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Beekeeping => Products Of The Hive => Topic started by: The15thMember on November 27, 2022, 01:03:12 pm

Title: Beeswax Luminaries
Post by: The15thMember on November 27, 2022, 01:03:12 pm

For our Thanksgiving centerpiece this year I made some beeswax luminaries.  I got the idea from one of my favorite books for bee product projects, Beeswax Alchemy by Petra Ahnert.  To make them I filled some balloons with cold water and dipped them like tapers, setting them on my cold granite countertop between dips to create a flat bottom.  Then I untied or popped the balloons, which let the water out and peeled the balloon off the inside of the wax.  It was super easy and really fun.  I put my homemade tealights in them to light them up.
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Title: Re: Beeswax Luminaries
Post by: Bakersdozen on November 28, 2022, 08:14:04 am

Good job!  I have that book and thought that looked really cool.