Making candles isn’t my thing, but decorating them can be a fun and crafty experience. That’s what I decided after I saw a few fancy-schmancy, designer candles in a department store. They were carved and elegant, shimmery and sparkly; but they were too expensive for something that would melt away in an hour or two. […]
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Without visiting a huge party supply store your choices are rather limited when it comes to purchasing ordinary stick candles for a birthday cake. The tiny pillar candles are sold in boxes of several but are usually only available in a few colors. Those kinds of candles had their day but have become somewhat boring […]
Recently, I decided I wanted to create a line of products to go along with my radio show. I decided I would make candles, potpourri tarts and other items that make your world smell wonderful and sensual. As I began searching the internet for supplier, I found that Nature’s Garden Candles stood out above the […]
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Mar
Mar
The modern light bulb is of course a wonderful convenience. Nights would seem infinitely long without it. The common electric light bulb enables us to work, play games, read, cook, do homework, and hundreds of other activities, when without it (and if for some reason gas lights or lamps hadn’t been invented) we would have […]
As a teacher in Thailand I learned many useful things that I needed to know if I was going to teach my students. One of these I learned to smell wax. In Thailand, candles are everywhere and almost all Thai adults have, at one time or another, made candles as handmaids. Many of the scents […]
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Jan
Jan
While thinking of Pringle’s potato chips, the images that come to mind are uniformly shaped chips in unique tubular containers. It seems a shame to throw away perfectly good Pringle’s potato chip canisters, so don’t throw them away. Pringle’s potato chip containers have a number of fantastic uses. The following creative uses are great ways […]