Crafts: Epiphany Tart & Candle

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Happy birthday, Sherlock Holmes!

For the past four years, I've made an epiphany tart for Sherlock Holmes's birthday (6 Jan). This year, in the interest of economy, the tart was one flavor: strawberry.






And for Christmas, I got Minor a beeswax candle making kit, thinking it was something we could do together. Yesterday, we made a candle. It wasn't actually as interesting as I'd hoped when I ordered the kit, but, still, it smelled interesting and I made Minor read the booklet about the importance of bees.

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Glad to see you're continuing with the Epiphany tart tradition.

And well done on the candle - it looks pretty even if it wasn't a very exciting make.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I debated for a whole week whether I was going to buy extra jams for it but, in the end, opted not to.

Thank you! You roll a sheet of wax around a wick. That's it. And the kit says 'for display only' which is a bit ridiculous. I lit it and it burns very, very quickly, so not an extremely useful candle either.

[orchid314]

I love your Epiphany tarts. And that's a great gift for your son. I usually think of beeswax as being a bit more tawny-colored. This candle looks darker. Is there a particular reason for that? Or maybe it's just the angle of the light.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!

Ah, the kit comes with 4 sheets of beeswax. One is the natural color (the tawny you mention) and 3 are dyed (I suppose to appeal to children). There is a black sheet and a green and a blue one. Minor cut the yellow spots from one sheet and stuck them to the rolled black one. To make it look a bit more beeish.

[orchid314]

I love your son's idea to mix up the yellow and black to evoke a bee. Very clever.

[ancientreader]

The tart is beautiful and makes me want to dive into it face-first: a perfect instance of why one can't have one's tart and eat it too, I suppose.

As for the candle, hooray for instructive pamphlets and the fragrance of beeswax, and who the hell ever heard of a candle that was for display only? We all know what happens to candles that are "displayed": they become coated with dust that you can't remove ever, because, hello, WAX.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Ha, ha! It's tasty with whipped cream.

Yeah, the kit seemed like a good idea from the description in the catalogue but it wasn't much of anything. I imagine the candle might last an hour, tops. We'll see.

[debriswoman]

The candle looks very good:-)
The tart looks delicious
Two successful projects

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

In one Sunday! I was busy yesterday!

[scfrankles]

Another splendid Epiphany tart ^___^ It looks lovely.

And the candle looks rather lovely too ^__^ Maybe to continue the celebrations for Holmes' birthday, you could use the rest of the beeswax to make him a bust :P

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thanks!

Ha, ha! I could continue in the grand tradition of Monsieur Oscar Meunier of Grenoble!