Was a sunny day

Was a sunny day

Not a cloud was in the sky

Not a negative word was heard

From the people passing by

Looking outside from the garage/studio door Paul Simon's song started humming in my head. 

Ye I know its winter. Weather channels and weather people are very excited with all the exceptional weather happenings all around the globe but, here, in southern California we enjoy another sunny warm day in mid January yet my heart is aching.  I will have to say good bye to all this… very soon. Very soon indeed.

So I'll work till the last moment possible before I'll have to pack everything and get ready to go. 

Since the next event on the colander is Valentine's Day I am seeing reds and hearts. Reds and heart can be so…cheesy, so banal. Everyone is making hearts in reds or pink. Why can't I do what everyone else is doing? For days now I am thinking of reds and hearts and trying to put them together in a different unique way.

First of all the colors. Red of course and what else? I have to mix up the dyes into the Soy wax to get a nice red. It takes time for the wax to melt and while waiting I think about some other colors

 and how to combine the hearts, how to build them into the candles.

Colors Than the combination of them and the shapes. The first load of wax has been

melted and…a few drops of red, no not enough, a few more…that's it. 

  I have to try my plan first and only on one candle otherwise I'll come with something totally different from what I was seeing in my mind. Another disappointment? I don't need this right now. So patience is the word.

When all the wax was ready I chose moulds for the experiment. Poured a little bit of yellowish brown for the house of hearts, the with my tools I scraped away the lines of the hose and hearts, poured some grayish turquoise over to define the lines, waited a few minutes and poured the red. Not wanting to wait till tomorrow for only one candle I couldn't resist pouring some more, making them each one a bit different from the other. Now I have to wait till late at night or better tomorrow to take the candles out of the moulds and see the results for better or worse.

I will let you know!

And about the "saying good bye" to California we don't know yet exactly when but very soon we are leaving this southern spot of this beautiful, great state and moving to Lancaster, Pennsylvania and as much as I try not to think about it I can't help starting to get organize and make myself curious, exited and looking forward to this new adventure.