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. 
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80 responses to “How to make Beeswax Christmas Candles.”
Thank you for posting this. I always wanted to make my own candles. I will definitely give this a try after the holidays. I am so excited 🙂
let me know how it goes, i love candles too and also (just quietly) I look great in candlelight! broad daylight -not so much!! c
Beautiful candle! We’ve only ever made them from beeswax foundation sheets that we roll up around the wick, but yours in that gorgeous tea cup leaves those for dead.. 🙂
I love the rolled ones as well, but am yet to work out how to do that from scratch.. these were probably simpler! c
How perfectly lovely! I imagine it smells divine!
they smell like summer!! (big breath) c
It looks so easy to do!
crazy isn’t it, and we had it burning for a few hours last night. I will light it again shortly to see how it goes again.. c
Omg How cute !
Hi kristine and welcome, they are cute.. c
Is there any more cozy and comforting scent than that of a beautifully burning beeswax candle? Doubly welcome when it’s cradled in a sweet pretty teacup. Heavenly.
Works for me!! c
Wonderful idea, cecilia, thanks for sharing. I can almost smell the honey.
Next, well after the lip balm i want to try to make beeswax furniture polish, then we will be onto something!! c
These would make awesome gifts! Ooh and I could shop the antique stores for neat old cups and saucers! Another to-do item, thank you 🙂
if you see them , grab them, little cups and saucers can do some much!! much more than tea! c
The candle looks so pretty in your lovely china teacup.
Thank you .. it is so sweet isn;t it.. c
Love the idea of the candle in the teacup…and what a little beauty that teacup is. So charming and so clever.
Thank you breadcrumbs! c
Oh Wow! 😀
they do have a certain wow, how sweet factor.. ( my mother in law immediately blew hers OUT as she did not want to ‘waste’ it.. sigh) c
I have some beeswax left over from another project so all I need are some teacups 🙂 PS, I add essential oils to mine, like Frankincense and Cinnamon for that holiday scent
What a good idea adding scent. I love jasmine and rose, I have a few more to make, I might rummage abut and find that box of oils, I know it is somewhere !
The teacup is gorgeous. I do love DIY projects. Great post!
It is fun to potter about making beautiful stuff in your own kitchen.. c
Great idea, beautiful and as always, your photography is outstanding!
Thank you.. c
Gorgeous! What a wonderful idea.
just the think for a new kitchen! c