Love Diy: Matchstick Beeswax Candles
Wednesday 25 January 2012
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Guest post service yesteryear Margie Oomen of Resurrection Fern
Here is Margie Oomen's instant DIY, Matchstick Beeswax Candles. These footling candles await adorable packaged inwards matchboxes that yous tin customize using blackboard paint.
Matchstick Beeswax Candles
Materials:
beeswax birthday candles
ruddy beeswax (can live on purchased at your local arts and crafts render store or online)
Take a footling slice of ruddy beeswax the size of a footling fingertip into your warm hands. When it is moldable encompass the tip of the candle alongside it, making certain non to encompass the wick, yes then it looks similar a match. Empty a matchbox as well as house around candle matches inside. If yous desire to yous tin customize a matchbox or matchbook yesteryear paradigm it alongside a few layers of blackboard pigment as well as afterwards 24 hrs writing a personal message alongside chalk. (See images below for examples).
Margaret Oomen, a rural doc as well as stuff artist, has been a gatherer as well as maker of things for equally far dorsum equally she tin remember. Aside from a spinning as well as printmaking class, she is completely self-taught. She draws her inspiration from her treasure-hunting family, particularly her begetter a mathematician as well as electrical engineer, her scientific (biochemistry as well as synthetic organic chemistry) as well as medical backgrounds, as well as her corking abide by as well as dear of the natural world. Her move tin live on flora at resurrectionfern.ca. She lives inwards Ontario alongside her husband, 4 children, 3 cats as well as a snail named fern.
Site: resurrectionfern.ca
Shop: etsy.com/shop/knitalatte
Blog: resurrectionfern.typepad.com
Here is Margie Oomen's instant DIY, Matchstick Beeswax Candles. These footling candles await adorable packaged inwards matchboxes that yous tin customize using blackboard paint.
Matchstick Beeswax Candles
Materials:
beeswax birthday candles
ruddy beeswax (can live on purchased at your local arts and crafts render store or online)
Take a footling slice of ruddy beeswax the size of a footling fingertip into your warm hands. When it is moldable encompass the tip of the candle alongside it, making certain non to encompass the wick, yes then it looks similar a match. Empty a matchbox as well as house around candle matches inside. If yous desire to yous tin customize a matchbox or matchbook yesteryear paradigm it alongside a few layers of blackboard pigment as well as afterwards 24 hrs writing a personal message alongside chalk. (See images below for examples).
Stay tuned for Margie's final DIY - (Psssst! the final paradigm is a hint)!
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Margaret Oomen, a rural doc as well as stuff artist, has been a gatherer as well as maker of things for equally far dorsum equally she tin remember. Aside from a spinning as well as printmaking class, she is completely self-taught. She draws her inspiration from her treasure-hunting family, particularly her begetter a mathematician as well as electrical engineer, her scientific (biochemistry as well as synthetic organic chemistry) as well as medical backgrounds, as well as her corking abide by as well as dear of the natural world. Her move tin live on flora at resurrectionfern.ca. She lives inwards Ontario alongside her husband, 4 children, 3 cats as well as a snail named fern.
Site: resurrectionfern.ca
Shop: etsy.com/shop/knitalatte
Blog: resurrectionfern.typepad.com