I spent the entire day making candles in preparation for Christmas. I got two new molds from Etsy this year, both Christmas trees. One is a medium-sized spiral tree, and the other is a mini tree with a tea light base. I made 3 of both of the new molds. I also made 4 tapers, 3 gnomes, a dozen tea lights, and one big pillar. The pillar took me two tries actually. I had some wax leak out of the bottom of the mold, and when I when to pick it up to remove the candle, the mold stuck to the counter, and I just pulled with wick right out!
The good thing about making candles is you can always just melt them back down and repour. The wick was a waste of course, but at least it can be used as a Wikki Stick!
(Anyone else remember those?)
My wax this year was really yellow. You can see the difference between this year's gnome and one left over from last year. Even accounting for the aging of the wax and the wax bloom, the gnome from last year was from a batch of wax that was very tan for some reason.