Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Melting down Candles...

old candles in containers melting down




*jars*

Pouring the red wax into the jars.

*vanilla*




*homespun*

Lizzy and Susanna

4 comments:

Deena - said...

Cool!! Or...hot I should say! ;-) Did you just mix all the old fragrances???? They look great!

Whalen Family said...

We divided the colors. Anything close to white went in the vanilla batch (we added vanilla), and anything close to red we put in the red batch (we added cherry flavoring). We saved all the green ones for another time. We also had to repour the tops of the candles in the morning because so many sunk during the night around the wicks.
It was a learning experience.
Beverly

Anonymous said...

Very interesting, I have never seen that done before. What are the pencils on top of the jars for? I enjoyed this!
Jen

Whalen Family said...

We used the pencils to hold the wicks in place, also we used other things that would do but the pencils were the most readily available!