Candles and Other Crafts

I enjoy it when I give a new meaning to things. Given technical information I can analyse them and get scientific results, or given raw food ingredients and spices I can cook them and have delicious food, given paraffin wax I create candles that never had existed before.

I love making candles and how paraffin wax can turn into a meaningful thing, it is somehow similar to 3D printing in my opinion. Every single candle is a new experiment for me and I enjoy the surprise of seeing the result after removing the candle from the mould, however, my work is more than pouring paraffin into mould and removing it as you can see in the photos below.

Candles

I love painting on cubic candles as they have four sides to paint on, similar to having four pieces of wall-hangers installed together in one place. About the white candle, I didn’t do any decoration on it as I love it the way it is, purely white and translucent.

What’s inside these candles are candle pieces, so they are burnable, however, i am not the one who can do this after all the time spent on them.

Making candles in layers is fun and the result is pretty but it needs patience and experience to make colours match and layers clean.

You can use gel wax for capturing your imagination, like my little cook surrounded by floating fruits that I had made in primary school. The little candle snowman literally melted after a while, and that made it even more special and unique.

I think spherical candles are cute, even the bomb ones!

Not all parts of a candle have to be burnable and because of this opinion, I attach whatever I like to my candles. Of course, the little birdie is part of the photography design and not an attachment!

Handicrafts

About the Pictorial Carpet, it was finished in 2005. Weaving a carpet does not involve much creativity but teaches you patience. Computer carpet designs have become much more delicate and common since the time I weaved this carpet. My pencil holder is a simple DIY craft, but I put its photo here because I like the photo I took.