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With the sun setting earlier, light up your home with these DIY teacup candles.

Materials: 1. Nested pans 2. Partially burned candles 3. Candle themometer 4. Tongs 5. Teacups 6. Wick sustainers 7. Wooden skewers

Steps

1. In a small pan set over a larger pan of simmering water, melt down old candles; clip the thermometer to the upper pot, and keep temperature at about 185 degrees. Remove old wicks with tongs.

2. Cut a piece of wicking to the cup's height plus 2 inches. Clamp one end to a wick sustainer; tie the other end around a skewer. Dip wicking and sustainer into melted wax to coat them. Remove and stick sustainer to cup's bottom.

3. Pour in the wax, stopping 1/2 inch below the cup's rim. Allow wax to set, about 1 hour. The candle will harden with a well in the center. To even it out, use another skewer to prick a circle of holes about 1/16 inch deep around the wick. Pour in melted wax until surface is 1/4 inch below rim. Cut wick.

Episode 10: Sleep Deprived with coffee talk and side of sewing