I'm just the right age to remember MacGyver. To say I was influenced by the show might have been pushing it too far though, until this last weekend. (His hair wasn't nearly so bouffant at the time, I'm sure, and I remembered him as being a little bit sexy. Yeesh!)
Anyway, on Thursday I found myself asked to make dark green and white floating candles, from scratch, with only an hour of shopping time to get hold of materials and no time to order supplies online. Yes, I could have gone out and bought some, but where's the fun in that?
So... I bodged them.
I had some container/votive one-pour wax from Full Moons Cauldron (cheesy name, great supplier) and some dyes, and went to a pound shop for the rest.
I used paper cake cases, stacked five thick to keep their shape, and put them on a tray to catch the wax if it all went horribly wrong. Then I dismantled some cheap tea-lights (the ones where the wax looks like a polo and the wick is loose) and dropped the wicks out of them. I nuked the one-pour wax, mixed in the colour, and poured into the cake cases with all appropriate digits crossed... (harder than it sounds!). Once the wax started to cool and look a bit oily, I plopped one wick into each cup, aiming for the middle.
I left everything for 24 hours so that the wax could cool properly and the candle could "rest" and then voila! They burned for 2 hours and looked very pretty, which is more than I can say for my poor water candle! (Back to the drawing board for that one...)
