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For our tealights, we use the Tealight Cups from Peak along with TL-28 1" wicks. We've made and sold a few thousand tealights and never have had any issue with them. In addition we have personally burned about 100 of our own tealights without any wick problems or any other issues. First thing that really comes to mind is how many different leftover pours were these tealight(s) made from? Were they different scents or over several batches of the same scent? I would say just destroy the other tealights from this batch, obviously something isn't right with them.

Well actually sell ours the large size clamshell for $5.00 and they do really well at that price. I just don't see where $3.00 would be considered a pretty good profit. Is that everything included in the cost to make them? Just curious..

Here's a link on how to protect your images from being downloaded. Since I work in IT for my day job I figured I would put it to use.. http://www.naturefocused.com/articles/image-protection.html I would look at item #5 which talks about using Javascript to disable the ability for anyone to right click on your website. Thus eliminating the ability to Save Image As. HTH, Sean

We use 1oz per pound and that works for most scents from Candle Science. But, we have noticed that few would be better with more than 1oz.

Also, do some searching of posts on this forum. I can attest that there's a wealth of information on here about things to check and try if you are having scent throw issues. ...testing is also just a big part of the process.. Boy, does my bank account know that!

Congrats!

Well, as far as sales it was ok.. But, we did learn some important lessons coming out of that show.

Sorry, been meaning to get back and answer the questions people have had.. Though a nasty cold virus has invaded our house.. (1) What's in the baskets? We have sample sniffers (of the scents) in the baskets (they are in little 1oz glass bottles). In the drawers we have tealights in each of our scents. This was the first show that we had tried this type of setup (allowing people to mix and match a set of tealights). Our logic was to allow people to sniff each of the scents and then choose what scents they wanted (in regards to tealights). But, we found out that this didn't work that well. Even with a few signs pointing out that they can mix and match scents. So, since this was a two day show, on the second day we turned around the drawer sets to let people help themselves to the tealights. This did prove to have much better results, so the baskets that are in front of the tealight drawers were removed. (2) Did you make the table cloths? No, we did purchase those online. The cost for all 3 tables cloths was $150 (so $50 for each table). Which for the quality is much better than other places we had looked. Not going to advertise anyone in the post, but if you would like the URL for where we got them from (just send a PM). JacquiO - Thank you, that's what I've been telling my wife is that we do need to add some height to our booth. Any other comments or suggestions (critiques) are greatly appreciated..

Here's some photos of our booth setup for this last weekend...

We've been using silicone spatulas, because with the wooden spoon was causing a reaction with the wax once it cured. Basically it was causing a pattern to form at the top of the candle. Just wash them after each use, and have been using them for over 3 months now without any problems.

For our labels I use Adobe Illustrator, since we have a label template that we use. Then just change the scent name, and save it for Microsoft Office. Yes, it does take some knowledge to figure out how to get it to do what I wanted it to do. Youtube is a good place for information on using the programs though. Not a cheap program by any means, but over time you would make that cost back.

We take 30 scents, then of each scent we take 2 of each of our products (Set of tealights which is 13, 8oz Tureen and Pack of tarts). Unless we know that it is a popular scent, then we will up the amount to 4 of that scent.

We roll with the 3 T's. Tarts Tureen (8oz) Tealights With 30 scents available. Works well for us..

Here's a few helpful suggestion that I use. (1) Watermark all your product images. Thus no one can just copy it from your website, without your watermark showing up on the image. Personally I put our website address in a corner of the image. (2) Copyscape http://www.copyscape.com/, helps you track plagiarism of your website. (3) There is a piece of javascript that you could add to your <head></head> tags of your website to prevent people from right clicking on your website. Here's a link to some of the javascript: http://www.java-scripts.net/javascripts/No-Right-Click.phtml There is no 100% way to prevent people from copying your stuff. But these should at least help deter 90% of those who thought about it. HTH! Sean

I sent you a PM Candlelady..