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Have you got any of these for sale? I have a friend that is a total Mickey fan and would love to have this. Thanks.

So I've had this idea floating around in my head for a while now. I had a bit of extra time last night, so I played around with it and finally got a design that I'm happy with!

It's my Mickey Mouse version of a classic Daisy Chain!

I used the original Mickey colors - red, black, and yellow - but it could be done in any color combination. Christmas, Halloween, solid black, etc.

What do you guys think???

Do you have a picture? I'd like to see it. It sounds very unique.

I don't have one right now but I could take a picture of it. I'll try to do that this next week.

It's kind of a combination. I found the tanks on EBay and then my husband built a table for it. It was originally suppose to be mounted in a counter and used for dipping candles.

A wax table is basically a very large stainless steel water jacketed tank that holds a number of tubs (for lack of a better word) that hold your melted wax. Mine is approx. 7' long and holds six small tubs of colored wax and two larger tubs that I have white and yellow beeswax in. Each of the smaller tubs hold close to 30 lbs. of wax, the larger ones probably hold about 45-50 lbs. My wax is always melted and ready to use and my colors are always very consistent. I use gallon cans to dip the wax from the tubs and pour into pouring pitchers to mix colors and add fragrance. Works great!!! I don't know how I made candles without it!

As for the roasters, again I use coffee cans, gallon ketchup cans, etc. to dip the wax out of the roaster and pour into pouring pots. Not a perfect system but it works.

Hi

i was just wondering if anybody could point me in the direction of any info online about beeswax, i can find endless amount of info to do with soy etc but seem to be stuck.

Also im wondering if tarts/melts are a good seller, i havent had anything to do with them.

hope to hear,

lj

Good luck, when I first started making beeswax candles, I had a very hard time finding any "non-scientific" information about beeswax. If you're looking for reading material you just have to pick up bits and pieces anywhere you can find them.

I can try to help you with any questions you have.

Before I got my wax table, I used two electric roasters. I kept them filled at all times with melted beeswax (one for white, one for yellow) then filled my pouring pots from them. Not the best system but it worked just fine and the roasters are VERY easy to keep the wax at exactly the right temp.

Of course, I wouldn't recommend using the roasters for food any more.

Are you willing to share your formula?

Sorry, but no.

Lynn S.

Not that I'm trying to take business away from you but, If you would like to refer him to me, I make 100% beeswax candles and, if he is intent on burning a candle, an unscented beeswax candle would probably be the answer.

LAVENDER, VANILLA AND, worst of all, PEACHES AND CREAM!!!!! :(

Does anyone know a good way to keep your candles from melting at craft shows this time of year. I'm thinkig of doing one, and I thought that maybe a cooler with no ice would help. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Make beeswax candles!!!! :laugh2: :laugh2: Mine have survived temps of 112 and look wonderful! (Sorry, don't mean to gloat)

I do a spiced cider with beeswax that is about 3 parts yellow to one part brown and just a touch of red. It looks a lot like apple cider.

Also, my sage and citrus is a very muted green.

I just used my reject tea lights to make chunks. They are all scented differently and then I overpour with unscented wax. Makes for some interesting scented candles.

As for storing, I simply have a basket of reject tea lights sitting in my shop and cut the chunks whenever I decide to make the candles.

I fill my mold up with chunks to the top, then i pour wax over. This makes it so you have more chunks sticking out. :smiley2:

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That's how I did mine. Then I added a few more chunks on top to make sure I had some sticking out.

Try it with pillars. Looks great!!!

Just a thought, but since you were happy with 1&1 why not stay with them for e-commerce? I did and I'm building my site now.

I agree, I have 1&1 and am very happy with them.

I love making all natural products for personal use and selling. there is no greater feeling than to have repeat customers rave about the products I make. I love trying new recipes and am always trying to find new things to make.

I get frustrated a lot when things don't work out as they should but I have learned to have patience and figure things out.

I love trying to market my products even though it also gets frustrating.

But, the thing I like the most about my business is the independence it has offered me. I went from working a full time job as a paralegal to being a full time (and more) candlemaker, soaper, aromatherapist, etc. (since I do everything from honey barbeque sauce to candle, soap, lotions, lip balms, etc., I'm never really sure what to call myself) and I replaced my paralegal income in less than two years!

I also wanted to go big time but am satisfied with what I am doing now.

I found this thread because I had a terrible time at the beginning of June where the wind was horrible. I have a Caravan 10 X 10 and had 40 lb weights on each leg. The wind was horrible and gusty and at one point a huge gale force gust came up off the lake and it took 5 of us to hold my tent down. The legs along with the weights were off the ground! I was so freaked out I am now afraid to do another craft fair in fear of the wind. I guess I need heavier weights. What do you all use for weights and how heavy are they?

Just did a show where my neighbor had the best weight system I have ever seen. He developed and sells the weights himself. Go to the webiste www.ez-weights.com and watch the video of the weights in action. We have always tied down with dog pegs and straps but I just ordered my weights from Richard and I can't wait to get them.

We have never had any problems with our ez up but we also make sure we tie down very securely.

Actually each batch of soap I make takes a different amount of time to trace even using the same EO's. Don't be alarmed. Just be sure to wait until you get a trace or you risk the soap not turning out.

I know this question has been asked before but, I need to find a supplier for lip balm flavors.

the flavors I'm looking for are:

strawberry

banana

peach

mango

lemonade

raspberry

bubble gum

Thanks in advance!

I add 1 T honey just after taking the oils off the heat. It does leave "spots" in the soap but they disappear by the time the soap cures.

Thanks, I will try that.

Those look great. I just did the same thing this week. I took a bunch of tea lights that were not good enough for sale or were extras, cut them in chunks and poured over with white wax. They turned out really cool. I'm anxious to see if they sell.

Just a quick addition, I have NEVER had one of the 4" pillars do this.

HELP!!!

I have been having problems making my 100% beeswax candles lately. Have been pouring candles for about 5 years now.

I make 3"x6, 3"x5" and 3"x4" pillar candles, tea lights and votives. All the pillar and tea light molds are poly. Votive molds are metal. I pour at about 160 degrees. Sometimes, not always, the 6" and 5" pillars, the tea lights and the votives will get sink holes. The pillar candles always around the wick, the tea lights and votives in a circle around the diameter of the candle.

I can re-pour the votives, and sometimes the tea lights, but the poly pillar molds do not allow me to re-pour.

Usually when I make a batch of candles I make each size pillar, 1 doz. tea lights and 1 doz. votives from the same batch.

Any ideas why this happens some times and not all the time?

I have had much better luck selling my soap since packaging it in boxes that I designed myself (actually my son designed them with my imput).

I agree, the rental fee on top of a commission seems a bit much. Especially if, just when you get things going really good and have to increase your space in the shop, she's going to charge you more rent.

I personally have never had very good luck with consignment so I'm not a very good judge.