Enjoy some homemade glow. From wax to wick to wrapping, How to make votive candle is a definitive guide to modern candle making. Learn how to create rolled, poured, molded, and dipped candles; play with your favorite scents and colors; and use specialty techniques to design glowing luminaria, candle holders, and other gorgeous accessories. With illustrated directions, and plenty of practical advice, the author invites even the beginner candlemaker to get in on the action. Fill your house with the warm light and enticing fragrances that only candles can bring.

CRAFT is the first project-based magazine dedicated to the renaissance that is occurring within the world of crafts. Celebrating the DIY spirit, CRAFT's goal is to unite, inspire, inform and entertain a growing community of highly imaginative people who are transforming traditional art and crafts with unconventional, unexpected and even renegade techniques, materials and tools; resourceful spirits who undertake amazing crafting projects in their homes and communities. Volume 01, the premier issue, features 23 projects with a twist! Make a programmable LED shirt, turn dud shoes into great knitted boots, felt an iPod cocoon, embroider a skateboard, and much more.

Jill Winger, creator of the award-winning blog The Prairie Homestead, introduces her debut The Prairie Homestead Cookbook, including 100+ delicious, wholesome recipes made with fresh ingredients to bring the flavors and spirit of homestead cooking to any kitchen table. With a foreword by bestselling author Joel Salatin The Pioneer Woman Cooks meets 100 Days of Real Food, on the Wyoming prairie. While Jill produces much of her own food on her Wyoming ranch, you don’t have to grow all—or even any—of your own food to cook and eat like a homesteader. Jill teaches people how to make delicious traditional American comfort food recipes with whole ingredients and shows that you don’t have to use obscure items to enjoy this lifestyle. And as a busy mother of three, Jill knows how to make recipes easy and delicious for all ages. "Jill takes you on an insightful and delicious journey of becoming a homesteader. This book is packed with so much easy to follow, practical, hands-on information about steps you can take towards integrating homesteading into your life. It is packed full of exciting and mouth-watering recipes and heartwarming stories of her unique adventure into homesteading. These recipes are ones I know I will be using regularly in my kitchen." - Eve Kilcher These 109 recipes include her family’s favorites, with maple-glazed pork chops, butternut Alfredo pasta, and browned butter skillet corn. Jill also shares 17 bonus recipes for homemade sauces, salt rubs, sour cream, and the like—staples that many people are surprised to learn you can make yourself. Beyond these recipes, The Prairie Homestead Cookbook shares the tools and tips Jill has learned from life on the homestead, like how to churn your own butter, feed a family on a budget, and experience all the fulfilling satisfaction of a DIY lifestyle.

The art of making candles has been around since primitive times. Of course, as time went by they become much different in design than what they were back then. Today candle making is a fun hobby or craft. For some, it is a very profitable business venture. Candle making provides you with they ability to create wonderful designs and crafts out of your candles. There is no limit to the shapes, sizes, and colors you can make your candles in. "Candle Making Like A Pro" will teach you everything you need to know about making perfect candles from the comfort of your own home. Imagine you can be making your own candles in just 48 hours from now. Here are just some of the things you will learn from this book: - A brief history of candle making... - Important safety tips you must know BEFORE making any candles... - How to pick the right kind of supplies for wick, wax, fragrance, colorant, molds, and more... - Secrets from expert candle makers that few people ever know about... - 3 little known, yet simple ways to uses wicks... - How to create different kinds of candles like gel, soda fountain, whipped wax, sand, layered, ice, balloon, beeswax candles, and more... - 3 proven steps to prime your wicks... - WARNING: 3 things you should never do when it comes to making candles... - 2 simple keys (that are right in front of your eyes) to make scented candles... - Special and unique candle gift ideas... - Tips and tricks for selling your candles... - How to avoid these common candle making problems... - And much more...

Imagine being able to make your very own candles? Ideal as gifts, for home use and even as a business opportunity. This comprehensively illustrated candle making eBook runs you through each stage of the candle making process in an easy step by step fashion. Homemade Candles Made Simple breaks up each candle making technique into beginner, intermediate and advanced making candle options. A section on Candle-making activities for children is also included. Here are just a handful of the candles that you'll be learning to make: tea-light candles, candle melts/tarts, votive candles, floating candles, container candles, gel candles, hand dipped, pillar candles, sand candles, chunk candles, ice candles, hurricane shells, hand rolled beeswax candles, rustic candles,recycled candles and much much more

The immensely popular blogger behind Little House Living provides a timeless and “heartwarming guide to modern homesteading” (BookPage) that will inspire you to live your life simply and frugally—perfect for fans of The Pioneer Woman and The Hands-On Home. Shortly after getting married, Merissa Alink and her husband found themselves with nothing in their pantry but a package of spaghetti and some breadcrumbs. Their life had seemingly hit rock bottom, and it was only after a touching act of charity that they were able to get back on their feet again. Inspired by this gesture of kindness as well as the beloved Little House on the Prairie books, Merissa was determined to live an entirely made-from-scratch life, and as a result, she rescued her household budget—saving thousands of dollars a year. Now, she reveals the powerful and moving lessons she’s learned after years of homesteading, homemaking, and cooking from scratch. Filled with charm, practical advice, and gorgeous full-color photographs, Merissa shares everything from tips on budgeting to natural, easy-to-make recipes for taco seasoning mix, sunscreen, lemon poppy hand scrub, furniture polish, and much more. Inviting and charming, Little House Living is the epitome of heartland warmth and prairie inspiration.

One of the most earliest types of portable illumination, candles have served imperative capacities for mankind all through history, an true chronicled through the findings of candles or light like items for all intents and purposes in every society.Historian said that the first candle may have been developed by primitive men who dipped dried branches in animal fat, in this manner producing a good source of light.As people start making candles there are series of choices and questions that are made. They incorporate what types of candles to make, which wax to utilize, scents choice and where to make the candles e.t.c.A standout amongst the most normally disregarded parts of candle making is the real "process" of making candles. While these choices are made with the goal of producing predictable and quality candles, the way toward making candles is regularly as critical as some other aspect.Types of CandlesIf you want to make candles, you may be wondering what every types of candle is called. In any case, candles arrive in an extensive difference of shapes and sizes. The below lists assist to demystify the terminology:Container candles: This candles burn in the container that you spill them into. Generally, the holder is your mold.Pillar candles: These candles are thick and sturdy. They can be tall or short and round or square. Many pillar candles are too big and contain various wicks. These are the candles that are generally alluded to by their height and diameter.Taper candles: These types of candles are slim and long. They are typically a standard size at the bottom with the goal that they fit into standard candle holders.Tealights candles: These candles are the same measurement as votives however are only one inch high. They're normally utilized under something, for example, a lampshade or a pot of simmering potpourri.Votives candles: Votive candles are short, are just 1/2 inch in diameter and 2 to 3 inch high. Dissimilar to pillar candles, they are arranged by how long they burn. Most votives candle may take up to 15-hour to burn.Which types would it be a good idea for me to choose?Numerous candle-makers incline toward the traditional look of an apothecary jar with glass top. Others lean toward the natural look of an apothecary jar with rustic metal covers.In this book, we are going to examine the most effective ways to make five different candles.Happy Reading!