Well Julius and Patricia once again get the best kiddo award. We took a long road trip this past weekend and they were real troopers. I had low expectations for the trip, but they far surpassed them! Let’s hope they can pull it off a few more times… but that might be a lot to ask of the little guys.
We’ve been having some renovations (understatement) going on for the past several months (read: 3 contractors at the exact same time, working on completely different projects). This means I’ve had to pack up my craft room, my kitchen equipment, and my tool shop leaving very little in the way of blogging material. I have lots of ideas stacking up on the backburner but I’ve had no time to execute. I just can’t wait until I get my creative space back to usable! Instead I’ll have to treat you to one of the projects from the archive. This one is a bit of a recycle craft.
We have so many bottlecaps that we’ve saved over the years, that I’ve been trying to think of what to do with them. Julius has no problem thinking of ideas; he loves to play with bottlecaps. He sorts them, makes them into tiny boats, pretends they are people and just plain scatters them everywhere. I haven’t come up with much to do with them, except making some tiny candles! I thought they’d be a perfect addition to a relaxing bubble bath, so I made up a bunch of them for my spa ladies’ night. Julius helped me perfect the recipe and even time how long they burned (he begged me to burn all of them after we made them). It was pretty neat to watch them burn down, and the cotton string worked really well.
Micro Candles
- 3oz beeswax, grated
- 50 drops essential oils
- 25 bottle caps
- 1 yard cotton kitchen twine – burns for 30 to 40 min
- Cut cotton twine into 25 1″ pieces.
- Place beeswax in a double boiler, heat until beeswax melts.
- Remove beeswax from heat and add in 50 drops of essential oil of your choice.
Adding essential oils.
This picture is so old… Julius is still sucking his fingers!! My big guy hasnt done that in months!! - Dip end of cotton twine into beeswax, and place beeswax onto center of bottlecap to secure. Let dry.
- Repeat step 4 for other 24 bottlecaps.
- If wax has started to harden, gently heat it again. (Be careful not to get any wax on your burners, beeswax is extremely flammable!)
- Carefully pour the wax into each bottlecap, filling to the top. Let dry.
- Repeat step 7 for other 24 bottlecaps.
Micro candles will burn for 30 to 40 minutes. (Julius and I timed them)
Monitoring our candle burn
