Scrap Happy Beeswax
Scrap Wax
Old candle stubs…
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Old Cups, New Tabs
…and old aluminium cups, wicks from a charity shop – new tabs…
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Crimp
…young human helped crimp the tabs around the wax-dipped wicks!
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candle ends
We warmed the wax in a glass measuring cup sitting in a saucepan of water on low temperature on the stove…
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Pour
…then we poured the wax into the cups…
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Stack of Tea Lights
…and let them cool slowly…
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trim
…we trimmed the wicks a little…
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Blue
…and made a second batch of candles dyed blue – it was a beautiful project for a dark November!
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ScrapHappy is a group of bloggers (links below) who post monthly about using up scraps! All genuine scraps are allowed, and any material. Blog posts are published on the 15th of the month, and I love to see what people are doing with bits and pieces saved from the scrap heaps! If you think you’d like to join the group, contact Kate or Gun who devised and run it – their blogs are the first two links below:
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Quimper Hittys 
Those are going to smell wonderful! You remind me of a project that I’ve had sitting on my workroom windowsill forever. I have the last centimetre or so of scented wax in the bottom of 8 glass containers from commercial candles. It’s a wonderful scent named ‘Oudh’, rich and warm and exotic. I also have some neutral soy wax, wicks and tabs, and the eventual plan is to melt out the scented wax dregs, mix with the soy wax and see if I can’t make a new glass container candle or two.
That sounds like a great scrappy project even in summer, I bet they will smell really nice, even if not as strongly once diluted. This definitely feels like the time for candles in the northern hemisphere.
I think it’s going to be quite an undertaking, so I might hold off until after Christmas. And scented candles are still lovely in the summer, thank goodness!
nice. I love making candles
So do we…there is something nice about the slow process – hurry it up and things don’t work…plus the house smells delicious!
What a wonderful project you and young human and of course a Hitty or two have made from scraps this month. I think it’s so cool that ragged scraps can turn into things with neat and trim edges. Enjoy!
We love the scrappy candle-making, and it doesn’t really bother us that some of the candles are a little eccentric in shape – they burn just as beautifully as perfectly circular tea lights do!
I nebver thought to recycle the cups from tealights! What a great idea!
We had to break down and buy the tabs because we couldn’t make our other ideas work, and we bought the wicking at a charity shop…but everything else is made of stuff that would otherwise have been thrown out! We are pleased with them!
brilliant! Wonderful recycling. The young human is learning to recycle in the best, most positive way. May the light of the season shine all the way up the hill.
I am happy that the young human enjoys such activities with me! More light is definitely a bonus at this grey and dismal time of year on the Canadian Northwest coast!
what a warming project on a dreary day….love the photos.
Thank you! We have had a few dreary days lately, but this is November after all! Candles (making and lighting them) definitely improve the day!
Impressive recycling/use of scrap wax!
Candles are so nice in our damp and dreary winters, it is nice to know we have a good supply! Thanks!