Candles

[azurelunatic]

It's fairly obvious that this household does a lot with candles. Since we save our leftover wax, this leads to a lot of leftover wax.

Dipping candles is a bit of a pain, and takes a long time and lots of attention. We don't have the equipment for it anyway. Molds would be better, but we're not equipped for that either.

So, today was candle-reworking time. I put taper candles in jars (in two cases, in saved Kool Whip containers) and kept layering on the molten wax as I melted it down.

Some of them are already hardened. The rest are chilling in the refrigerator. I'm a happy Lunatic (if tired, for unspecified reasons).

Comments

[waywind.livejournal.com]

I was reading this and went like, "You mean tapir candles." Then I went, "No, wait, that's the right spelling for the candles. Tapirs are those chubby things with the odd noses."

Now I'm wondering if there is such a thing as a tapir candle.

Candles shaped like animals bother me, anyway. "I'm meltiiiing..."

[boojum.livejournal.com]

So were you melting the wax in containers above the candles or dumping wax bits into the containers with the candles?

[azurelunatic]

Melting wax bits in jars in a pot of hot water on the stove, then sticking taper candles in other jars and pouring hot wax around the tapers and chilling.

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

You know, when I was little, we used to use cream cartons for candle molds. You can also use 1/2 gallon milk cartons. Any kind of waxed cardboard, actually. And then you just cut the mold off the candle, use a knife to cut the candle out of the mold if you want to try to use it again.

[azurelunatic]

Hmm.

Pity we get our milk in gallons.