Coffee Cup Soy Candles Dec 2020
I love these old "Fire King" coffee cups for candles. I believe they are "Milk Glass" and they have this fantastic glow especially with the colored wax.
In pre-Covid days I'd prowl the Thrift stores for old cups and glassware. My GF had an idea one year to make candles out of tea cups. I actually don't like the tea cups as much as I like crystalware, milkglass and low stemware. We started using soy wax. I like the eco-friendliness of it, but in truth I started using it because I found I could liquefy it in the microwave. Anyway after several years I've made hundreds of candles. A wonderful bonus of these is that after they burn down completely one can use hot water and remove the remaining wax (give it back to me too) and use the cup...or send it back to me to be refilled. Glass and ceramics are particularly high-energy materials, meaning it takes a lot of energy to prepare them. That energy comes from fossil fuels...which means that per pound of item made, the amount of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) released during manufacture is very high. Cement is one of the most CO2 polluting materials, glass ranks up there with cement! And that leaves out the damage done to get raw material for the item,
The best glasses so far are "Boopie" glasses. Their parabolic shape allows the wax to burn almost to the last drop. It makes me wonder why candles weren't made in that shape forever.
Anyway I've found a nice, US sourceof wax and wicks and when I can get out and look for people's old junk (not really but that's the mentality) and make some new candles for Christmas 2021. I actually made these ones in 2019 but didn't get to use them. Its a set of 4, and when lit up they are spectacular in glow and color.. I'll probably refill them...or maybe have coffee in them. Either way they are not in the landfill.
Coffee Cup Soy Candles Dec 2020
I love these old "Fire King" coffee cups for candles. I believe they are "Milk Glass" and they have this fantastic glow especially with the colored wax.
In pre-Covid days I'd prowl the Thrift stores for old cups and glassware. My GF had an idea one year to make candles out of tea cups. I actually don't like the tea cups as much as I like crystalware, milkglass and low stemware. We started using soy wax. I like the eco-friendliness of it, but in truth I started using it because I found I could liquefy it in the microwave. Anyway after several years I've made hundreds of candles. A wonderful bonus of these is that after they burn down completely one can use hot water and remove the remaining wax (give it back to me too) and use the cup...or send it back to me to be refilled. Glass and ceramics are particularly high-energy materials, meaning it takes a lot of energy to prepare them. That energy comes from fossil fuels...which means that per pound of item made, the amount of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) released during manufacture is very high. Cement is one of the most CO2 polluting materials, glass ranks up there with cement! And that leaves out the damage done to get raw material for the item,
The best glasses so far are "Boopie" glasses. Their parabolic shape allows the wax to burn almost to the last drop. It makes me wonder why candles weren't made in that shape forever.
Anyway I've found a nice, US sourceof wax and wicks and when I can get out and look for people's old junk (not really but that's the mentality) and make some new candles for Christmas 2021. I actually made these ones in 2019 but didn't get to use them. Its a set of 4, and when lit up they are spectacular in glow and color.. I'll probably refill them...or maybe have coffee in them. Either way they are not in the landfill.