Homemade Candles Made Easy: DIY Candles for Gifting Ideas & Home Decoration on a Budget: DIY Decoration and Aromatherapy

By Amber Powell

Homemade Candles: DIY Candles for Gifting Ideas & Home Decoration on a Budget

Do you know the wide range of designs and choices you can make in candle making?

Right now, you probably have heard of making homemade candles. Did you know that expensive readymade candles can also be recreated at the comforts of your own homes using cost efficient supplies and materials? Did you know that candles make excellent gifts and decorations because you can create one-of-a-kind items that perfectly match your recipient and home?

If you want to express your creativity and you are in search of a hobby that can allow this, then candle making is for you. If you want to make your gifts unique and you want to have the perfect decoration for your home, then candle making is for you.

If you want to develop or refine your candle making skills, then this book is for you. If you want to know the supplies, materials and steps you need to make candles, this book will provide this information. If you want to make not only traditional but also modern trends in candle making, along with other ideas to further improve your candles, this book has this information.

Inside You Will Learn about:

• History of candles and candle making
• Modern trends and techniques
• Advantages of candles as gifts and as home decorations
• Shopping for supplies and prepare the budget
• Melting the wax and other basic steps in candle making
• Ensuring safety
• How to make, taper, pillar and votive candles
• How to make container, water, rolled, floating, ball and designer candles
• How to make your own candle molds
• Other supplies and materials to decorate your candle
• How to recycle old candles
• Candle symbols, colors and scents

Once you have the idea about the candle making steps and trends, then you are more than ready to begin giving gifts and decorating your home with traditional and modern candles.

Don’t wait another minute. The sooner you learn about candle making skills, the sooner you can start with this worthwhile hobby.

Don’t Delay. Download This Book Now.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Guava Books
• Release date: Feb 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386503804

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Introduction

Homemade candles are gaining popularity because it allows you to express your creativity into something meaningful, such as a gift or as a decoration for your home. The accessibility of candle making supplies allows the hobby to be practiced by anyone interested in the craft.

There is a wide range of candle types that you can choose from, from the traditional taper candles to the more modern candles that do not make use of wax at all. Candles produce not only light but also scents, ambiance and interesting conversation pieces.

This book guides you in making different kinds of candles both traditional and modern, making use of current trends, like color and scents. It also shows you the list of the supplies, materials and equipment you need for the hobby. There are also tips and tricks on how to solve common candle making problems like the sinkhole, an uncooperative wick and other issues.

Aside from actual candle making, more ideas about candle decorations, recycling, making molds and candle symbols are also included in this book.

Chapter One: Candle-Making

In this chapter, you will learn about the:

History of candles and candle making

Modern trends and techniques in candle making

Advantages of candles as gifts and as home decorations

History

As far back as 260 B.C., candles have already been made around the world using varieties of techniques from different cultures and civilizations. The oldest proof of candles’ role in history is the discovery of a Chinese emperor’s mausoleum. Candles, were made of whale fat, surrounded the imperial crypt along with precious bronze wares that were meant to hold candles. Aside for candle used as a source of light, candles were also used to tell the time. Marks are drawn on the wax itself, when the wax melts to a certain point; it means an hour has passed.

A more exotic type of candle, this time made by the indigenous people of Alaska, was actually a fish with a protruding stick where it was lighted. Fast forward to the Middle Ages,