Saturday, March 21, 2009

A Tour of my Candle Store

I made candles few months back. I was just done with my Post Grad and wanted to spend time home before I joined any where. When I went to the local market to buy some regular stuff with one of my friends, I found a book on candle making and thought I would give it a try. So I went there the next time and picked up the necessary material except for moulds. I couldn't find the regular large moulds in the shapes of cylinders or balls or cones. So I made candles from the stuff I found at home like plastic glasses ( use and throw kind ).





Then I picked up some small glasses and made glass candles.




I went to Indian Consumer Exhibition this year, as every year, where I found candle holders and picked up those and filled them with wax and made candles with them too.



The lady with the basket over her head is a ceramic candle holder which I picked up from the same exhibition and turned it into a candle.





I decorated some of the candles with beads and outliner and turned them into designer candles. I apologise for the blurred image. Couldn't get all them of them clearly.




These are what I call the baby candles. There was one more in the shape of a star which I gifted to my aunt. She advised me with the pictures and the colours. She was of a great help. Thank you Aunt Sara.


There were almost 35 - 40 of all the candles of different shapes and sizes and I didnt know what to do and so I sold most of them to a retailer locally and kept a few with me. I always thought my candles were unique in that I haven't found any similar to mine, although they are of smaller size when compared to the conventional candles we find else where.


Love

R

7 comments:

  1. How lovely!! I'm inspired.. and will surely try this next weekend!! I got the moulds, the material and a book on candles some time last year... but never got around to using it!! The same old excuse.. - 'busy'.. (the most abused word)

    Thanks Sampoorna!!

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  2. Those candles are absolutely lovely...! If I had made them I would not have wanted to part with them. You have a talent. I love the little ceramic lady, holding the candle on her head. It's wonderful!

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  3. Hey Patty,
    Once you start making them, there's no stopping. dPlease do share the pictures of your candles with us. Looking forward to seeing them.

    Sampoorna

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  4. Hey Jo,
    I have few more ceramic ladies with me. Didnt find time to turn all of them into candles. Will do it soon.Thank you for your lovely comments.

    Sampoorna

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  5. Pretty candles those Sampoorna. you are really good with these. I love to use candles in my house decor and always light them for their effervescence before a party. my husband loves to entertain, so we have many get togethers.
    lets see some more candles from you. They are unique....!

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  6. Hey thank you Introspection for your encouraging words. Most of the candles you saw are scented ones. I'm trying to find better stuff for making my next set of candles, also some regular typical moulds, i was talking about in my post, which i couldn't find before. Let's see how the next set turns out.

    Sampoorna

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  7. That lady with the basket-candle is really cute, Sampoorna. Way to go!

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