Instead of cleaning or doing laundry or heck grocery shopping I hung out around the house and slummed. I mean I could be a professional bum with my lack of activity today. Long bath, check. Junk food, check. Online search for a recipe for homemade scented lamp oils, check. Fruitless online searches for cheap votives, check, check. I decided that instead of trying to make homemade lamp oils with alcohol and tossing this and that in it getting the mixture just right and all that was too much to take on. Heck, how do I know I’m not accidentally making some sort of friggin bomb? I’m trying to do aromatherapy but instead I’m mixing chemicals I know nothing about creating toxic fumes that spread through my home. No, I think I’ll leave that one alone. I can just see it now, my goodness the house was on fire 5 years ago. I don’t want it to be my fault this time.
Barney Fife: What happened Austin?
Austin: Well, I just couldn’t find it in me to spend that $2.50 on a cartridge for my lamp at the store so I tried to make my own scented oils.
Barney Fife: Realllyyyy?
So yeah, I’ll just go to the drug store down the street tomorrow and pick up some lamp oil. Forget trying to make that crap from scratch.
I’m pretty good at making votives but I thought if could by them cheaper than I can make them then I’d try to do that. I take wax from ugly candles and soften them up then mold them, let them harden for a full day then take them out of the mold. It seems to work just find but I’m running out of ugly candles. I use to get them at goodwill when they sold stuff like an emerald green Buddha candle or ya know like some sort of orange fish with purple eyes….that’s what I mean by ugly candles….the stuff that you look at and go, “who ever made that should be jailed.” I get them then make my own votives. It works. I can’t re-use the wax cause once I’ve melted it down or softened it the wax won’t burn well. The wax gets spent the same as oil does so I got one shot with ugly candles. It is fun though. Making my own oil, that’s a different kind of fun. That’s a, “I hope we have fire insurance” kinda fun.
Okay, well, I have to drug myself so I can sleep. I figure since I know the meds I have will knock me out I should take them and get some sleep before therapy tomorrow. I’m sure he’ll want to know how I spent my 3 day week end. For the most part I spent it hanging out with myselves. I can’t say I had a boring time of it. Oh yeah, and the Gilchrist and Soames bubble bath that Blossom gave me for my birthday? Nasty! Once in the water it smells like pee. I hate gag gifts. Not funny at all. Stupid heifer, that was not necessary. My goodness that stuff stinks.
Joan of Arc
hello dear! yes im still trying to make my comeback. seems my schedule is just not going to return to its original shape. sigh …
ive made candles (um, a candle) from scratch, with parafin wax and crayons. that was fun. i made a black and silver one.
i hope your ebay auction goes well. we have had an ebay site for a long time now. we sell all kinds of things. started out with lee’s old comic books. we even sold a mercedes hardtop once. not the car, just the top. yes some people make a bundle on shipping. we dont. just cover our time and supplies. and negative feedback isnt always as bad as it seems. people read both sides, and can easily see who is really at fault. some people are just arses, and leave crappy feedback. dont let that one woman bother you.
kïrstin♪
We used to make drip candles at camp. Take two coffee cans or something similar. Put melted wax in one, water in the other. Place them rather far apart, like at opposite ends of a picnic table. Take your wicking and dip it in the wax, then walk to the water and dip it in there, then around again to the wax, and so on and so on. It takes a while, and don’t be tempted to let the wicking sit in the wax because it will melt off instead of accumulating. While it’s still soft you can form the bottom so that the finished candle will stand up.