Keeping a Candle Making Journal

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For Expert Village.com this is Matt Friedman, owner of the Blue Creek Candle Company. In this clip we will be talking about keeping a workshop journal. To find out more about my candles, please visit my website. All right let’s talk a little bit about the workshop journal that you are going to keep. Mine is kept full of just about every single candle that I have ever made. This allows me to go back and see all the successful candles that I have made as well as some of the failures but what that allows me to do is duplicate those successes and again. I don’t have to remember a month or so down the road how a great candle came out and what it was I put into it. The things that you are going to want to include in your journal obviously are going to be anything that has to do with the candle that you are making. This is going to include the date of when you made it, the project you made it for and the type of candle that you are going to be making. You are also going to want to put in the kind of mold or whatever type of container it is you have using. You are going to want to include your wick size, what type of wick and how much wick you are using. You are going to include what type of wax that you are using and the amount and also put in any footnotes as to how that wax worked, how a wick worked for you. You are going to want to include the type of scent and how much scent was used as well as the type and how much dye was used to create the candle you made. So once again, keeping a workshop journal is very important so that you don’t have to remember how a successful candle was made and you can consistently duplicate that time and time again. So go ahead and get yourself a journal like this or any type of notebook and make sure you put all that stuff into it and you’ll consistently create great candles.

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