Vintage Tea Cup Candles

For Christmas gifts this year I decided to make everyone a vintage tea cup candle. I had a stack of tea cups in storage and really needed a new craft project – plus I really wanted to make everyone something homemade as part of their overall Christmas presents. I have to say that candle making (like this) was really fun and simple. It’s not without it’s problems, the wax cracking, not using enough dye and under-filling the cups, but this aside I think even the most non-crafty person could give this a go.

These vintage cup are all Queen Anne bone china and Colclough bone china, some are passed down from my Grandma, others are sourced by my Mum from charity shops in Whitstable and the rest were cups I had in storage. I wanted the candles I made to leave minimal damage on the tea cups so I opted for soya wax from candles4u. The soya wax is so soft that you can literally wash any residue out once the candle is finished, meaning you can again use the cup for tea or grab a wax refill.

Here’s a sample of the finished product. I boxed them all up with lovely brown recycled card boxes, Petra Boase happy tape, some second hand coral string and a homemade label. I wish I had a picture of them boxed but I was rushing around so much at Christmas it just never happened. I still have a stack of candles left, I think these will work well as reserve pressies for Birthdays, Anniversaries and everything else. I know everyone has probably had a go at making these, I am a little late to the party, but what the hell I thought I’d share mine anyway. Happy Saturday everyone, I’m off to watch Gigantic (hope those bad reviews I read were bogus).