As many of you are aware, I have been offering a free Introduction To Candle Making course on this site since 2003. That course is immensely popular and I have decided to expand the course offerings.

In preparation for the expanded course offerings I have set up a new domain to enable upgrading the course software without interruption of the existing course. The free candle making course has been moved to it’s new home and additional courses are now under development.

The new course site is Artisan School

Here is a direct link to the Introduction To Candle Making Course in its new home.

We are planning to expand course offerings beyond candle making as well. If you are interested in designing and teaching a course at Artisan School, look over the site then use the teach a course link to apply. We will consider courses in most artisan, craft, and art subjects.

The first issue of my digital magazine for chocolate makers is now available (free). It has several great projects, instructions and more.

Get your free copy here. 

• Self contained - just download and open one self extracting file.
• Compact file size for fast download.
• Will run on most PC’s (older systems and pre windows 98 machines may have a problem).
• To run on Macs a pc emulator such as Virtual PC will be needed.
• Format - Just like a print book / magazine.

Most of us have never tried to answer that question, and it is not something I ever expected to know (or need to know). Thanks to undertaking the massive project to improve the chocolate mold illustrations on the One Stop site, I now know that I can easily pour upwards of 120 different chocolate molds a day - as long as I work at it from 9AM to 3 PM.

Perhaps I could produce even more, but photographing, weighing, editing the photos, uploading them, swapping the new ones with the old,  and adding to the product descriptions takes a lot of time as well.

This project which I expected to take months has actually come together much faster, although the last couple hundred molds are taking longer (I am dragging at this point). The vast majority of the molds has been completed - (approximately 95% of them) so a peek at the chocolate mold pages will show most have a nice illustration as well as a fill weight and expanded description.

It is hard work, but at least it tastes good.

A new project article is now available on making waxed teddy bear air fresheners. These are made with stuffed animals, and scented wax. They make great gifts.