Candle Making Craft 4u

Have you done your homework and figured out that having candle making as a home business venture is really quite cheap?  Well it is! Isn’t that GREAT!

So many other home businesses are not cheap to set up, but candle making is one that won’t cost a fortune to start wtih.  Even the products you use to make your candles are cheap.  Sure good quality colors and candle making fragrances are expensive to purchase, but you only use so little that the end product cost is relatively inexpensive.

To start with even the molds can be a reasonable price until you expand your range and have a bigger demand for your products where you will need to make a lot to cover the supply needed.

Organizing your finance

You will need finance in the first instance for the following expenses:

• candle making products like wax, wicks, scents, color
• candle making equipment (as listed in our ebook Candle Making – Start with Confidence)
• molds – you may use glass in which case they will sell with the candle or you may purchase molds to keep for making more of the same candles
• trimmings for the candles if you are going to use things like raffia, glitter, embellishments of any sort
• may be display material for a stall or packaging for boxed candles
• promotional material – business cards, flyers, order sheets or whatever you will need for your style of business
• maybe some money spent to set up an area at home for working in
• boxes for carrying your product

Out of the list above probably the most expensive item would be the molds and if you are selling candles in glass molds then you will cost that into your price, or you will be purchasing rubber or metal molds to pour into.

Keep an eye out for pricing your products.

Making your own Christmas candles can be so much fun. 

There are candles to make for yourself for your own decorations and also candles to make for Christmas gifts. 

Making your own Christmas candles is a lot of fun and you can create just the color theme that you want.  Decorating them up with different ideas adds that touch of individuality.

One of the lovely things that you can do with Christmas candles is coat them with glitter glue and this adds a real festive look.  To go with this you can also use dimensional glitter glue and the effect all up is just great.

Read more about it here and learn what you can do.

If you feel that you would like to make your own Christmas Presents then now is the time to look at candle making.  You can purchase Candle Making – Start with Confidence and very quickly learn to make votive candles.  They are so cheap to make but such an excellent present.

A set of votive candles would be a lovely present for someone.

What I like about votive candles from a user point of view is that they are small and you can have different perfumes burning each night and because they are small you can burn one through and then have another.

Also because they are small you can have different colors and set them up differently and the change in arrangement is nice too.

Candle Making – Start with Confidence takes you through the steps to making votive candles so it would be easy for you to learn and still have candles for Christmas presents.

Boxing up and trimming a set of votive candles for your friend or family member would be a lovely thought, especially when they know you have put the effort into making them.

Giving your own homemade candles for gifts is such a lovely idea because the person you give it to realises you had them in mind when you made the candle and that you put some love and effort behind making it. 

From you point of view this is a great idea because you can make something that is unique, you can decorate it to suit the person’s taste and enjoy creating something they will enjoy. 

Decorating your own candles can be done with simple embellishments like raffia and a tag or you can embed petals or metalic symbols into the wax by dipping a candle into more hot wax. 
Another way is to paint the candle with glitter glue and this looks great for Christmas candles.
Or you might try to glue something onto the outside of the candle like autumn leaves or other mementos depending on what you choose.

Candles are also good for giving as you can lay them out nicely in a pretty box with tissue and present them so nicely.

Start planning your next gift giving ideas.