Rolled Beeswax Candles for Candlemas

Supplies for Candle making

On the evening of Arwen's birthday Rogan and I made some rolled beeswax candles for Arwen's birthday. We will be making more for the Feast of Candlemas on Wednesday but I really just wanted to give a quick tutorial on how we make them.

As I am having a hard time buying wicks as the place I used to get them no longer sells them I made my own from twine. The picture above is when we made some last year for Candlemas after running out of the bought ones.

 For these candles we didn't pre dip the twine because I didn't want to get out the bees wax to melt the twine that late at night. On Wednesday I will use cotton string as it works better.

*You lay the string/wick on the very end of the bees wax sheet.
*In the first picture you can see we have cut the wax sheet in half and then into thirds for the size candles we wanted.
*Press down firmly to embed the wick in the wax.

*Simply start to roll the candle up very carefully

*Trying to keep it even all the while until you reach the end of your piece of wax strip.

Wholla.... finished Candles !!

Seriously it is so easy and so much fun. Best of all your fingers smell like bees wax as well as the room you prepare them in.

These are the candles we made for the birthday ring all ready to be lit.

List of Supplies:
* Bees wax sheets in your desired size, mine are the smaller ones.
* wicking or cotton string
* scissors
* optional - enthusiastic children or self

Have a fun time with this!

Blessings to you and your homes,