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.”
What a cool idea. And something my bigger kids could make with a little help, and bring home to their mums and dads as Christmas gifts. It’s on my list for next year. Thanks, C!
if you pour the hot wax they can do all the rest, which is basically watching it cool. it is so easy! maybe they can choose the cups!! c
Such an awesome idea!
thank you susie! c
Reminds me of how my grandmother makes their own back in the Philippines
does she make them from beeswax too?.. c
You are so full of surprises… from Daisy the cow to these cute little cuppa candles.. I would love to make these and will be on the hunt for beeswax at our Farmer’s Market.. They would be so lovely on the table, but I might just gift these:)
they would make great little gifts! I am sure you will do a beautiful job.. c
I haven’t made candles since I was in elementary school and visited a California mission. This is such a great idea. Beautiful pics too.
Thanks jed, I have never been to a mission.. sounds interesting.. c
Depends on which one you visit. Over all not that interesting. 😉
oh well.. c
I have about 20 assorted demi-tasses and saucers, most of them very pretty, but none are used in these days of mugs. If only I knew where to get some beeswax, and wicks, I would love to make some as gifts. What do you use for wicks?
I bought the wicks at a local artsy store, though I heard you can dip cotton string in wax a few times to make your own wick.. c
That tea cup is gorgeous–and even more so with the candle in it! All these posts make me want to make my own candles! I make some once by dipping the wick in layers of wax–the final result looked like a lumpy turnip, but I was proud of it nonetheless 🙂
I want to try that next too, I would not mind the lumpy turnip look!! c
Wow! Amazing.
Thanks to u and your daughter as well for telling you to share this.
Great work.
How absolutely lovely! 🙂
they were beautiful on the christmas table too!! c