Candle Sale

Of course I went to B&BW today, who do you think I am? Teehee.

I could've made a phone order for some of the newer candles such as other bloggers did today, but I passed. July is home to my birthday and I've taken a week off later in the month to do something nice for myself - while candles are nice and for myself, I wanna go somewhere so I passed on that option and opted for some in store purchases instead.

At $9 per candle, that was much better than a 2/$22! 

The SAs in today knew I was in there for. I mean, of course there's a sweet deal on candles, but I'm pretty much the candle connoisseur to them. Well, let's look at it this way, I am all set in the event of a power outage - my collection is probably pushing 70. I know there's folks out there with way more but that many candles is nothing to sneeze at. Unless of course, the scent rubs you the wrong way. Bad pun.

Unfortunately, because I got there after work (7pm) they were picked over really hard. No more AT ES candles were there so I subbed a Eucalyptus Mint for it, the Destinations line had a few London Calling, a couple of Rio Glow, a couple Sea to Santorini, no Aloha Waikiki and no Meet Me In Tahiti from what I saw, at least until I left the store and saw them on a stand by the door. Buh. My luck. They had plenty of Summertime S'mores and while I wanted to shove them all into my bag, I didn't. And my partner in crime was proud of me for "showing restraint" at B&BW as he had put it since I frequently give in when I see something nice. 

The lotions and PocketBac were used to get my two totals over $30 for that nice little coupon.

Nothing special. Looking forward to trying out Paris Daydream though. I plopped it into my shopping bag every so often before the line came back but I always took it out in favour of something else.

Keeping myself awake now because I work late tomorrow. Hmm. I guess I could start boxing up the excess lotion to keep in a cool and dry place and do some organising in the guest room. Sounds like a plan!

4oz candle study continued

I'm full of posts today, aren't I? While I prepared my little 4th of July feast for the partner in crime and myself, I decided to light some of the Lakeside collection candles up, which included my almost gone 3 wick Summertime S'mores (#2 of 8) and my two little 4 oz babies. After only an hour an a half burning, the results are in:

Look at those gorgeous wax pools! Sigh. These candles have one hell of a slow start but with a litle TLC, I managed to burn through them and enjoy a little peek at what I have to look forward to when I fire up these in 3 wick form!

I put them out because I'm honestly paranoid about the glass breaking if I leave it burning with no more solid wax underneath the pool. The throw would be better in a smaller area, but these smelled great when I was cooking! Watermelon Lemonade is a potent little powerhouse! And no complaints. As generic a smell as it is to me, I LOVE the smell of watermelon so much. And don't count out that Strawberry Picnic, on cold throw, my eyes widened, I knew I had to have it. It's like strawberries smothered in buttercream frosting. Guuuuh.

Oh, and I should add that after the maintenance I performed on these babies near the start did the trick - I didn't have to do anything else for them any other time I lit them. Great! 

Overall, I will focus on 3 Wicks, more value for my money, better burn, longer life, better throw, but for those candles that weren't carried in bigger than 4 oz. locally (Summertime Soda!), sure, why not?

Small Candle, a study briefly continued.

This evening I decided to light the Strawberry Picnic 4 oz. I featured as part of a first timer with this size in candle. I chose this one because it gave me more trouble and I burned it less. It gave a nice, even wax pool tonight, no maintenance necessary but the throw wasn't that good this time! Shame. Perhaps a smaller room is in order for the scent. 

Two hours in. I realised after taking the photo AND putting it out that I should've gotten a normal side shot of it but oh well. It's burning nicely in this photo and didn't take the initial four hours that the start up did. Nice! I'll pick it back up tomorrow I think.

In not small candle news, my 3 wick White Barn Summer candle is disappointing me and has since first burn. It'll give me an even wax pool but the flames are tiny and the wax is turning slightly funky. I have to keep draining out some of the wax to keep it going. I have another one but I'm thinking of exchanging the both of them honestly. The throw isn't that great either. Oh well. First world wax addict problems, I tell ya.

4 oz. candles, an early study

Recently I posted about buying a few of the 4 oz. size candles which have been on sale for $5. I've heard they burn badly and I got to experience it first hand in the last few days. My first victims ahem, candidates, were Strawberry Picnic and Watermelon Lemonade. I chose Strawberry Picnic because I wanted to see how it smells when burned, and Watermelon Lemonade to compliment the wallflower in my bedroom. 

The results have been interesting. As of roughly 10 hours put into WL and 6 into SP here were my findings.

Side by side.

SP has a thicker wick which is shorter and perhaps this is the biggest downfall to burning this one. Once the wax pool forms (or tries to) the wick very nearly drowned. The candle showed signs of tunneling. When the wax pool wouldn't extend any further, I snuffed it out and used a papertowel to sop up some of the wax to give me a longer wick almost. The results have been promising. I was able to achieve a full wax pool with no tunneling after this. The jar is kind of messy because I almost knocked it off the counter after putting it out. Oops.

WL has a thinner, taller wick and formed a near complete wax pool but also tried to tunnel. Once again, I used the paper towel technique and avoided utter catastrophe. What maintenance these little guys are. They take so long to form a wax pool too. WL took roughly 4 hours burn time today to finally reach the edges. No wonder they burn forever it seems! On the bright side, the throw for WL isn't bad for such a little guy and the SP was also nice, though not as strong which is perhaps good considering the smell could be sickening if too strong given how sweet it is.

I'll see if these guys will burn completely down and reuse the jars as I finish them. I'll perhaps light another one up before these finish to compare further. So far I am concluding that I won't be purchasing anymore of these guys. 

No tunneling! Heavy maintenance required....