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Here is an easy craft to make ahead for holiday gifts! Great gift for anyone with a fireplace!
While wax is melting, fill paper cups with sawdust. At this time, if essential oil is being used, add one drop into each cup of sawdust.
Pour melted wax in paper cups, just enough to cover the sawdust. Use a spoon to push down floating sawdust if you wish. You can fill wax to top, but I prefer more sawdust. Allow to cool and harden. Package as you like: ribbons, basket etc.
To use: Place 1-3 in the kindling/logs in fireplace
Hint: The thrifty way to find wax is to use old candles or check your local dollar store for the biggest candle they have! The two jars shown in the pot are half spent candles from the dollar store: already colored and scented like cinnamon! When wax is melted, use a fork to scoop out the wick and base, these can be saved for making homemade candles later;-)
By Starchild in VT
I'm so glad someone post this idea. I was just about to ask anyone if they ever heard of the candled pinecones that are scented that are used for the fireplace in order to get a nice aroma from the burning wood in your fireplace. I would like to know how to do that with the pinecones if anyones knows please? It was years ago at a craft fair when i saw someone selling them. She had them in all sorts of colors and scents.And she displayed them in a basket until one was needed.She said that they burned slow but gave off color change and scent when burned with your firewood.
I have used the pinecones dipped in wax and love them. I also used old candle wax. They start your fire really fast. When it starts dying down and I want the logs to relight, I throw a few more in and they take off again. I recently cleaned my fireplace and did not notice anything like a wax buildup because of them. I was worried a little about it too, but I'm not now because I didn't notice any buildup. Somewhere on the internet, there is a page that shows what to soak the pinecones in to get the different colors, such as a salt solution, and there are others, I don't remember them though. Search for something like colored fires, sodium, etc.
GREAT idea! Thanks for sharing.
Great idea but with the wax, are they difficult to light?
