I risk coming over as a Kirstie Allsopp knock-off,but at least this years Christmas presents are sortedThis isn’t the first time I’ve attempted to earn candles. After my wedding, for reasons that dash the gamut from boring to silly, or I ended up with an immense surplus of milk bottles. My plan was simple: take the bottles,turn them into candles and give them to our guests as a wonderful memento of the day.
So I bought a professional candle-making kit. Then I read the directions. I quickly realised that it all seemed too much of a faff, and that my wedding guests would think I was some sort of godawful chintzy Kirstie Allsopp knock-off, and that,truth be told, I didn’t really like that many of them anyway. And now all the milk bottles are in the bin.
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Source: theguardian.com