Guest guest Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 Wow your honeyglow pots are too cute. They remind me of hurricane candles. Is it the same process? You are selling them really inexpensively. Are you making any profit given the price of bees wax and the time and effort you use to make them?Candles and Supplies in PA sells bees wax atr the best price I have seen. Also if you live near an ACe , s, or JoAnne Fabrics you can use their weekly coupons for 40%-50% off and save on shipping. Get your family and friends to save the coupon for you and you can go several times and stock up weekly. Thats my plan to make beeswax ornaments. Once again I really thought your pots are really nice. Simple thoughts from Buffalo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 In a message dated 10/6/2004 8:10:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time, dove_14204@... writes: s, or JoAnne Fabrics you can use their weekly coupons for 40%-50% off and save on shipping. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Do they carry beeswax? Beth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 THanks for the compliments. Those are ones i did in the spring. They arn't really all too big and only take a few ounces of wax so yeah they are fairly inexpensive. However I just got done making a series of winter ones With victorian images of kids with sleds and Santa and such. These ones I ended up making a bit larger. So I had to change the price to $5.00 Plus I added a string of bead like beads around the top instead of the flowers. Are they made like Hurrican candles probably not. I have no idea how to make hurrican candles. I just take a balloon and dip it in hot wax a few times. apply my image and dip a few more. and pop the balloon out. Just light a tiny tea light inside. And enjoy the glowing scent. Of course doing it this way i do happen to get differant sizes but i am woking on figuring out a better way. They are So much fun to make, but you have to keep the pot full of hot wax which is why i need quite alot of it. I used to get the wax from Joanns and Micheals with the coupons but they no longer have the 50% off coupons just 40% and by it just seems like im over spending. It comes out to like $8 a pound or so. But we do do the whole coupon trick, even take micheals coupons to joannes and Joanns to micheals. We are working on stuff for a weding currently so most of the coupons have been going for that but NO ONE takes my coupons. They are for my use only. Thanks again though for the comments. and good luck on your onrnaments. > > Wow your honeyglow pots are too cute. They remind me of hurricane candles. Is it the same process? You are selling them really inexpensively. Are you making any profit given the price of bees wax and the time and effort you use to make them?Candles and Supplies in PA sells bees wax atr the best price I have seen. Also if you live near an ACe , s, or JoAnne Fabrics you can use their weekly coupons for 40%-50% off and save on shipping. Get your family and friends to save the coupon for you and you can go several times and stock up weekly. Thats my plan to make beeswax ornaments. Once again I really thought your pots are really nice. Simple thoughts from Buffalo. > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 Yes Beth they carry 1lb blocks of beeswax. Look in their candle making sections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 You have me really interested in your process. Making hurricane is a lot like the process you are using. You use high melt point candle wax and a water bath fill you pillar molds with the wax place the mold in the water and allow the wax to begin hardening, once you acheive the thickness desired you pour the exess wax back into your pour pot allow the mold to cool down enough to remove the wax shell. You place a voltive holder inside the shell and a voltive candle and the light shines through the shell. I'm curiuos why the ballon doesn't pop with the heat of the wax. I'm also curious if you can use other waxes beside beeswax. I know you like the scent of the beeswax. I'm thinking if you used another high melt point wax you could also use fragrance oil. This is so neat. The possibilities are endless. Let me know what you think > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 >They carry 3 kinds of beeswax, they have 1 lb blocks of pure beeswax, and 1 lb blocks of white, unscented beeswax and small packets of beeswax pellets. > Do they carry beeswax? > > Beth > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 lol lol lol well i will tell ya one time the balloon did actually pop. and boy was that a mess. I had the wax too hot i guess and so i was afraid to do it again for a while for fear it would happen again but I did try it again and now i think ive got it down good. What i do now is i turn the burner up to medium (use a double boiler) then once the water heats up I turn it down on low for a few hours til it melts fully and I make my glows. I probably would like the hurricane technique you explained but I put the picture on it and I have no idea how i would go about that if i did any other way. you probably could use another kind of wax i dont see why not. As you said you can really do anything. I have even thought of some how swirling a bit of color into one of the final layers of wax and see what i get. but I havnt done it. > > > You have me really interested in your process. Making hurricane is a lot like the process you are using. You use high melt point candle wax and a water bath fill you pillar molds with the wax place the mold in the water and allow the wax to begin hardening, once you acheive the thickness desired you pour the exess wax back into your pour pot allow the mold to cool down enough to remove the wax shell. You place a voltive holder inside the shell and a voltive candle and the light shines through the shell. I'm curiuos why the ballon doesn't pop with the heat of the wax. I'm also curious if you can use other waxes beside beeswax. I know you like the scent of the beeswax. I'm thinking if you used another high melt point wax you could also use fragrance oil. This is so neat. The possibilities are endless. Let me know what you think > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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