Life: Candle Making

Every now and then, the wife and I come up with ideas that we both feel are brilliant. Being plagued with endless allergy attacks in the spring months in Nebraska, we always reach towards endless the search engines to provide us with new and innovative ideas to conquer the season. This year, an idea popped up that recommended the creation of a beeswax candle and it provided a few ideas of what to mix into it to provide an even sweeter aroma.

The recipe called for a bag of beeswax, a pot of boiling water, an empty can of fruit, and a bag of coffee beans/grounds. We poured over the recipe and grabbed all of the ingredients over the weekend. Once in hand, we boiled a pot of water, cleaned out the can of pears that we bought, and loaded the pellets of beeswax into the can (double broil basically). In no time at all, the wax melted down and become a liquid. I grabbed the can out of the pot and poured the newly formed liquid beeswax into the candle holder. The wife then grabbed the bag of the coffee grounds and poured it into it. We then realized that we only filled a quarter of the candle and it looked more awkward than we could have ever imagined.