A comprehensive selection of vessels is set up by color and style. Courtesy Paddywax.
DISCOVERING ENLIGHTENMENT AT PADDYWAX CANDLE LIGHT BAR
The one and just crafting event I have actually ever willingly participated in as an adult was last December at the Smithsonian, where a good friend and I attended a lecture provided by the author of a book dedicated to artists and their feline muses.
After the discussion, we– cat enthusiasts all– submitted into the hall for the craft portion of the night, at which we were encouraged to produce cat-themed Christmas cards or ornaments.
Maybe we were still responding to the sly humor of the speaker– or we were simply drunk with feline love– however making these things was really difficult. All we could do was laugh helplessly at our attempts. It was really healing.
So when I found out that Nashville-based Paddywax Candle light Bar had opened a new place in Georgetown on Wisconsin Avenue, I was burning to go. Still, I wondered: Could I repeat that experience, or had I passed Peak Craft?
As it took place, I was just beginning. Candle lights have been around for over 5,000 years. According to the National Candle Light Association, the Egyptians were the very first to make use of wicked (noticable “wikt,” not an ethical judgment) candle lights. It wasn’t until colonial times that aromatic candles came into their own.
Now, naturally, they’re common in all shapes, sizes and rate points. Once you make one of your own, you’ll never see candles in the exact same light once again.
Paddywax’s Georgetown studio is an open industrial area, painted in white, accented in Southwestern shades of pink and blue and lit with hanging lights that look like inverted tapers. Along the exposed brick walls are shelves of candle light vessels, scented oils and personal products like note pads, mugs, appeal products and fashion jewelry– all with a handmade, artisanal feel and look.
Pouring a candle light is relatively easy, thanks to manager Leslie Bethel and her group, who guide apprentice chandlers through the pro
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