Friday, October 12, 2007

Beeswax



It was a beautiful day, although somewhat chilly at 50 degrees. I relaxed by crafting. A favorite project of mine is to make ornaments out of beeswax. The process is as important as the product --- the fragrance, texture, and color of natural beeswax is quite soothing to work with. I purchased the beeswax from a local bee farmer. It's a byproduct of honey production and he makes wax cakes out of it that he sells for a very reasonable price (about $6.00 per block).

5 comments:

  1. Do you have examples of the beeswax ornaments? We would love to see some!

    Have a blessed day,

    kari and kijsa

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  2. OOOOPS! I just scrolled to the next post with the clay molds...thought to myself....those would work well with beeswax, but didn't look any farther. I found it and I love them....they are beautiful....do you keep them from year-to-year or do they melt. Sorry for all the questions....I just love projects like this from natural materials and I had not seen these before!

    smiles, kari and kijsa (really just kari this time....I won't blame kijsa for the silly question)

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  3. you can also purchase old fashioned german design wax molds for making ornaments, they are easy to use and the ones I have are religious in nature, angels and nativity scene type pieces. I like the idea of using the cookie molds

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  4. Oh, my, you are so talented.

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  5. Hi, I know a bee farmer not far from him. I plan to find out if he sells the blocks of wax. I appreciate your superior ideas. Cindi

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