Category: Miscellaneous

Aren’t those beautiful?
When finding the instruction on how to make water balloon luminaries I was thrilled.
It looks so easy (I haven’t tested it yet) and it’s worth to read the comments, too, to get the experience and more ideas:

• several comments tell about their experience with this technique: some had problems with popping balloons while dipping them into the wax and hot wax got everywhere, so it seems that one has to be very careful;
• somebody said that they saw poured sand at the bottom to prevent overheating/melting, somebody else suggested to put some water in the luminary for the same reason;
• I’ve seen mentioned somewhere to cast some plaster of paris on the bottom for the same reason;
• as Carol said for the geometric cut paper table lamp you can use battery operated tea lights;
• suggestions were given to put something between the layers, like leaves and somebody else told their erperience with this;
• I’ve seen somewhere that somebody glued (somehow?) the top layer of paper napkins on such wax luminaries;
• someone wanted to make parts of the luminary opaque which didn’t work, but somebody else suggested to use different coloured wax for the layers with a dark colour as outer layer and then carefully carve out a pattern through the outer layers;
• one comment even suggests to do a similar technique with chocolate syrup in place of wax to get chocolate bowls (hmmm! ;-));
• and somebody gave a tip on what to use if you don’t have a double boiler.

I’m not quite sure if I want to play around with this, but the temptation is strong ;-))

Links:
Water Balloon Luminaries