Candle Making: In a Weekend

20 easy projects including beeswax candles, floating candles, scented candles, garden candles, garden flares and carved candles.
Features clever ways to decorate plain candles of all sizes and shapes and gives information on refilling candles.
All you need to know about the limited special equipment required, plus wicks, wax, moulds, dyes and scents.

Dining or spending an evening in the warm glow of candle light is now very much part of our every day lives, but handmade candles can be quite expensive to buy. This exciting new book features a wealth of ideas for making beautiful candles at a fraction of retail cost, whether for use indoors or out.

The art of making a candle that will burn the way you want it to and also have the colors and effects that you desire is absorbing.Using limited specialist materials and equipment, candlemaker Sue Spear presents 20 exciting step-by-step projects for making beeswax, scented, carved, floating and decorated candles in an exciting variety of shapes and sizes.

Wax is a wonderful material to work with - you can dye it in beautiful colours, pour it into unusually shaped moulds, perfume i and model with it.

Appealing both to beginners and more experienced candlemakers in search of fresh ideas, this beautifully illustrated book is once a great introduction to the subject and a brilliant source of original design ideas