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Comment by Carol on November 27, 2014 at 10:29am: Thanks Aladdin!!! I thoroughly enjoy watching them when I chill in my bedroom at night!!!

Comment by Aladdin 2 Lava on November 27, 2014 at 8:23am: Absolutely gorgeous Carol... a real labour of lava love! I Your purple is to die for :)))

Comment by Carol on November 25, 2014 at 7:09pm: Oh that's right Vox!!! You were busy sunning in good ole Costa Rico when I did my latest creation.....the green greenie!!! haahaahaaa......

Comment by VOXul on November 25, 2014 at 12:24pm: Those colors look excellent together, nice work!

Comment by Carol on November 25, 2014 at 10:36am: They are my homemade MT goo plus my dye blends that I freeze and make myself. Then I drop pieces in to my flowing lamps so I can control my coloring saturation better then just dropping 2 different color dyes in. I can blend first, and this way if I don't like the color combo I get, I am only wasting a tablespoon of goo instead of the whole lamp being trashed. Once that dye goes in to the lamp flowing, you can't really change it if you screw it up. I freeze it so I'm not dropping melted wax into the water. This way it melts while in the lamp and saturates while flowing. If I dropped hot wax melted already into the lamp it would be a mess as you know. So I make what I refer to as dye cubes instead of ice cubes. They really aren't cubes, but once I break a piece out of the cup are like pieces of frozen dyed wax.....I can't take credit for this idea though. Keith suggested that I can do it that way and it worked out great!!!

Comment by Carol on November 25, 2014 at 9:30am: Yep Jus, the pink one really is a bubblegum pink!!! It was really a fluke the way that I did it. On the advice of Keith, I took about a tablespoon of mt goo and melted it in a glass cup. Then I added a toothpick speck of red, and then the same with the violet dye. I blended them accordingly until I got the right shade that I thought would work with the white goo. (Remember red and white makes pink, so I had to compensate in my head the white in the goo). Then I froze this. I then added the "dye cubes" a little bit at a time. Here's where the weird part comes in. It went through several metamorphoses!! First it was a pastel pink (see in my pics of Little Boy Blue and Ms. Pink if interested). Then it started to look like a peach color. I didn't like it, so here's where I started playing, lol!!! I started adding tiny amounts of more of the violet dye. Then small amounts of red. I basically kept messing with it. (My OCD). Oh, this is the REALLY WEIRD part. It turned back to it's clear state for awhile. (I have vids of this transition as well). So this lamp really was QUITE a few different colors before it decided to stay the bubblegum pink that it is now, lol!!! TMI right, lol!!!!! I took a vid called "Sailing". This was done purposely in natural daylight to try and capture the colors as close to their natural state as I could. Even though it does look a tad lighter in the video then it is, it's pretty close......

Comment by Jus on November 24, 2014 at 11:04pm: They look great! Is the pink one really that color in person? Sometimes cameras show colors different than they really are, but if it really is that color---how did you do that?