Candle Making in a Weekend : Inspirational Ideas and Practical Projects [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Sue Spear (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1999

Make your own candles at a fraction of the cost of store-bought ones! With the help of Candle Making in a Weekend you will learn quick, easy, inexpensive and fun ways to make your own candles and decorate plain ones. 20 projects, covering a range of candle-making and decorating techniques, include how to dye wax wonderful colors, pour it into unusually shaped molds, perfume it, model with it and embed it with decorative objects. The basic techniques are very simple--the possible variations, endless. Includes lists of all the materials and equipment needed; plus colorful gallery pages showing a variety of handmade candles for adding charm to holidays, weddings, romantic dinners, bubble baths and other special times.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Beginners can easily jump right in and turn out very good-looking candles with the clearly presented instructions in this guide. Nice color photos illustrate both finished products and every step along the way as we learn how to create marbled, layered, aromatic, embedded, appliqued, chip, and several other variations of candles. Most project designs are fairly standard but are nevertheless attractive; a few are more innovative, such as the stacked candle or the lantern candle with embedded dried fruits. Additional ideas (though no instructions) are provided in the six "candle galleries"--double-page spreads showcasing themed tableaux of container, embedded, Christmas, decorated, multiwicked, and floating candles. An introductory section covers all the basics of materials and general techniques. --Amy Handy

About the Author

Sue Spear has been making candles since 1968, when a friend came to dinner and brought a handmade candle rather than a bottle of wine as a gift. She lives in the United Kingdom.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: North Light Books; illustrated edition edition (August 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1581800096
• ISBN-13: 978-1581800098
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #900,720 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

58 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent basic introduction to candlemaking, April 7, 2000

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This review is from: Candle Making in a Weekend : Inspirational Ideas and Practical Projects (Paperback)

After looking through stacks of books featuring floating candles, sand candles, and red white and blue beeswax cutout candles, I settled on this book for its introduction to a variety of techniques. This book answered questions I had on how to keep the wick still in votives, pouring temperature for different types of candles, how to make drip candles, and how to inlay objects. The author offers useful tricks for completing each project successfully accompanied with step by step photographs. The main thing I love about this book is that I can adapt its techniques to make my own creative projects.

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Candle Making in a Weekend, April 6, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Candle Making in a Weekend : Inspirational Ideas and Practical Projects (Paperback)

Colorful and practical. This book has great ideas for decorative candles. Each idea has step by step instructions (as well as pictures so you can double check your work) for basic techniques that stand alone or can be combined with others to make more elaborate candles.

This is a book of projects. If you're looking for a history of the techniques/materials used to create these candles you won't get it. But if you want quick ideas without alot of informational interference, this is it.