Why our teal never comes out twice the same
Plant pigment shifts with pour temperature, and pour temperature shifts with the weather. We stopped fighting it.
Journal
Notes on wax, flowers and slow work
The first burn decides everything
Melt the top layer edge to edge, once, and the candle behaves for the rest of its life. Everything after that is easy.
On piping a rose in fifteen minutes
The window between pour and set is short, and it does not negotiate. Here is how we plan an urli before the wax goes in.