Desertrose

Absolutely beautiful! And I love that you can so easily transform your decor to whatever season.

I'll give it the sniff test today It does look different though. The granules are bigger. I guess with nothing to compare it I didn't realise it looked different.

Tracy

I'm not sure. Hubby orders it, I just pour We're in Australia...not sure if what we get here is any different to what you guys get? I must say this is the first time we've had a problem.

Still weird though that it didn't affect the melts in any way. I find that very odd.

Bingo! absolutely without a doubt it was the wax!

Oh I am sooooo relieved!

Thanks! I am going to try and pour tomorrow with a totally new batch of wax (different type- a large feather this time) to see if this makes any difference.

I'm flummoxed.

For five years I have been pouring my "hippy pillars" with palm wax. Not a problem.

The last two batches I poured for some unknown reason are leeching oil....and a lot of it, to the point where they are slippery to hold and after a while this clouds on the surface and makes them look ...mouldy!

No...I am not pouring more FO than I should. I AM measuring, and yes my scales are ok.

Yes, I am measuring temperature and the FO is not being added when the wax is too cool.

I am stirring WELL.

I am using tried and tested fragrances...nothing new, nothing that could have been "changed" by the fragrance suppliers.

The very weird thing is....all the melts I have poured are perfectly OK. Not a problem at all with them.

I keep thinking it must be the wax then?

But still....this doesn't explain why the melts are ok, but the pillars are leaking.

Any ideas?

I have a lot of ass-y fragrances I'd like to get rid of.

Always puzzles me why candles are thought to be exclusively a "woman" thing.

Men have noses too!

Why do women wear "pretty" perfume?

You don't see US wearing cow pat fragrance to lure the outdoorsy hard working cowboy types in.

Thanks!

It's funny, I'm drawn to the round.....circles, curves... yet my sister hates anything circle like.

I DO like the effect on the squares though.

Next thing I'm going to try are ball candles. We've got one mold and are testing like crazy but to no avail. Just can't get the darn things to burn properly. Then again I've never actually bought and BURNT a ball candle so I'm not quite sure "how" they are supposed to burn. We just feel our attempts are leaving too much of a shell.

Anyone round here make palm ball candles?

These are some I've made today.

Scent is Sun shower.

Thanks guys

Well, at the very least I'll have a load of "stuff" for card making.

This clay is so addictive!

Hi, I've been experimenting with making scrapbooking embellishments, card making bits and pieces, etc from all this polymer clay that I have accumulated.

I don't actually scrapbook myself so I'm wondering if these are good enough?, interesting enough to sell to those that might use this sort of thing?

I will be starting some cardmaking myself, but probably just for friends and family.

I like it! Very arty.

I was laughing to myself watching your video. Everything is sooooo clean and orderly and "just so". It's like the candle making video from Hollywood!

Now ME in MY disaster zone candlemaking space.....lol! I'm more like an episode of I love Lucy, in a wax covered apron (when I remember to wear it!) surrounded by newespaper covered tables, wax dripping and sloshing every which way, bra-less and crazy bad hair!

I've considered making my own video but after watching yours I think I'll leave it to the neat and tidy "do it in style" folks

It's hard to please everyone. Sometimes, if you're established, I think you've got to stick to your guns and somewhat trademark your product with whatever the look IS that you have confidence in. (and that sells for you)

It's difficult though. We like our colours and our look and so do the majority of our market and party customers but the shops just want plain white (and boring, lol - to us.)

The danger I guess is that if you start going all over the place trying to please everyone then it might come across looking as though you lack confidence in your product.

Years ago I bought a kids winter jacket from the US. It had a furry trim around the hood which was removable. On this was a warning label that said "Do not eat."

I know you guys eat a lot of strange things over there but furry hoods?

To be honest I wouldn't want to take it out of the packaging because I love the label so much!

I also really like how the photograph in it's setting looks.

I wish we had room on our labels to put a scent description - that's something lately that I've been bugging dh about.

It seems the studies done have been on unscented/undyed candles - and thankfully they look pretty good! I wonder though if there have been studies done on the effects of scented candles.

It does concern me a little, working with such high concentrations of scent ( when pouring) and also having a constant large amount of scented candles being tested inside our home.

I really like them and would be drawn to them because of the label.

We don't use cans that have the plastic coating on the inside. Running them through the dishwasher works just fine to remove any food traces. (We eat off our plates that we wash in the dishwasher)

I would never reuse a can for food products but this is a candle which will be burned. I would imagine that you're far more likely to encounter microscopic bacteria from a food counter in a store making and selling sandwiches to the public than the risk of being harmed from a candle in a thoroughly washed tin container.

For us the value of being able to recycle something far outweighs the minuscule risk in this particular case.

I have more concerns about the glassware we buy - quality control, etc.

Sorry Stella, I usually agree with most of what you say but not in this case.

I can't imagine having ones own billboard!

My hubby saw this and said "I want one!" lol!

Congratulations and good luck

Yes, that could work. Only thing with us though is we didn't do what I advised you in my last post to do, lol! So, as a result we have quite a few scents that are the same colour!

I must say though that the glass jars work really well because they serve as storage for the melts (all sealed up) and they attract attention at shows and markets - the kids especially think they are some sort of candy in a jar so mothers go following their kids right to our stall.

He he...good strategy really!

Oceangazer, yes, they pick their combinations and it all goes in one bag. That is the only tricky part..... This morning actually I have a customer dropping by to pick up a bag of "those red melts that smelled like cinnamon". Luckily we only have ONE red melt that smells of cinnamon amongst the lot.

My advice would be to pick your scents and colours carefully if you go the pick and mix path.

I like Whispergirl's idea but if not I'd choose ivory.