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Recently, Candy bouquets have become a popular gift together in addition to gift baskets. Many times, I saw an individual's eyes sparkle when they received a candy bouquet. I can understand why.

Candy Arrangements are floral like edible creations that are not only beautiful but also delicious. People want to surprise their loved ones with unique gifts (not just box of sweets or flowers) and a candy bouquet is the answer. It makes a recipient feel really special. Almost all kids and adults love candy and always welcome candy bouquet gifts. Believe me, your candy bouquet gift will be a hit!

Candy Bouquet arrangements are the perfect gift for any occasion. For example, your sweetheart will be blown away if you give her or him Chocolate Roses instead of the usual bouquet of flowers for St. Valentine's Day. A candy bouquet can be of any shape, size, color, or theme.

Candy Bouquets can be an amazing centerpiece for any party. People will not stop talking about it! If you want to be a hero of a party, create a candy bouquet centerpiece.

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Note: This craft project is only for your personal use. It is copyrighted.

Materials used: a flowerpot, Dubble Bubble Gum, blue cellophane, polka dot cellophane, floral foam, blue plastic grass or blue shredded paper, stem wire (16 or 18 ga), yellow curling ribbon, scotch tape, glue dots, and tools (scissors, serrated knife, and wire cutters).

Step 1. Take a flowerpot. It can be any flowerpot you like. I chose a yellow and blue ceramic flowerpot (5.5" in diameter), because it goes well with the yellow and blue wrappers of the bubble gum pieces.

Step 2. Cut the floral foam to the proper size so it will fit tightly in the flowerpot. Cut a piece of blue cellophane, and then put the piece of floral foam in the middle of this cellophane piece. Gather the cellophane up around the foam and insert it in the pot. The foam should be about 1" lower than the edge of the pot.

Step 3. Cover the foam with blue plastic decorative grass or shredded blue paper.

Step 4. Make several bubble gum flowers.

a) Take stem wire (16 or 18 ga) or bamboo skeweres, Dubble Bubble gum pieces, floral tape, scissors, and wire cutters.

b) Join 3 bubble gum pieces to each stem using green floral tape. First join a piece of candy to the end of the wire/bamboo skewer. One or two inches down the wire or skewer attach the second piece of candy. Go down another one or two inches and attach the third piece of candy on the opposite end of the second one.

If you use a bamboo skewer, wrap the rest of the skewer with floral tape so it is completely green. With green stem wire it is not necessary.

I made 10 bubble gum flowers. Three of them are taller than the others; they will be placed at the back of the bouquet.

Step 5. Wrap the bubble gum flowers in cellophane.

a) Cut a square piece of polka dot cellophane. In my case I used 7" x 7" pieces.

b) Carefully poke the bubble gum stem through the center of a cellophane piece, or fold the cellophane square in half and fold it in half again across the first fold and cut the tip off the corner. You will end up with a small hole in the center of your unfolded cellophane piece.

c) Pull the cellophane into a cone shape it should be just beneath the bubble gum pieces and tie it with a piece of yellow curling ribbon. Fluff the cellophane out.

Decorate all of the bubble gum flowers this way.

Step 6. Insert the bubble gum flowers into the pot. The tallest flowers go in the back. Arrange the flowers in a way you find attractive.

Step 7. You may want to add additional pieces of blue cellophane into the arrangement (in the back, in the middle, etc.) to create a fuller bouquet using floral picks.

Take cellophane and cut rectangular pieces. Take one of the rectangles and loosely fold it in half the short way and then in half the long way. Take a green floral pick, put about 1/2" of the closed corner of the cello piece against the blunt end of the pick, and wrap the wire tightly around it. Fluff the cellophane out. Now the cello or tissue paper piece is ready to be inserted into the floral foam.
Your bubble gum bouquet is ready!

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Candle Making at Home today is much different than the necessity it once was many years ago. It used to be that making candles was nothing more than a basic requirement of every day life. One needed a candle in order to light their reading desk in a dark room, or if traveling after the sun had set, again, another candle was required to light the path home. Since then times have obviously changed.

Nowadays, long after Edison's advent of the incandescent, electric light bulb, candles continue to be made at home, but no longer is it merely out of necessity. Instead, they are artfully being crafted out of passion! Today people are making candles at home, not because they have to, but because candle making is an activity that they truly love doing. In fact, many people are finding that they love doing it so much that they are turning their new-found craft of candle making at home into full blown hobbies, and in many cases, even profitable home businesses!

When first getting into candle making at home it becomes obvious that, though the basic concepts appear fairly simple, there are still a lot of aspects to this fun and fulfilling craft that need to be learned. You are probably wondering, just how difficult can it be to melt some wax, pour it into a mold, and stick a wick in it?

In a sense, it really is almost that easy, almost. Successfully making candles at home, not unlike most hobbies or crafts, first requires a few fundamentals that need to be learned before jumping in head first. By investing a tiny amount of effort into learning these simple, yet crucial, ins and outs of this very rewarding hobby you will not only end up with more beautiful and exquisite candles, candles that burn brighter, last longer, and smell better, for longer, but you will also save yourself a whole lot of time and head-ache in the long run, and not to mention a lot of money too that would have otherwise been wasted on unnecessary equipment and failed experiments caused by lack of knowledge.

The best place to start when first getting into candle making at home is learning the basics. There are not too many of them, and they are simple, but you do need to know them before getting started. You will want to read up on all of the latest candle ingredients that the modern day candle maker has available to them. These include the different molds, types of molds, waxes, wicks fragrances and dyes. Next is finding out what the differences between all these various materials are and why one application requires this type while that other type would be better suited for that application. It may sound complicated but I assure you that it is not. The best place to start, to get good organized information that you can come back to time and time again is to invest in a good book on successful candle making.

With so much online information available on making candles at home it can be a bit overwhelming to quickly and easily find the right answers. This is why so many successful candle makers invest in an offline or downloadable book on the subject. It is a small investment for clean and organized information that quickly pays for itself.

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Some Basics of Candle Making at Home

Deciding on what type of wax is best suited for your candle making project requires understanding the differences between all the available candle waxes that are available to the modern candle maker. The most common type of candle wax is paraffin wax. It is readily available at most craft stores, versatile, fairly inexpensive, and it typically works well with most types of dyes and scents. Then there are gel waxes, soy waxes, and even beeswax. With so many different types of candle waxes available, how do you know which one is going to be best for your project? Obviously it depends on the project itself. Each type of available candle wax has its pros and cons. For example, gel wax is best suited for projects requiring transparency or translucency, but it requires a much higher heat to melt and therefore requires some additional safety measures be taken when working with it. Where as soy wax melts at a much lower temperature and can even be melted in the microwave which is convenient. It is also better for the environment because it is derived from earth-friendly resources but despite all of the pros to soy, there are some downsides to it too that are rarely ever mentioned. Then there is beeswax, which doesn't have to be melted at all!

How to make Candles At Home

Learning the craft of candle making at home is not only a fulfilling hobby but it is also a very useful past time activity. When starting out it is common to make candles for yourself and your home but as your passion for the art intensifies (and yes, it will) you will soon find yourself making candles to give away as gifts. It will start with friends and immediate family but as you become better and more proficient at your new craft you will soon find yourself handing out your exquisite creations to grandma, Aunt Jean, and even co-workers, just because you feel like it. I mean really, who doesn't like candles?

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