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Thanks bunches Sarah! I have plenty of htp's but of course I have tons of cds. So you like htp's? How bout cd's? Ever try them? Trappeur

I need up to 100 silver galvanized lids for a store I sell to for a new style candle and I'm in deep doo doo because Fillmore won't be getting their shipment in till middle to end of June. I can't believe this happened...and no other supplier has that lid. I can find them on the internet for 1.99 each but that is the retail price. Does anyone know who carries that lid? Or I could buy some from anyone who has those lids. Here is a picture of the lid. Trappeur

Thankyou for your input Obsessed. I think exactly as you. Have you any scent recommendations you could give/ Trappeur

Hello, Nice to meet you and welcome. 2 ragdolls? OmG they are beautiful! What are the names/ I love cats.....i have like 25 of them. The great pyranees are gorgeous. I love big dogs! Trappeur 1

Nice to meet you Tavuk and welcome... Trappeur

Actually I made up the candles and went with the rust lid. Here is a picture of the rust lid and another more clearer picture of the candle with the black lid. So either lid color will work.

Thanks bunches Sebleo! Trappeur

Yes, don't feel like you can't post here....and besides that like I said in my post I said not to think I was coming down on hard so I knew what I was typing. Maybe you didn't read that line...It's no biggy. All is good. You took it all the wrong way, that's all. And I always type in a heavy font because I have a problem seeing small print....lol Some people think that the person who types big is being a smart alec, but mine is not meant like that at all. So don't sweat the small stuff and just move on...... It can be hard at times when reading someone elses writing too and then thinking something else when it was not meant like that. So we hope you will stick around with the rest of us. We really have a great bunch here and at times really laugh. Oh Moonshine, I don't do anything different than you do in making candles. I always write down on a piece of scratch paper what percentage oils I used then tons of time I don't even do that. I had to learn to adapt ways to make candlemaking easier since I do so many. I would tell you if I had a formula, but I don't. I keep most of it in my head. lol.....but if there was some special way I would tell you, but there isn't. Yes I did move through the Easter candles pretty quick ly. It amazes me that I accomplished it myself. I just keep thinking too in the back of my mind I have to get things done and not procrastinate (which I am a big one at that). And lately with my sickness my mind is always going and I don't want to leave unfinished orders hanging so I have to push myself. And I love making candles too..it's very joyful for me. Trappeur

Sounds like a great wax Sarah. I think I'll order a few pounds of it. Is this a parrafin? Do you use any jars like the status or pint canning jar or jelly jar as I was wondering what size wicks you would use in that wax just so I could compare. Trappeur

OMG Sarah are you ever awesome at giving descriptions! I can't do one to save my soul! Well, none of them appeal to me and I don''t order from Candlewic anyway so it's no loss for me. Good luck with getting them done and coming back and giving us more reviews! Trappeur

That is great. Looks like you have a great work area for candles....I wish I had something like that with all the candles I make... Trappeur

Nashbubba, we all are here to help one another and like I said in my post above I didn't want you to take my suggestion as to hurt your feelings as it wasn't meant that way as I stated but unfortunately you did. You weren't taken to the woodshed and I'm sorry you took it that way. Most people don't realize when they are starting out just what goes into making a candle. My contribution to this discussion was explaining the sheer importance of safety for everyone. Where did I say give several away as gifts, not one? Don't understand what you are talking about. Trappeur

I'll give you some good sound advice here. I certainly WOULD NOT give any candle to anyone since you are new to candlemaking. Candle making is a very serious business. You don't know anything about your wax, how the candle behaves, not even a wick size...it could be a VERY dangerous thing to give a product to someone and have that candle be overwicked thus possibily blowing up the glass with too hot a jar - so many things could happen. People burning candles tend to walk away and forget about them for hours and an improper product made could be a house fire. Minimum of months learning about making candle needs to be under your belt BEFORE I would even think to give to someone. You need to let the wax cure for a length of time like for example soy takes 2 weeks minimum to cure and then you start testing the wick if you even have the right wick and you have to burn that candle to the bottom and this depending upon how often you light candles you burn it for the week or 2 till gone. Most likely that wick isn't going to work, so now you start over and make another candle and go through this whole process again (we're talking weeks here to test)......This is a very time consuming hobby... This is not a crafty hobby that you just stick a wick in the wax, walk away till it hardens then you go and give to someone....it just isn't. Candlemaking is serious business and you definitely are not ready to giving out candles as gifts. Don't mean to come down hard on you believe me. It's just that so many people come here and are doing the same thing you are doing not knowing a thing about candles and already wanting to give out gifts, or go into busines etc. It just iritates me to see things like this said and I sit back and just think to my self...'oh boy'...I'm sorry, I just call a spade a spade and tell it as it is... safety is #1 priority in putting out a properly made candle. Trappeur

