Craft beautiful hand-dipped candles made of beeswax as a special gift that people will cherish. These tips will get you started. If you’re looking to do something fun, practical, and educational for ...

“Beekeeper’s Lab” by Kim Lehman provides 52 fun projects for beekeepers to make for their bees and using products from the hive. This excerpt shows how to make candles out of beeswax. You can purchase ...

In the late 1970s, Erik Laustsen was a recent college grad working an unsatisfying job in upstate New York. Longing to do something creative, he traveled to the village of Karlebo, Denmark, where he ...

KINGSTON, N.Y.— Hill Valley Candles at 55 N. Front St. specializes in hand-dipped candles, many made in store and even offers candle-dipping classes. On a recent afternoon, owner Paul Rakov was ...

Give inexpensive taper candles a modern makeover with any shade of your favorite melted crayons. Don't toss those broken, stubby crayons. Instead, put them to good use in this easy dollar store craft ...

For American-born, London-based visual artist Janie Korn, taper candlemaking began in 2018 just for herself as an intimate invocation—she crafted hand-dipped wax forms shaped around abstract ideas ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The making of hand-carved candles is extremely beautiful to watch. The candles are dipped into liquid wax to build up layers of colour. The melted wax temperature is ...

With Western Easter just past and Greek Easter two weeks away, this is the busiest time of the year for the Paspalas family’s candlemaking business, Athenian Candle Co. It’s also the most cherished ...