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Welcome Candle Maker!

February 1, 2012
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I’d like to welcome you to our Candle Making website. This site contains recipes, instructions, advice and information about candle making aimed both at experienced candle makers and newcomers to this creative craft. We also feature news about promotions and new products on our shop site MakingYourOwnCandles.co.uk which supplies professional-quality kits and materials that can’t [...]

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Are we doing a good job?

July 7, 2011
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We need your help! If you’ve bought from us since we launched our shop in January 2010 then I hope you had a good experience – we get regular emails from customers delighted with their products and excited about what they’re making with them. Every now and then, we also get emails from customers with [...]

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Our first candle making craft fair

June 20, 2011

It started off so well. Peta and I had booked a pitch at the Summer Craft Fair at Port Solent on the south coast as our first attempt at selling direct to the public. We chose that one because it’s fairly local to us and we’d been as punters several times. It always seemed well [...]

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Help us choose a logo!

February 4, 2011

We’re having a new logo designed and we’d like you to help us choose which of the final few you like best. Please click on any of the designs below and you’ll be asked to give each one a star rating. This is entirely anonymous and we’d really appreciate your help selecting a winner. Custom [...]

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Welcome to 2011!

January 16, 2011
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The dust has finally settled from an incredibly busy Christmas season. Thank you so much if you were one of the tens of thousands of people who visited MakingYourOwnCandles.co.uk and even bigger thanks if you liked what you saw enough to buy something from us. We’ve got lots of ideas for 2011, it looks like [...]

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The Christmas Candle Making Season is on!

November 16, 2010
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Our production line is in full swing putting together kits for the Christmas ordering season. Margaret, Kirsty, Dene, Lucy, Heather and Dizzy the dog (—->)  have been beavering away putting components together so that when Peta assembles each kit, she has everything to hand. Every one of our kits, you see, is assembled by us [...]

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The Pillar Candle Kit is finally here!

October 26, 2010
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It’s taken the best part of 6 weeks to find the perfect combination of wick, wax and mould for producing consistently fantastic pillar candles. We’ve now got a house-full of failed experiments but all this work was worthwhile because the end results are excellent. The pillar candles produced by this kit are made of Eco-Soya [...]

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100% would recommend us to family and friends

October 18, 2010
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We’ve just finished running a survey of our customers and Peta and I are analysing the results. Thank you so much to everyone who completed the survey and we’ll be announcing the winner of the Deluxe Edition candle making kit for the best new product idea shortly. In the meantime, I just wanted to share [...]

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Soy Candle Wax arrives!

October 5, 2010
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When we set up MakingYourOwnCandles, we chose a special blended paraffin wax for our moulded candles that includes all the required additives to enable you to make candles easily and consistently. Our paraffin wax is a product of the petrochemical industry and is entirely free of harmful substances, it’s also biodegradable and doesn’t add to [...]

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Making Witches’ Hat Candles for Halloween

September 22, 2010
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This month we have contributed to the new MakeScents Magazine for the first time. Our project, found on page 68 gives step by step instructions on how to create some great candles for Halloween in the shape of Witches’ Hats. You may have some spare paraffin wax at home to have a go at making [...]

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