Turn Your Candle Making Into a Money Spinner - Learn How
By Kaye Dennan
Working from home can be a lot of fun and so less stressful than trying to battle the traffic and get home in time for the kiddies arriving from school. Producing your very own candle designs to make some extra money or even turn into a small home based business is not so very difficult.
Candle making is a fantastic way to make money if you are in the least bit arty and another great benefit is the fact that to start candle making is relatively cheap compared to some other small businesses you may want to start at home.
What is essential though, with the candle making craft is that you know exactly how to make a professional looking product and how to market it. Beautiful candles sell themselves, so concentrate on color, design and on quality candle fragrances.
Candles are ideal to take to markets, run party plans with or sell online and once you are confident you will be able to look for specialty shops to stock your products if that is what you want.
What you will need to get started is the right instructions to make sure that you attack this hobby in the right way. Candle designs change according to decor changes, as do most other art forms and once you know the basic techniques to make candles, you won't find it too difficult to keep abreast of the latest trends and change your designs to suit
Embedding flowers and petals into wax is a lovely technique, as is adding foil. Ice candles can be so effective. White candles with red chunks in them look great for Christmas. When you think about it, the possibilities are endless. Learn the correct way how to make candles and you will feel confident and happy with your work right from the beginning.
Marketing your product
Once you are happy with having learned some good techniques for candle making you can go ahead and start your business. Before setting about buying wax and making stock, research your market and know where you are going to sell your product. There are many ways and places to sell, but you need to research this so that you are making candles to suit your market.
Say you are selling at a market where there are a lot of tourists coming through it would be a good idea to have a 'boxed range' so that tourists can buy to take home as a holiday gift. Using your imagination in this way your research will help you decide exactly where to place your product in the market.
Party Plan
Make your candles in a 'theme' or a 'range' and here are some ideas:
From this you can see that there are a number of options. They are mentioned here for Party Plan but they could just as well be used for selling at markets and fetes, or even on the internet. It is very satisfying making money from a hobby that you enjoy and the selling opportunities with homemade candles are many and varied.
Kaye Dennan has been an art teacher and loves to share her enthusiasm for all things in the art field. Her ebook 'Candle Making - Start with Confidence' takes you step by step through making a candle. There are safety tips, a list of equipment needed and projects to help you get your confidence before tackling bigger projects. Just go to http://www.candlemakingcraft4u.com/home-business.php to read all about how to get started.
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