Fragrance Blending with Hand Poured Soy Candles | Kristen Pumphrey

Fragrance Blending with Hand Poured Soy Candles | Kristen Pumphrey | The Crafter's Box

Hand Poured Candle & Scent Blending Workshop

Name: Hand Poured Candle &amp; Scent Blending Workshop
SKU: WKSP201710
Price: 85.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$85

Kristen Pumphrey, founder and creative director of P.F. Candle Co., joins us to lead a workshop on hand poured soy candles and fragrance blending. P.F. Candle Co. is an iconic Southern California, family-owned candle brand known for its soothing, rich fragrance blends.

This workshop explores the craft of blending fragrances (by educating on top, heart, and base notes) as well as the process of building a wax candle from the ground up. Kristen introduces us to her favorite materials & tools (such as vegetable-based soy wax which is a renewable resource) and offers an introductory education on how she chooses P.F. Candle Co. fragrance blends. She shares that fragrances can conjure memories, create meditative environments, and define a special space. What we think is so special is that candle blends can be completely customizable to ones own lifestyle once a maker is familiar with the process.

This workshop includes:

A detailed, digital workshop on the techniques and execution of scent blending and soy candle making by Kristen Pumphrey
Tools and materials from artisan suppliers, curated for you, by Kristen

The tools & materials included in this kit:

20oz of vegetable-based soy wax
A custom fragrance profile of your choice:
- Original: bergamot essential oil, sandalwood, and rosemary
- Summer: cedarwood sage (base note), rose geranium (heart note), and zesty lemon (top note)
- Holiday: cedarwood (heart/base note), (top/heart note) orange, and clove (heart/base note)
Three glass jars with lids, three cotton wicks, clothespins, labels & blotter strips
An aluminum wax pouring pitcher
A candle thermometer

Happy making!

Difficulty:: Beginner
Make Time:: A Couple of Hours
Kit Type:: Workshop

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Poured Soy Candles | Craft + Foster | The Crafter's Box

Poured Soy Candle Wax, 3 lbs

More candles, please! Once you’ve fallen in love with candle pouring, you’ll certainly want to keep creating. Refill empty vessels or make all-new candles with three extra pounds of soy wax. Compared to paraffin wax, soy wax burns cleaner (less soot) and slower (which means your candles will last longer).

Materials included in this listing:

Three pounds of all-natural soy wax

Note: This listing is intended to accompany Craft & Foster's Poured Soy Candles Premium Workshop. Purchasing this add-on listing by itself will not allow access to Craft & Foster's digital workshop video or include all the materials sent in the full workshop.

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Utility Objects Ceramic Vessel

We’ve partnered with ceramic artist Aleisha Ellis of Utility Objects to bring you this limited edition, hand-crafted ceramic vessel—perfect for a special candle project. Aleisha’s unique and minimal designs truly showcase the beauty of the natural clay. The finished piece looks elegant on its own, or pairs beautifully with the apothecary jar and gold tin candles from the kit.

More About Our Collaboration with Utility Objects

We’re so excited to introduce you to Aleisha Ellis, the talented ceramic artist behind our stunning candle vessel—created especially for The Crafter’s Box as an optional add-on for our Poured Soy Candles Premium Workshop. Aleisha’s unique designs are minimal yet whimsical and organic, truly showcasing the splendor of the clay. Since 2018, she has been creating natural stoneware ceramics for the home under the brand Utility Objects. Aleisha’s passion for her craft shines through in every one of the ceramic forms she molds in her Atlanta-based pottery design studio. Her inspirations range from Scandinavian design to the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi.

Her ceramic artworks are not only elegant to the eye, but also functional for the home. Form meets function in these stylish pieces and it’s no wonder that Aleisha and her work have been featured in places like Dwell Magazine, New York Magazine, Architectural Digest, and Ceramic Review Magazine.

More About Our Poured Soy Candle Workshop Artists: Melissa & Chad Burgess of Craft & Foster

Husband-and-wife team, Melissa and Chad Burgess, have been creating custom soy candles for six years. The couple grew their business, Craft + Foster, from a local candle pop-up to a nationally recognized brand featured in Neiman Marcus, GQ, FabFitFun, and many more.

Melissa Burgess, wife, mother of four, and military veteran, received her first DIY candle kit in the spring of 2015 and quickly fell in love with the candle-making process. She found that it gave her a creative and therapeutic outlet while juggling the demands of motherhood and processing an ongoing journey with PTSD.

After signing up for a handful of local maker's markets, Melissa's unique blends, strong fragrant throws, and muted packaging quickly gained the attention of San Diego consumers and retailers alike. This early success eventually led to her husband Chad leaving corporate America and joining her in this "accidental candle company" full-time.

Materials included in this listing:

Utility Objects Ceramic Vessel, 2.75 W" x 3.75H"

Note: This listing is intended to accompany Craft & Foster's full Poured Soy Candles Premium Workshop. Purchasing this add-on listing by itself will not allow access to Craft & Foster's digital workshop video or include all the materials sent in the full Poured Soy Candles Premium Workshop.

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KRISTEN PUMPHREY
HAND POURED CANDLE & SCENT BLENDING

Tips for this Project:

Try your best to center the cotton wick as carefully as possible. The melting pool that's created as you burn your finished candle is based off of where the wick sits in your candle.
For a nice even burn, keep that wick right on center (secured with the clothespin) as the wax hardens.

A note on working with fragrance and essential oils:

Use caution when working with oils and always keep out of reach of children and pets. We recommend waiting to work on this project for when small children are not around to accidentally ingest or rub onto their skin/eyes. Oils can be eye and skin irritants.
Store in a cool, dry location and away from heat, sparks and open flame.
First Aid: As an eye irritant, flush immediately with large amounts of water. If wearing contact lenses, remove first. If swallowed, drink a glassful of water. Do not induce vomiting. Call a physician immediately. Contact poison control or call 911 to seek additional medical assistance.

More About Our Artist: Kristen Pumphrey

P.F. Candle Co. is a home fragrance company based in Los Angeles, California. It officially found its origin in 2008 (though Kristen began experimenting with candles at age 12) and has expanded rapidly since the launch of their signature apothecary-style amber jar candle line in 2012. After graduating from NYU with a BFA in Acting and Creative Writing, Kristen pivoted to a career in the publishing industry, where she worked at a craft magazine writing about DIY projects and the burgeoning maker community. When the magazine folded, she took it as an opportunity to relocate and try her hand at making things for a living. P.F.’s team of 22 now makes, ships, and sells all under one roof in East Los Angeles.

Hand Poured Candle & Scent Blending Workshop