You really did pick a tough jar for a beginner....I don't even know myself. The bottom of that jar is a votive size pretty much. A 105 and 93 definitely are not going to get a melt pool across the top of that jar. It's going to be tunneling....but I would test it anyway right up to the end even with a tunnel as maybe the wax will catch up. But then there is the possibility if you get anywhere close to 1/2 to the edges in your melt pool that the wick is going to drown out. All you can do is test. Let us know how it goes. I'm very curious myself. Do you hae another style jar picked out ?? What fragrance oil did you go with and what percentage of oil did you use? Trappeur

Top of the morning to you Sebleo! We are the early birds! lol I didn't use that font you are talking about, but i did do a western font. Trappeur

My new western store account candle.

I know! Was that something? I never went in there to pickup an order......just to bring a surprise collection for her for Easter. She is a good good client. I already make her the large 20oz tureens and the little 5oz italian mason jars so now she has these. See it's amazing...my biggest store I sell to which is the apple orchard has the same exact pint canning jar that they sell for 14.00 a jar and here is another store just a couple miles down the road but in the heart of the business district and gets 20.00 a jar. It just goes to show how well you how you could have the same product just a few miles down the road and present them to sell in an entire different type of setting/theme of your shop and it makes all the world of difference. Granted I've decorated them much different and just by adding a tiny detail like the rust star makes or breaks it. The apple orchard they just shove the candles in and on a shelf and that's it. Nothing appealing to the display setting here what so ever. All the people care about is seeing the name of the shop on the label and they are sold. Now this other account is a beautiful classy home furnishings shop - just beautiful. She takes the time to set up the beautiful display of the candles and is very meticulous about how each and every product is displayed in her shop. Now she can command more money and she gets it. And we both are happy. The apple orchard the pint jar I wholesale them for 7.50 but I'm getting ready to up them to 8.00 a jar and they sell them I think for 14.95 And this other shop I wholesale them for 9.50 a jar and she gets 19.95 a jar..... I run to Save a Lot to buy my jars for 6.99 a case (no shipping) and all I have to do is change out the lids. Now I have to order these lids from Fillmore who is out of stock on them. I combed and combed the internet for this lid and no one else has it unless I want to pay 1.99 a lid....I need to be able to get these lids as they make the candle and now I'm sweating buckshot thinking I'm going to have future problems....Surely someone else out there carries them???So the hunt continues.... Yep 100 candles. I've come a long long way in this candle business. I used to make like maybe 15 to 20 candles a day. Now I can knock out 100 a day easily. Lots of little things I've learned along the way to speed up production and I do them all by myself in my jammies or sweats. ha ha ha Trappeur

Flamings is awesome. I call it cinnamon chai because you really smell the cinnamon Trappeur

Your work is gorgeous. Trappeur

I would highly suggest you spend time on this forum looking under wickless candles, general questions and in the fragrance section as you will find all your answers there. Spend a lot of time reading. All these questions you will get mixed answers from everyone. What works for this person doesn't mean it will work for you. You have to test test test and then do more tests, tests, tests. So I would go there now. Not meaning to shun away from your questions, but they are asked over and over and over again and all your answers will be in these sections. Trappeur

I've been watching those lids on Fillmore and they have been out of the galvanized olde tymy lids for weeks now. I sure hope they don't discontinue them. Does anyone know where I can order this lid elsewhere? They are about 63cents from Fillmore but double that price elsewhere. They are a shiny galvanized. Thanks. Trappeur

It reminds me of the "Northern Lights" up in Maine Trappeur

great label.....that will for sure catch the eye! Trappeur

For that jar typically a cd 8 or 10 should work. Trappeur

What size wicks are those?