It's been awhile since I have been here, but up to my nose in making candles and filling orders. I learned a great trick from  [ * | Admin - Edited | * - airing surrogate ads will be considered as spam ]

When putting your wicks in the jar whether ready made or you made them yourself, after using a glue dot or using a glue melter take a pen and take out the inside so you just have the casing and when inserting your wick into your jar slip the pen casing over your wick and push down and whaa la you have just got your wick pressed down in less than a second. I found this to be such a time saver I wanted to share this with everyone.. Happy Candle Making and hope this was a best practice> Charlena owner of www.valentelane.com