apple candles

Well shoot I thought I had a picture of them lit up.  Anyway we made these candles for the table.  They look really pretty once they burn down a little and the whole apple lights up. 

Dinner Candle

The boys and I are taking a waldorf parent tot class together every Tuesday.  I love the little crafts we get to do together.  This week we decorated a wax candle.  Its currently sitting on the nature table, but I hope to eventually use it as our dinner candle.  

Snow Candles

We finally got around to making snow candles. I've been wanting to do this for so long. We've also gotten better at lighting a candle during dinner so we were in need of some new candles.

First we melted the wax. Then we dug little holes in the snow. I was so sure that when we poured the wax it it would melt the snow and make a huge hole, but nope, the wax began to harden as soon as we poured it in.

Here are the candles beginning to harden.

Our finished products. They are funny shapes, but they turned out great.

Here is one of our candles lit for dinner.

Valentines Day Crayons

Happy Valentines Day!

For K's friends this year, we made red lips and hearts crayons.

Thanksgiving Candles

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! We had a nice Thanksgiving at my mother's house with my family and also my Mother-in-law's family. It was nice to have everyone together this year. Because food has still been grossing me out, K and I made candles to contribute to dinner. I found the idea in LivingCraft magazine.

First we carved out the middle of two orange halves and a pomegranate. Then we used scissors to make jagged edges. Finally we filled them with melted beeswax.


They looked great on the Thanksgiving table.

Beeswax leaves

K and I collected fall leaves again this year to dip in beeswax. K was able to help a little bit more this year and was in charge of laying out the dipped leaves (1st picture). The last picture is the leaves on the nature table. They turned out great.

Shell Candles

I've seen these here and there on the internet and have been wanting to make them. It was surprisingly labor intensive as I had to hold each wick still while the wax dried. Ha ha. I'm sure there is an easier way. It was fun anyway though and they turned out nice.

Colored beeswax

We spent some time decorating our egg beeswax candles the other day. K recieved colored moldable beeswax for his birthday and we hadn't used any of it yet. K had made a really neat one, however, destroyed before we could stop him. Oh well we'll make more soon as these are our last three candles. I'm thinking we're going to try taper candles next.

Making beeswax lanterns

Fill a water balloon with water and dip it in melted beeswax. (melt your beeswax in a double boiler).
Dip the balloon several times making sure to flatten the bottom on the counter in-between dips.
We then painted the leaves with melted beeswax using a stick to put them on our lanterns. Then we dipped the lanterns two more times.

For mother's day C and I also made our mothers and grandmothers these lanterns. I found the idea on this website:

http://morningsunrae.blogspot.com/2009/11/beeswax-lantern-tutorial.html

It was a great tutorial and the only thing we changed was how to get the leaves on without using a glue gun or having the leaves stick together. We ended up using a stick to paint the leaves with melted beeswax to get them to stick. It worked pretty well.

Thanks Rae for posting such a great tutorial we had a great time making these and our mothers loved them. :)

Egg Candles

For my birthday my husband bought me beeswax so we could start making candles. We made our first candles in egg shells. I got the idea from http://childhoodmagic.blogspot.com/. It was an easy process, although we need to tweak a few things the next time we try it. We've been using the candles at dinner and I plan to put some on the nature table come spring (only 10 days away!)
I'm hoping to try dipping candles next time, although I need to find a nice tall tin to melt the wax in.