Thursday, February 28, 2013

Fire Starters

Since Tim is making Sharon's kitchen cabinets we have an abundance of maple wood shavings, chips and sawdust.  Time to make some fire starters for our new wood stove!
We melted down a few old candles...

Cut some wicks to length (picture taken by James)...



Dipped the wicks in the wax to prime them...


Then all the steps not photographed...wrapping the wicks around the pinecones,  rolling the pinecones in the wax, and then nestling the pinecones on a bed of wood shavings soaked in wax.

We tried out two last night and they worked fabulously!


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