10-step candle making guide

1. Get started. You will need few materials like – wax, candle colors, bowls, candle thermometer, stove, large coffee can, paraffin wax, pot big enough to accommodate coffee can even when half filled with water, fragrant oil or concentrated scents, wick (remember 1’’ wick means 1’’ candle) and wooden spoon.
2. Cut the wax chunk into small pieces, so that the melting process turns fast.
3. It’s time to melt the wax. Don’t put it directly on stove, it will catch fire. Place the wax in coffee can. Fill half of a pot with water and then place the can in it. Now put the pot on stove. Keep stirring the wax with spoon until it reaches 160 degrees Fahrenheit and melts completely. Use the thermometer to check the correct temperature. Make sure wax doesn’t get too hot.
4. Now add color to the wax. Put colors slowly until you get the desired shade. Take a spoonful wax and cool it off to verify the color of cold wax as the wax color turns little lighter when it cools down.
5. Now add the fragrant oil or scent. Don’t put too much oil as it will be difficult to burn the candle. Keep stirring at the temperature of 160 degrees Fahrenheit until all ingredients are blended nicely.
6. Take a wick which should be double of the desired candle’s length in addition to 3 inches for holding. You can make two candles at a time. Now fold it in the center by making it doubled over your finger and dip in the melted wax. Dip it for few seconds, then let it cool off for few minutes. Repeat the process. Make sure the wet candles don’t touch each other. When few layers of wax are formed, after every dip in wax cool it off by dipping in cold water.
7. Once the candles reach the desired thickness and volume, roll them on a smooth surface to get rid off the lumps.
8. Again heat up the wax at the temperature of 182 degrees Fahrenheit. Dip the candles once more fore few seconds and allow them to cool off.
9. With a sharp knife trim the candles’ bottom to get the desired straight base.
10. Hang the candles from wick for drying. When the candles are completely dry cut the wick in between to separate the candles.

Your bright colorful, fragrant candles are ready to adorn your home with beauty and grace.

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I am sure you’ve heard of de.li.cio.us. It redirects to delicious.com, but as a .us domain and social bookmarking site, I can’t help thinking that their creativity was first sparked from the lack of interesting domain names available. If you can take something short and to the point from your search on word navigator, your next step would be to check it’s availability. The following guidelines can speed up the process:

• Since there are 3,563 words that end in -us at the time of this posting, the easiest thing to do would be to copy and paste each list (by length) into a text document, which took me about 7 minutes. You probably won’t take as long, if you copy and paste only half of all the words.
• In the document, click Edit and Select All. Proceed to toggle the bullets off. Then use Ctrl+F and type us into the search box. Click on Find All. You will notice that the -us ending has been selected for all of the words. Now click on Replace All. Your document should no longer have any of the -us endings.
• If your document is 75 pages long, perhaps it would be best to weed out words before continuing. Or you can copy and paste the words in only chunks (maybe 30 words) at a time into this domain name regristration search (clicking on the us extension, while unselecting the com extension), so that your internet browser doesn’t freeze up during the process.

Of the first thirty words I submitted, 14 were available. Here is my example chunk with unavailable .us domain names crossed out:

fagaceo.us                          furacio.us
felonio.us                          furfuro.us
feracio.us                          garrulo.us
ferocio.us                          gingero.us
fervoro.us                          glaireo.us
filaceo.us                          glamoro.us
flavoro.us                          globulo.us
fractio.us                          gluteno.us
frivolo.us                          glutino.us
froufro.us                          granulo.us
fugacio.us                          gummato.us
fulgoro.us                          gumptio.us
fulguro.us                          hazardo.us
fulmino.us                          hilario.us

Honestly, if I were a business looking for an attractive and modern domain name, gumptio.us would be my first pick! If you don’t know, gumptious is an adjective that means enterprising (synonym to energetic, industrious, up-and-coming). Or how about furacio.us? Hurry up, domain names like these will soon fill up the Web 2.0 (or is it 3.0) scene! If you really don’t care what the domain name is and just want to set something up quickly, your best bet would be to submit one or two words into a domain name suggestion tool.