Ordered myself some candle making moulds and some wick to see if I can experiment with making "proper" candles, not just repurposing cheap tea lights and tinfoil to make longer burning larger tealights which I have done for fun (with leftover prayer candle butts from church to be the centre of the candle and to give it its wick).
Thought that if each tea light ways about 10 grams, and you can get 100 to a pack, thats about a Kg of wax give or take, thats cheaper than commercial wax off ebay if we take into account Asdas candles were £2 a pack of 100 (2p a gram ish) when I got the last lot. If I used new wicking material and repurposed my old slow cooker with its cracked crock (so long as there isn't a hole going right through to the heating element cos if there is it will be ghastly and a major fire risk) to heat the wax, I might be able to make longer lasting long burning candles from cheap tealight wax.
Also as my sisters birthday is coming up, I thought she might like a candle or two as part of her gift so I can kill two birds with one stone, practice a craft and make a gift.
The set that I have ordered contains one mould for a pillar candle, one for a long tapered one, one for a round ball shaped one (but no sealing material so I can't make that one just yet unless I just make a half sphere) and a few fun shapes (hearts, stars and the like).
Went into a bit of a fantasy about making it biiig in the candle making business too! I am a silly dreamer
(JK) 
