making candles as a hobby

pouring candles

watching them start to set up

nearly cured here

four lovely candles. Two for  me, two were gifted.

I get my supplies from Candle Shack, as they are not too far away to collect from and save postage. 

Wax is EU464. Fragrance oils are Warm Woods and Cashmere and Enchanted Forest.
 

wax melts

the fragrance oil to make candles comes in 50g bottles... I use 44g to make two candles which leaves just a little bit in the bottle.... what to do with it? so I decided on wax melts. also used a little bit of colour in the wax for the first time.

and here they are, the next morning, popped out of the moulds. I will be gifting them as I don't use wax melts. and for future candle making I will just straight away use the little bit up making wax melts. otherwise all these little bottles sit about taking up space. 

GW 494 wax and  fragrance oils are from Candle Shack . I used Cucumber and Melon, Warm Woods and Cashmere, Enchanted Forest. 

the colours are left over from the first candle kit I used, and the moulds were gifted to me. 

 
 

to ripen tomatoes

my little kitchen drawers are just the right size to fit a seed tray, where the tomatoes can ripen. 

after a dismal, cold and wet summer, they are just sitting in the greenhouse and not ripening at all, I've been brining in a hanfull every coupleof days to ripen and eat. now i'm just about to collect in another seed tray full and that will be all of them. 

there have been some nice broad beans to munch on , they are nearly finished now. little turnips early on, and there are nice leeks waiting to get bigger before eating.

not much success with anything else this year.
 

Laundry scent booster recipe. Stop using chemicals to scent your clothes...

 

posting to save.. think its a great idea and would like to try it sometime

greenhouse update

 

the tomatoes are just starting to show a slight blush, maybe there will be one to eat at the weekend. 

Beans has been here for a year now, the greenhouse is not her favourite place, 

not comfortable enough she says. 

she is a nce wee cat, not much into cuddles but will keep you company. 

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spring into mud...

 Monday Mornings... 

well, you have to laugh... there isn't any point trying to brush it off either as some of it is still wet... 

weather is rain off and on, occasional ray of sundhine, more rain. 

a friend said mud is good for the complexion, my reply was that her bum must have the best complexion ever then... lol

Met Office Weather , I have Wednesday off work so I hope its drier. 

Today:

Somewhat cloudy with a few light showers Tuesday morning, perhaps persisting until early afternoon. Generally becoming clearer with sunny spells through the day as winds become lighter. Maximum temperature 12 °C.

Tonight:

Dry through the evening but cloud gradually building from the south. Lower cloud with a few outbreaks of rain arriving around midnight, continuing until dawn. Minimum temperature 5 °C.

Wednesday:

A cloudy morning with outbreaks of light rain. This gradually clearing east to allow some sunny spells in the afternoon. Drier and clearer all day for Argyll and the Isles. Maximum temperature 10 °C.

time to start seeds

Beans exhausted after supervising my splitting clumps of snowdrops to share some with a friend. they were dug up this morning, bulbs washed and put into damp paper. then transplanted into their new garden in the afternoon. hopefully they will put on a good show next spring

very mild temperatures and a mostly dry day, later in the week its to get back to freezing, and its to be wet most day, hopefully not too windy. 

time to start seeds , a tray of Onion Tosca

and a tray of Leek Blue Solaise

in the greenhouse with plastic propagator lids over the top. these veggies can cope with the cold

I've had seeds from MoreVeg before, they always do well, they are in smaller packets which are perfect for the home garden grower, and very economical to buy. 

the light was fading and those last photos have a funny tint to them. the streetlamps weren't on yet but it was starting to get dark. the days are noticably longer which pleased me very much. I use a SAD lamp in the mornings to try and combat the winter blues. 
 

whats the weather , greenhouse temperatures

greenhouse on Friday morning, the door was frozen closed most of the week so this high and low covers a few days, dry weather and bitterly cold. bear in mind the greenhouse reads warmer than the outside. 

 this is from this morning , its warmed up. bringing with it heavy rain and high winds, disruption warning to roads etc... 

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A blizzard on the bonnie banks as we head west to explore beautiful Loch...