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A completely unnecessary candle experiment
Jason goes to thrift shops, finds cool things, random things and weird things, turns them into candles, and sees what happens.
Newest experiment
Nobody votes for the skeleton, so Jason finally gives him a turn. Warm Croissant fragrance and a little brown and yellow dye become bread brains. A dead spider in the wax interrupts the plan. The spider gets removed. The skeleton gets his candle.
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From the archives
Some worked. Some absolutely did not. All of them seemed like a reasonable idea at the time.
The cauldron mug won the vote, but it arrived already filled with an unscented candle. After two hours of warming, chipping and pouring out the old wax, it got a fresh batch of purple, Salted Honey Butter-scented wax. Chef Ru picked the color.
This black cat got pink, strawberry cheesecake-scented wax and a pile of wax hearts that looks suspiciously like brains. Two “wicksters” stick out of the top.
Little Frank gets a brain replacement made of pistachio meringue wax. Black, purple and red layers. Several changes of plan. A completely unnecessary amount of thought went into this tiny head.
Grandma's candy jar became a three-layer holiday candle: Snickerdoodle Cookies, Pumpkin Pie and Cranberry Sauce.
A “Sisters by chance, friends by choice” mug became a Banana Pudding candle with tiny yellow wax bananas buried throughout and piled on top at Chef Ru's insistence.
Six candles' worth of wax, three wicks, six layers, tiny wax pineapples and one increasingly complicated relationship with the garage refrigerator.
A 1997 Enrique Iglesias tour mug, pink wax and Pink Lemonade fragrance. Collector's item before. Candle after.
An aggressively questionable owl mug, S'mores fragrance and orange wax. Somehow, the owl became a perfectly respectable candle.
Six wicks, purple wax and Vanilla Buttercream Crunch fragrance. We are still not entirely sure what the vessel was supposed to be.
A giant Kirkland peaches jar became a one-of-a-kind Peach candle using roughly two and a half normal candle recipes.
A thrift-store soup dish with a funky handle became a green Rosemary Sage candle. Strange vessel. Surprisingly respectable candle.
Four wicks. Red wax. Cherry fragrance. Roughly four normal candles' worth of wax in one delightfully unnecessary pie plate.
Green chalice. Fruity cereal fragrance. High hopes. The chalice had other plans.
A Hopscotch drink can got the full candle treatment. Because an empty can is apparently a challenge.
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