with just a half jar then you won't know what the first half is gonna do. Hope that makes sense. JMO