I saw this link I will post below that someone posted on a candle forum after yet another candle make had posted a YouTube of the worst bashing I have ever heard of paraffin wax! This YouTube I will link to does a very good and informative explanation of paraffin, palm, and soy wax. Hope it works, can't test it until I publish it!
http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=JIJxjAUUaJ4&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DniByF8xHPQI%26list%3DUU-Znny2_fN1XXq88QdENAyQ%26feature%3Dshare%26index%3D21
Things have been slow in the candle shop this summer. Of course I was expecting it to be, many people don't burn candles that much during the hot summer months. Many are on vacations or like my son's children are busy all summer long with softball. Softball has seemed to really gain popularity in the last couple of years. My granddaughters love it and it seems they have practice about every day and games every week-end! I really don't see how working parents manage! My daughter-in-law is a school teacher so she has the summer off and can make a workable schedule for the girls!
School starts back for my county Friday. I remember when I was young and I was always ready for school to start back after what seemed like a long summer. Anxious to see my friends again and I enjoyed school. Mother always made sure I got a new hair permanent and had a new outfit to wear my first day! School was so much simplier back in the day. Now they give you a long list of supplies you have to buy for your school year and you absolutely have to have a new book bag with your name or initials monagrammed on it! Back "in the day" we just carried our books in our arms. I remember I did have a - think we called it a "book satchel" one time but it was just to much trouble to carry. Now the ones they use and all the "stuff" they have in them will give every child a bad back! I won't even talk about how expensive it is now. Parents with many children will go broke just getting them ready for back to school!
I will be adding several new fall scents to my web page in the next few days. I have been testing them and so far am really liking them. Of course that's my kind of scents - spicy and bakery! I don't remember if I have blogged since I started making candles with wood wicks but I am really liking them. (Memory is another of "those things" that goes away when you get my age)! You can actually hear the sizzle & crackle sound they make. Feel like you are sitting by an open fire place and it is cold outside even though it is actually 100 degrees but you are cooling it in your air conditioned room! The wood wick candles are only available in two size jars and a tumbler.
I have been making several chunk pillars this summer and one customer said they were to pretty to burn and I do agree with her! I told her I would just have to make her some ugly ones to burn! I love chunk pillars with the different color chunks in them! They are fun to make also!
Well, that just about covers all that I can think of at the moment. I really need to get up from this computer and clean house and wash a load of clothes. I have let everything go this week because I had my granddaughters Mon & Wed, their Granny had the Tue & today! I am Grama!
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Until I can think of something new to ramble about!
Elaine
www.rubyrosecandles.com
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