Candles,  

To be completely honest with you I thought the same thing, that it would be to expensive to do, I made my initial purchase of soy flakes and scents from e-bay and it was so cheap!
I know go all over looking for new scents and colors to combine them with.

i used to make my own and i would mix black cherry, pachuli and vanilla together and it was a wonderful smell.

Ohhh thanks for the tip;), I love looking for new scents, did you ever try to mix chocolate with strawberries or chocolate with root beer? That is my husband's favorites that I have done.:)

oooh that mixture sounds really good. chocolate and rootbeer wow. yum. hehe
um.. i got big (real) rose petals and dipped them into the *above mentioned* concoxian that i made and gave everyone i know wax covered petals. they're so pretty and smell good.
now i want to get back into candle making. its such a fun hobbie.

Yea it is, helps me pass my time at night too when the kids are sleeping.
I love your idea with the rose petal. Now that it is close to Christmas time I am going to start dipping big pine cones into the scented wax, putting them into baskets trimmed with fresh pine and bows, with a camdle in the middle.
The possibilities are endless :)

Soy actually helps the farmers of America,the wax I use is actually flakes make from soy beans, I made my first inital purchase of the items from e-bay. Then I went to www.candlescience.com. They sell bigger bulk of the flakes, and I was so impressed with the ease of doing this, I actually went to google for directions not knowing what I was going to get into and it couldn't be any easier than boiling water.:)
My kids love the Monkey Farts lol..it's all different fruity smells.
Same thing with the scents you can get little bottles that are good for one candle or larger ones if you plan to make more than one scent of that type. I found that one out the hard way.

Wonderful! Thank you so much for the information. That's why I love MYLOT. I meet great people like you who are willing to share and I learn something new. Thanks again.

Anytime, if you seriously get in to making candles its a great way to make gifts and money as well. You can add sea shells in to nature scents, sands, stuff like that.
I would love to add you as a friend if that would be alright also.

Course you can give your friend my yahoo name, I love doing the candle thing and yes spangies there is angel kisses lol.. and yup you can use the soy for massage oils, all sorts of skin care products.
I ummm seem to run low on the oil after its melted, could that be part of the reason for the 6 kids Mark an I have ;)

I could not believe how easy it was, I started only because of my love of candles and where I was living in a little small town in the middle of no where there wasn't any where to purchase quality candles, I went to ebay of all places and saw what I was looking for and wanted to cry at the price, it was $42.00 for a triple wick candle.
My husband knows I love to take on new endeavors said, " Why don't you get the stuff and make them yourself I know you can" and so the journey started and let me tell you it is very very addictive.

Do you make your own scents or buy them in bulk?
What type of scent is joy,flowery?

joy smells kinda like dryer sheets

awesome, almost like downy,clean linen then? I love all kinds of scents. Which reminds me it's time to do a re stock ;) lol

Yes, I love the soy, I tried bee's wax and didn't like it at all, more or less, you do the same thing with the soy flakes that you did with the pre made ones. Of course you can use the waffle presented with soy.
I purchase all my oils on line, from many different places, they are essential oils yes, but there are ones that are specific for candles,and body products. It is a great hobby that I can say. It does wonders for stress:)
I try to make a few different scents each night. You should really look into it.

thanks! yeah i loved making candles but i found it distracted me form doing other things ;) i remember a particular incident with me showing my boyfriend some cool waxy formations i had left-over, and ended up melting wax onto my jeans, which never fully washed out LOL the bf was not amused, thought i was being childish "playing with wax" etc LOL. but i might try to start up again with the soy flakes ;)

It coulda been worse, you could have dripped the hot wax on him but we won't go there.
It definately is relaxing to do thats for sure:)

grr, of course it WOULD post this twice ;) the system refused to post the first time, but after submitting the message a second time successfully, i see it managed to post both ;) we should have a 'delete' comment feature at mylot :)

LOL I found the same thing to happen to me, I figured out a way around it though, underneath your brower back button is a down arrow if you click that and go down twice it takes you to the original message and you can see if it posted or not :) No worries

haha cool, thanks, i'll do that from now on ;)