The Candle Maker's Log Book


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A Useful 8 x 10 Inch 104-Page Candle Making Tracker Log Book 50 templated sheets for recording in-depth notes as you mix and pour your candle creations. Keep your crafting notes, important data, and ideas all in one place with this handy hobby book. An all-in-one log book that is a toolbox essential for any serious candle maker! Printed on white paper with a soft matte cover. Inner pages featuring: Batch Details including Date, Batch Name, and Important Batch Notes Candle type with tickboxes Wax type with tickboxes, wax brand, quality, pour temperature and melt temperature Detailed notes for fragrance, dye, and wick used Additional details such as if the container was warmed, if mold release was used, and how long the batch cured for Reverse sheet for conducting burn test, including measuring throw (hot and cold), melt pool, flame details, and notes Overall rating Front pages for index of all batches included in book Beautiful front cover




Candlemaking


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Candlemaking is an ancient and highly enjoyable art. In this comprehensive book, readers will learn how to create many different kinds of candles including flame candles, balloon candles, and pudding candles. There are dozens of different styles to choose from, and the skill levels range from beginner to expert.




The Everything Candlemaking Book


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Now, with The Everything Candlemaking Book, you can enjoy the charm of candles every day, rather than reserve them only for holidays or fancy dinner parties. Home candlemaking is not only much more economical than buying premade candles--it's also a lot more fun! The Everything Candlemaking Book is a complete guide to making all kinds of candles at home, beginning with what you need to get started. Easy-to-follow steps lead you through the process of candlemaking--from making simple tapers and columns to layered, moulded, twisted, and more. Beautiful full-color photographs provide inspiration for creativity, whether you're designing your own unique shapes and color combinations or attempting advanced techniques. This guide includes all you need to know to get started: tools and supplies needed instructions on how to make candles for holidays and special occasions artistic techniques, such as chip, twisted, and applique candles guidance on using unique containers tips on how to incorporate candles into rituals hints on adding scents and personal touches to your candles and so much more! With The Everything Candlemaking Book, you'll be making homemade candles for yourself and your friends in no time!




Night and the Candlemaker


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As the candlemaker works, Night comes creeping through the town and slides under the door of his workshop, whispering fearful threats. Surrounded by such sinister murmuring, and all alone in the darkness, how can the candlemaker be sure that his work is not in vain?




Making Hand-Dipped Candles


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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.




Murder Makes Scents


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Stella Wright loves creating candles at her Nantucket store—and she also has a burning passion for justice. Now, after visiting a perfume conference, she must solve a vial crime . . . Stella and her globe-trotting mom, Millie, have come home from a perfume industry conference in Paris, where their trip was marred by witnessing the stabbing death of a young man. It’s a relief for Stella to be back on her picturesque island, with the comforting company of her cat, Tinker. But lingering danger may have followed them back across the ocean. After someone breaks into her candle store, the Wick & Flame, Stella starts feeling spooked. And just as things threaten to ignite, Millie suffers a blow to the head. Stella receives an anonymous note claiming that her mother smuggled a secret formula out of France—and threatening her life if it isn’t returned. Now Stella’s picked up the scent of a cold-hearted criminal and an intriguing puzzle, and things are about to get wicked . . .




Encyclopedia Of Candlemaking Techniques


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Relax and unwind in the warm and mesmerizing glow of candles! This visual A-to-Z directory delves into the wide range of designs and techniques for candlemaking. Features a step-by-step demonstration of how to handle the materials as well as a gallery of works by professional artists--to inspire readers to create their own unique designs. Alphabetically organized by materials and techniques.




Basic Candle Making


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Each step illustrated with color photos. Includes how to avoid common mistakes plus information on scents and dyes.




Becoming Ben Franklin


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In 1723 Ben Franklin arrived in Philadelphia as a poor and friendless seventeen-year-old who had run away from his family and an apprenticeship in Boston. Sixty-two years later he stepped ashore in nearly the same spot but was greeted by cannons, bells, and a cheering crowd, now a distinguished statesman, renowned author, and world-famous scientist. Freedman's riveting story of how a rebellious apprentice became an American icon comes in an elegantly designed book filled with art and includes a timeline, source notes, bibliography, and index




The Scented Candle Workshop


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'Their combined passion for fragrance is infectious, and they love teaching.' Telegraph Not only is candle making and scent development a wonderfully relaxing craft, it is also a unique way to create personalised gifts or to create a signature scent for your own home or special event. Earl of East London Paul and Niko of Earl of East London share the secrets behind the gorgeously scented candles they create at their studio. As well as the basic steps required to prepare and pour candles at home, the pair include a fascinating exploration of the art of building scent, so you too can create your own signature fragrances. Paul and Niko are devoted to capturing memories and feelings in scent, and explain how to combine different essential oils to trigger different emotions, whether that may be a recollection childhood holidays conjured up by a hint of mandarin and seaweed, or an imagined walk in your grandparents' garden, scented with basil and parsley.