December 24, 2005

• Burn!!!

  Hmm... Surprisingly, food isn't the only thing I have to talk about this Christmas Eve...

  This is the candle I made yesterday. I think it looks like a pear, and it's a bit plain, isn't it? Of course it won't stay like this. This time I'm trying something I've never done before. I'm playing with hot stuff... Perfect for this cold weather. Well, playing with a soldering iron doesn't sound like such a good idea, but luckily, I didn't burn myself.

  Here I am, carving at the candle. This might not look like the most exciting thing to do on Christmas Eve, but it cheered me up a lot... I must've been getting high on wax fumes. xD

  Just kidding, melting wax with a soldering iron produces a lot of smoke, but at least I had the windows open and I'm not getting high on plastic fumes. (No prizes for guessing who I'm referring to xD)

  The soldering iron might be hot, but I realised that melted wax cools down quickly and I can touch it even before it hardens. I added other colours to my green candle, and by now, it should be quite obvious what I'm trying to do...

  Here you go... My Christmas tree... candle! That's all the Christmas spirit I'll have for my place, but I think that's enough... I don't even care about having Christmas decorations, I just made this because I wanted to make it. May be this is why I can never make anything nice - I make things just for the sake of making something, because I want to make something but I don't know what. This Christmas I'm totally on a Christmas tree theme even if I don't have a Christmas tree at home. There are the cards with the cellophane Christmas tree on the front, and now this candle. May be it's because it's the easiest. Even I can cut a Christmas tree shape on a card, and for the candle I just need a cone to start with. I'll move on to making other stuff with wax. It's a shame that I didn't have the wax and soldering iron with me last term. I could've tried making wax figures in sculpture class. Oh well, making this candle is probably a sign that I wish I didn't have to quit it. It would've actually been cool to bring the candle to class if I'm going back.

  
  I said that my Christmas eve isn't all about food, but of course I keep up with the tradition of the photos that make everyone hungry... xD I realise that the majority of photos I put here are either stuff that I made or food from special occasions, hence someone asking me why I'm not in any photos.

  I left my candle to burn during dinner. This is all that's left of it now. I decided to let it burn because I think the place can do with some extra Christmas spirit. I'll make a new one next year, this one isn't so good, it's only my first try at decorating candles this way. There I go again, I'm writing more about making things. I think may be it's a good thing I don't do anything like that at school, how unbalanced would I become? There, more about being balanced (or may be more about being unbalanced).

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