Little heart-shaped votive candles

I made these last night - I think they are pretty - best burnt inside a small glass to catch the wax. I made them with eco-soy pillar wax.

More creations coming soon!

St Abbs Market - 29 March 2013

I will be at the regular St Abbs Friday market - the next date is at Easter on Friday 29 March. I will have a good range of handmade soy wax candles for sale. Some in glass and other interesting containers as well as pretty vintage cups. Hope to see you there. We are also there on Sat 30 March as an Easter special!.
Venue - The Ebba Centre in St Abbs. More about the St Abbs Market and our location.
Time - 10-4. (Plus they is a great cafe too.)

Make a candle for you?

If you have a treasured cup or other container and you would like me to re-fill it - making it into a candle (and it's a great gift idea!)  - then do contact me to discuss.

You can contact me by email at johanna @ naturalbeautyscotland dot com !!

Great feedback from recent customers.

I wanted to say thank you for the wonderful candles - they were fantastic and went down very well with the family at Christmas time.  I kept one of the lavender ones for myself and have been burning it in the living room - it smells delicious! Thank you also for the fantastic tea light samples.  They have been a great success and have a very good burn time (6-8 hours).
Kate, Edinburgh

I bought a really lovely lemongrass candle from you last Saturday at St Abbs!. I had a girlie get together last night and had your candle burning and everyone LOVED it. I was  so impressed that your candles burn right down until nothing left!!
Pam, Berwickshire.

I really enjoyed visiting you at St Abbs this afternooon.

I would very much like to buy some more cup and saucer candles, if you still have any left for presents. I thought that they were lovely.

Kind regards, Marilyn

More soy candles ready for my customers

I have had a busy week making up two large orders of soy candles for customers - two pictured above.The cup and saucer is Susie Cooper bone china and the scent is green tea which is lovely. I plan to source more interesting ceramics in the New Year to make up interesting soy eco-candles.

Woolflowers and Eco Soy Candles

I am now having a lot of fun making candles from eco-soy wax. This is a renewable wax made from soy beans. These candles are clean burning and don't give off the noxious fumes that candles made from paraffin wax do (ugh). They burn for 8 - 10 hours at least. Most are scented (lavender, green tea, citrus and basil, ho wood and other fragrances tbd!) I am selling them at various craft fairs this winter.

I am also making pretty woolflower brooches that can brighten up a jacket, scarf of hat. Some are made with organic wool from the Isle of Mull, others with a scarce wool from the Bernat Klein studio. I am also decorating some of them with Swarovski Crystals!

I am excited to be taking a table at the Local Producers Market at the new Ebba Centre in St Abbs on Fridays through most of this November and December 2012. This super event features a wide range of stalls and is open from 10am-4pm. I will be selling my own handmade artisan soap and eco-soy candles plus I will have a wide range of lovely hand knitted garmets such as scarfs and children clothes as well as cushions. (knitted by me, my Mum and my friend Helen!) -  I am not selling online just now but plan to be early next year.

Ogston & Tennant - a 19th century Aberdeen-based soap maker.

I spotted this Herb box on my recent trip to Orkney. Colonel James Ogston was a 19th century soap manufacturer from Aberdeen - known as "Soapy Ogston". His factory made soap and candles and was in the Gallowgate area of Aberdeen.  It was founded in 1802 and sometime after 1892, the soap and candle works of Charles Tennant was merged with Ogstons to form Ogston and Tennant Ltd. The combined company later became part of the Lever Group.