If you have purchased (or even looked at the prices of) jar candles anytime in the past decade, you’ll know that they cost a fortune (no, I am not talking about the ones that you get at the Dollar Store).
If you’ve purchased Yankee Candle brand jar candles, you’ll know that they cost an arm and a leg.
So when I had a Yankee Candle jar candle with an entirely defective glass jar (no seriously, look at the picture), there was no way that I was just going to throw it out, and there was also no way that I was going to light it so that it could spew its molten love wax all over the place…
Initially, I thought… Mmmm, this is the perfect job for the Handy Man’s ultimate – DUCT TAPE! But the crowds of uncouth heathens shouted me down, and I was forced to come up with a better, more destructive alternative. Damn. Luckily, I had a spare jar from a spent candle. So I went to work on my fallback, and I might add… devious plan…. transplant one candle into the jar of another…
Step one involved a hammer (and quite frankly was the most fun and satisfying step).
Once I had beaten up all the defective glass, and peeled it away (with only minor wounds suffered by yours truly), I was left with a amusingly naked candle.
Which was unfortunately, too girthy to fit into the glass jar of the expended one that I had intended to use as its replacement vessel. Bugger.
So then, out came the serrated knife and Step Two (which happens to be the second most fun and satisfying step of the whole process) – trimming the excess body fat.
Once the candle was taught and trim, I was FINALLY able to get it into the spent jar. And viola a brand new candle is born.
It’s alive… its ALIVE!
i love the home made label. *ROFL* Did you melt it at all? I mean, as a way to remove it from the old jar or fit it into the new jar? I’ve done that before.
Thank you – I am pretty enamored with styling of the home made label as well
I carved up the candle so that it would fit through the neck of the jar – talk about a “bottle neck” and then stuffed the candle carvings in around it. I figured (correctly) that the melting wax from the candle would melt the flakes and form it back into one big candle.
I’d be interested to see it now that it’s been melted again.
Zombie candle!
And the excess trimmings? You need one of those wax melter thingies to plop them into!
Ahhh! Frankencandle! Actually, I once built a computer out of old parts for my mom. She referred to it as Frankenputer. I rather liked that name.
Hehe, that reminds me of that Frankendog animation that Tim Burton did – I can’t remember the name of it now. Frankenputers are pretty much what I have had for the entirety of my life – I can’t remember the last time I bought a new one. Frankenputer’s tend to have the best personality, but also the worst quirks.
My zombie candle wants brains. I am afraid to light it anymore. I was standing in front of it the other night, and I could almost see it inching toward me with hunger.
There wasn’t a whole lot of excess trimmings, I managed to stuff most of them back into new jar around the outside – I didn’t think of a wax melter thingy for the left over though, darn it.
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