Yay! So we finally got around to doing a project for our home together. We've been talking about decorating our place for ages with ideas we see on Pinterest and Etsy, but came across this project on Instructables and decided we HAD to do it.
The link for the project can be found here if you're interested in making candles too:
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First, we melted some stick candles from Ikea.
We reused the wicks. We used about 15 in total. |
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| These are the paper molds that we folded. As you can tell, the white one is no good. |
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We painted over them with latex wall paint to seal all the joints from leaking.
I recommend doing 2 layers. We only did 1 and it leaked from the cracks. |
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| As the wax was melting, we selected our colors for the candles. |
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| Plop! There goes the crayon. |
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| It's melting! |
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| Pouring the first candle! |
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| Success. High five! |
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| Our first batch done. |
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| The giant mess on the stovetop. |
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| Figuring out which crayons to melt next. |
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| We left the first batch out to harden overnight. |
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| The next morning. Time to peel! |
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| Repeat process. Batch 2: Blue, Baby Blue, and Lime Green. |
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| Altogether. |
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| Smiles |
So all in all, we are so proud to have actually worked on a project together. The entire project cost around 40 HKD and took around two evenings.
