How Does Your Husband Smell?

I finally got some help with the housework around here and I'm using the extra time to perfect my candle making skills.  Actually, making the candles themselves has been easy - and I haven't been disappointed with the outcome of any of them.  I had no idea there was such a huge difference between a hand poured candle and the ones you buy at a store.   The hard part has been perfecting the look.  I liked the first label I made but I wasn't in love with it.

Just a few minor tweaks that took about a day-and-a-half to achieve and I had a label I feel is worthy enough for the candles. 

Thank goodness I finally have some help around here with the housework.  Now if only I could teach her to cook...

In order to perfect the labels, I had to bring out the big guns.  Meet my ever faithful HP Color LaserJet 3600n printer.

He's huge, for sure, but definitely worth his weight in gold.  Number one:  the text printing is sharp and clean.  Number two:  there is no worry about ink running or smearing - eliminating the need to spray the labels with a top coat is just about as good as having a cat wash the dinner dishes : )  If you ever have a printing project you want to protect, laser is the way to go.  The same effect can be had with a color laser copier - just make sure it's laser rather than ink.

Another reason I changed up the label was for ease in mass production.  I liked the raffia and lace and different pictures on the original labels, but realized how time consuming it would be to have to add all the foo-foos.

Plus, all those extras would add to the selling price. 

Then something too weird for description happened as I was mixing a candle with a scent labeled "Moon Lake Musk". 

IT SMELLED JUST LIKE GLEN!  

 Well, fresh out of the shower and all spruced up Glen, that is.  Obviously, I think is it a marvelous scent and so do the boys - who usually aren't very impressed with any of my creative experiments.  (Golly, I wish there was a scratch and sniff feature on blogs.)

Yep, the scent got a new name.  (Quit rolling your eyeballs.  I know you'd do the same thing if it happened to you!)

Now, you know this is going to have to be our little secret - this candle smelling like my husband thing.  I don't think it is a very marketable proposition to try to sell a candle that smells like one's husband.  Besides that, I don't want people knocking on my door just so they can smell him, you know, try before you buy?

Yesterday's yield was small, but only because I ordered the wrong wicks.  In candle making size DOES matter!  Instead of filling vegetable cans, I used empty jars that had a larger opening than the vegetable cans I wanted to use.

Nonetheless, I am getting excited about this candle making ordeal.  I've already had a couple of offers from store owners to sell them!  Guess I best get busy, huh?