Usually, in an old house, you get all these things and then some, but we’re just really dealing with a blank slate here.
Then, I just broke them to the size that I wanted using my hands and brute strength.OK, the strength required wasn’t all that brute to tell you the truth.
They ended up broken either way though..I brought the pieces inside and set them down to look like some of the apple picking ladders I’ve seen around.Notice how the “step” pieces get smaller and smaller as they go up..
I just used my hot glue gun to stick everything in place and then took some watered down dark brown craft paint and made the whole thing brown..I didn’t really love it.
I went back to the painting table and added some gray paint here and there, followed by just a smidge of white to try to “age” it a bit more.. Like I said, it wasn’t really the rustic harvesty look I was going for.
A little more on the creepy side for sure, but luckily that’s just what I’ll be needing in a few weeks!Bonus points if it’s in a pretty jar that can be reused!
I especially love the ones with the pretty lids with no branding on them for using in organizing projects once they’re clean!.If your candle is a higher quality one, it will usually have a softer wax, so grab yourself a butter knife and just slice right through it like it’s, well, butter!.
OK, it’s a little more challenging than cutting a stick of butter, but as long as you end up with some wedge-like shapes, or any other shape that frees up the wax, you should be able to remove the wax pretty easily.If your candle has wax that’s a little more brittle, you can put the whole thing in the freezer for a few hours and the wax should just pop out.