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Thursday, April 8, 2010

Tea Cup Candles

Project of the moment - tea cup candles. I made a few of these for craft fairs, and have sold some in our space at the mall. Now I get requests. So I got out all the supplies and spent Friday evening pouring candles. As usual nothing goes without a hitch. I didn't like the appearance of 5 of the candles, so I popped them in the freezer and then popped the wax block out of the cup, and spent a good portion of the morning remelting and remoulding. Then I attached the saucer to the cup, and tied a ribbon around each one. the very first time I made these and tied a ribbon around them my daughter said to me that I should make sure customers know to remove the ribbon from the cup before they lite the candle. She was right. That will be the finishing touch on this batch of candles. I also had a couple of cups without saucers and was thinking perhaps I would go to the goodwill store to see if I could find a couple of saucers. Then it occured to me - I have an entire booth full of bowls, saucers, glasswhere, jewelry cards (you get the picture). A quick trip to the store and I had a few of my individual saucers to help finish up the project.
Maybe tomorrow I will finish the quilt blocks and work on the baby quilt I am making. Maybe.

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