Boho Vintage Candle Set Progress

Since my last post I have gone to the thrift store and looked for glasses to make my candles in. It seemed like my manifesting worked from my last post because I found a lot of glassware that I liked! I also found some old candles there that I bought to melt down and use in my candles, and some colored pebbles in one of the grab bags at goodwill, so I picked that up too to use to glue on my glass. I got these since I wasn’t sure my one old candle was enough to fill all of these glasses.

These are the glasses I found and got at Goodwill. I am super happy with what I found! Since some of them are colored already, I decided to not stain the rest because I want a nice variety of colors for this candle set. The squared glass is the one I plan on glueing pebbles to make the texture fun and radiate colors when it is lit.

One of the old candle wax packs that I found was scented and the other was not, so I ended up melting the two together and making them one. This was to tone down the scented one a little bit because it was a little much for me. To melt the wax I started with boiling water in a small pan on the stove, once this water was boiling I added my wax into a separate pot and put that over the boiling water. Then I just waited for all of my wax to melt. While I was waiting for the wax to melt, added my wicks in and put clips on them to balance on the glass to hold them straight while the wax cools. I then poured the melted wax into my glasses on aluminum foil to help regulate the temperature of the glass. The wicks were a little fragile so I took the clips off as soon as I could so they wouldn’t break apart.

I ended up not fully filling one of the three glasses that I did in this round, so when I finish doing the other two I will add more on top of the first fill to make it more full if I have enough wax. I also still need to glue on the pebbles that I got to my square glass. For the green chalice glass, I read somewhere that candle glasses should be a pretty thick glass, so I am scared to pour the hot wax in there but I really love the color green and the unique shape of this glass so I really want to use it. But the one I did on this first round with the sort of ribbed outside is thinner than the green one so I think I will be okay. I also read that putting flowers into candles too close to the wick could be dangerous, so since my glasses are pretty small I don’t know if I will end up adding flowers. If I do, I probably just won’t light that candle too often.

The image on the left is my square glass filled with the pebbles I got from Goodwill that I will glue on the outside. The image on the right is my old candle I plan on using for the next two candles and maybe if I have enough to fill the not so full candle.

So far, I am super happy with how my candles are turning out and I am excited to keep working on this project!