Just imagine your beautiful sparkling Christmas table is dressed. With all your lovely china and polished cutlery, little vases of flowers and the most perfect table cloth that you do not want to spill candle wax on. So, beside the sparkling wine glass and the beaded water glass, is a beautiful delicate tiny, little, tea cup and saucer and in the tea cup is a candle. A beeswax candle.
My Beautiful Daughter Sops asked me to share this with you.
To make a beeswax candle. Fill a pyrex jug with blocks of beeswax. We rendered the wax the other day here. Today we will use some of last years wax and some of this years wax! Amazing difference in colour. The first year the bees had a field of soya beans and the flower garden. The second year (darker wax) I had planted more lavenders and sowed a lot more clover. I wonder what it was that gave us this deep golden wax. 
The wax is melted in the microwave for about 8 minutes. While it is melting prepare your cup. Choose a small tea cup. I use a hairclip and two bamboo skewers to hold the wick upright. 
Carefully pour in the melted beeswax. The hot beeswax fills the room with the smell of honey. 
Now wait for it to cool. Do not hurry the cooling process, if it cools too fast it might crack. Then you will be quite annoyed!
Carefully cut your wick to the right length. 
There now. A candle in a tiny tea cup. Ready for your Christmas table or your Birthday Tray or your desk, where mine is sitting now, scenting the room with its fragrance.
Lights out. Shhh. 
c
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80 responses to “How to make Beeswax Christmas Candles.”
That is a beautiful cup!
It is pretty isn’t it Rosemary! c
How wonderful to be able to make your own beeswax candles, very magical. And iike Rosemary, i adore the cup…and no more spills! Every day I am feeling more Christmassy and this is a very beautiful post to get me in the mood.
It is a bit christmassy isn’t it.. have a great day tanya! c
Hi C, Wonderful idea. Would look beautiful for any occasion. Love the cup.
Regards Florence x
I thought you might like this Florence! c
So beautiful! I wonder where I could get some beeswax around here. I keep telling the kids to mind their own, so it may be tough to find.
Those kids!! I bet they have to mind your beeswax as well as their own!! Having such a famous mama.. c
What a wonderful idea! Did you use your own cups, or a flea-market find? And, after this, are they forever candle cups, or can they go back to being for tea?
I know, I’m just *full* of questions today…
One of next spring’s projects involves bees – I hope. Our local bee-man will bring hives out (to stay, not in that travelling-circus style like the big growers use) and tend them, and we’ll get honey and wax as ‘rent’…I just have to make him a place for them that he can drive his truck up to AND that I won’t have to mow around…not as easy as it sounds, with our swampy ground.
i find the cups everywhere and with careful washing they can be returned to the cup of tea tray, however, these will be kept for candles i think to save myself the trouble! and FANTASTIC! getting bees is so exciting..with free honey to boot.. c
Oh that is freaking cool! Now in light of my not having any bees handy where would I get the wax to try this (and the wicks)? I have some teeny tea cups that would just be perfect for this. t
you need blocks of wax, (next time you see that honey man ask him) but i am sure you can buy them on the internet and the wicks I got at a hobby shop. they are just so sweet. Thanks Miss T.. c
AWESOME C! Just too beautiful for words and so clever using the tea cup and saucer. Emailed the link to my hubby who makes candles in coconut shells. He usually rolls the top of the wick around a toothpick – I have zillions of those hair clips he can use instead.
🙂 Mandy
Coconut shells, that sounds great! Next year i shall get some real candle molds, if darling husband has any advice about buying molds I would be grateful. Speaking of hubby, how is your fig tree?.. c
Hmm, hubby made all of his moulds if you will from the coconuts that grew in our garden when we lived in Mauritius – have a look-see here http://wp.me/pT5Tj-hb – we brought back a case full of empty coconuts so he can carry on here at home.
The fig tree is looking a little more lopsided than normal but okay – figs still very small – think all of this rain and cold weather this time of the year is confusing the poor tree. The conifer trees lining the driveway on the other hand are still looking very sad after hubby’s hacking session… xo
You had coconuts growing in your garden!! How romantic! Does he just leave extra wick in the cone shaped end. And then pick it upright after turning them out onto their flat bottoms? Does that question make sense? Well your fig tree will grow back from it fright, how exciting to be getting baby figs so soon.. c
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How inventive to use a tea cup! I
Thank You Claire. It was my daughters idea!! (I have to say that .. or she will git me.. ha ha ah )
What a great idea, Celi! For a number of years, I bought Mom a tea cup if one caught my eye when I was in a glass, 2nd hand, or antique shop. When she passed, I gave them to her 2 favorite grand-nieces. I wish I’d kept one now. Well, it’s not too late to get another, is it?
Never too late John! Your Mum must have loved those surprise gifts. And had quite a collection I bet. It is the best time to buy for someone, when something catches your eye! c
Beautiful idea!
Thank you Tig! c
I agree with all the above, plus very good pictures 😉
Thanks Mad, it was very easy to do! c
Celi, you always amaze me! What a lovely idea! It combines my love of teacups and candles! Unfortunately I don’t have beeswax of my own, but think I can get some locally! And, I have a store of teacups just perfect for use! Hm, I may even have to scour the thrift shops – these would make lovely gifts! And best of all – I think I can handle this one!
It is easy to do Phyllis and I agree they would make fantastic colourful gifts. in fact my Mother in Law just called and wants one right now!! c
Love your idea: just wondering:
After the melted beeswax makes a small depression in the candle, what would you think of placing a small votive candle into the depression, and lighting it, to increase the candle burning time.
Ronnie
You could do that Ronnie, that is not a bad idea at all!! c
There are no naked tables in my house!
. no, absolutely no naked tables in your house! c