Candle Making Craft 4u

Ice candles are so easy to make, although they do look difficult and can really be quite stunning.  In the early days of making candles, ice candles are one of the easiest types of candles to make successfully as long as you take care with making sure that the wick is surrounded by wax to ensure a good burn.

HINT: The easiest way to do this is either dip a wick in some wax several times so that it is covered with sufficient wax, or use a tapered candles for the wick.

Tips for making the candle:

• use clean washed and dried paper milk cartons
• measure sufficient wax for about half the carton
• melt your wax in a double boiler or set a pyrex jug of wax in a slow cooker on low Read the rest of this entry »

Any small home business that sells to the public or has the public visit their premises needs to have public liability insurance.  That includes candle making businesses.

Public liability insurance is to cover accidents and also covers faulty products.  For example reasons that a candle would want coverage for:

• a candle maker may make a candle and for some reason a customer has a fire at home and proves that the candle was faulty and that is why there was a fire started
• at a stall where you were selling candles, a customer caught there foot on a trestle leg, tripped and broke a leg Read the rest of this entry »

It seems that you have either decided to start a candle making business from home or you are considering doing so.  I just love working from home and have done so for over 12 years now.  I admit I have done several small businesses in finding something that I really love doing and you may find the same thing.

I have always been a believer that you should work at something you enjoy so that when you get up in the morning you just love going to work and most of the time you are a happy person becuase you love your job.  This reflects on your relationships, business and personal, and on your family.  My stress levels sky rocket when I am not happy with my work.  For example, I have held a real estate licence and owned my own office, but I just did not enjoy that at all.  I love deal with real estate but not selling real estate. I love the challenges of it, property investing, renovating and Read the rest of this entry »

When selling any item one very important factor is to make sure that it is displayed well.  It does not matter whether the item is a candle or an item of clothing, no matter how lovely the item is, if it is not display well then the chances of selling it are much less limited.

How to display your candles for selling

Candles are one item that does sell on its own in a lot of cases, especially the bigger ones, so they can be displayed in groupings of style and/or color.  Keep the taller ones further away from the customer and bring down the sizing but in such a way that even the taller ones get a good viewing.  This may mean that you need to prop the back candles up even higher so that they can be seen and admired properly.

Once you have grouped your candles together, use some items like towels, soaps or flowers.   Create a theme with your display.  It may be a seaside theme, a dining theme, a spa bath theme or whatever, but set it up in such a way that you tell your customer that this is the way you could use these candles.

If you do not have a lot of room you just might set up a themed area and have the candles grouped together nearby rather than a large display.

Selling packaged candles

You may decide to sell your candles in sets and to do this they would need to be packaged in groups of say 3’s or 6’s depending on what it is you are selling and on the final retail price.  Do keep Read the rest of this entry »

When setting yourself up to have a candle making business extend yourself so that you come up with original ideas.  Candle making is so much fun and there are so many ways that you can make original pieces on which to build your candle making business reputation.

Search around, see what other people are doing, explore different ways of making innovative candles and have fun.  Here is a link to see some really cool candle ideas.

One point to remember is to perfect one candle style first before you try another.  You may Read the rest of this entry »

For those who would like to earn money in a homebased business and are a little crafty look at this gift basket idea with a difference. You have the choice of also being hands on and making product or you can simply purchase it and sell it on.   This particular one is selling edible products.

Candle Business for making gift baskets

I am not sure about whether you could base a whole business on candle baskets but most definitley it could be part of the business where you are selling things like edible products.  Of course if you were going to mix the two in the same basket then care would need to be taken with scented candles being included.  Special wrapping of the candles would need to be taken care of.

A gift basket business uses many of the creative craft skills of a person and can be a lot of fun.

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