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Glowing luminosity in every corner of your yard or deck brings a magickal feeling to the outdoors. Then add the scent of citronella and you get to keep your magickal evening from becoming a stage for mosquito bite victims. These little jar candles are so inexpensive and simple to make you might find yourself making several. Flaked soy wax makes this an incredibly easy candle project and at $1.25 per pound it is also affordable. Soy is a clean, natural, even burning wax and is perfect for container candles. There are dozens of ways to decorate the jars or just leave them as they are. This is where your creative magick comes in! We have included some ideas using glass paint that can take the heat of the flame and lets you heat the jars to refill them over and over again. We also have the greatest resource for the things you need to make these candles plus other candle making supplies at discount prices.
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2. Use a candle melting pot on the stove and pour the melted wax into your jar. I don't have one so I didn't do it this way.
I don't finish my jars with melted wax all the way to the top because I like to have light shine through at the top. Usually if you fill the jar to the top with flaked wax it will melt down to about halfway. After that you can decide if you want to add more flakes.
The little Perm Enamel kits come with a varnish you can paint on after you are done. I recommend this if you are using the jars outside. It also says you can't put your painted glass in the dishwasher for 10 days. But after that they will be all ready for recycling into a new candle again. When the wick has burned down just put your jar into boiling water, pick out the old wick and clip when it melts, add wax and scent, then a wick. Presto...you have an entomologically prohibitive combustion unit!...er...citronella candle
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Adding Wax& Scent:
3. Put the jar of flaked wax into a small pan of boiling water. This is the way I chose because I can watch it better, add wax if I need to and can pick old wicks and clips out of candles I'm recycling while it is melting. One disadvantage to this method is sometimes a little water will condense on top of the wax which can cause the top to not be completely smooth. I don't really care about this since I plan to burn them right away anyway.
Adding Wick:
I tried using the Perm Enamel paint two different ways. Painting it on with a brush is good, but if you dont' want streaks in the paint you need to apply several coats. For some things I like the streaks and for some I didn't. I really liked using a sponge. You can use any small sea sponge or even cut a corner off of a cleaning sponge. Don't wet the sponge. Just dip it in the paint and dab it on. For this jar I covered the whole jar in yellow. After the yellow dried I added red starting at the bottom and dabbing more loosely as I went up to about halfway. I let the red dry then did the same thing with black as I did with the red only went about 1/8 up the jar. I added a few dots here and there and...poof!.."flaming" candle jar!
The number of ways to paint these jars is endless. Here is the "flaming" sponged jar and another one I painted to look like stained glass. I simply painted all different colors and shapes then a black line between the shapes to finish. An easy way to decorate them is to paint or sponge the jar one color then with a small brush add black moons and stars all over.
They look completely different in the dark. That's the magical thing about these... you don't really know what they are going to look like until you turn out the lights. The difference is...well like night and day.
