#2 - Attend a candle making workshop (66/101).

I am a huge fan of candles and crafts. When my colleague Melissa suggested we go to Candlefish at Ponce City Market to attend a candle making workshop, I quickly agreed and so did a few of my other colleagues. I was pleased to find out that Candlefish was started by the creators of Rewined candles, candles created in old wine bottles with scents that mimic wines as I have been buying Rewined candles for the last few years. Candlefish and Rewined started in Charleston and Candlefish now has a storefront in Atlanta as well. They have a fragrance library of over 100 candle fragrances, hold candle and other craft workshop and sell candles and other fun gifts.

At the candle workshop, we each chose a fragrance to create our candles with after smelling about 20 scents. I chose No. 039, which consists of plum, red berries and musk. We measured out the scented oil, mixed it with hot wax and poured it into a candle holder after securing the wick. We learned a bit more about Candlefish's story, why their candles are numbered, not named (so you have less preconceived notions about what scents you like and dislike), talked about candle best practices and learned that a candlemaker is called a chandler. It was such a fun afternoon and I enjoyed seeing how everyone's candles came out. We left our candles to harden overnight and went back and picked them up later that week. I suggest attending a workshop at Candlefish if you enjoy having your own candles and if not, I suggest stopping in the store to smell candles in the fragrance library (it is a great space and a lot of fun to test out what fragrances you enjoy).