October - home of my favorite holiday - Halloween

Behold!  A Halloween gel candle!  Did I mention that I LOVE Halloween?  I do.  And this candle is pretty cool too!  It's also pretty eclectic in its trinkets.  A skull, a little witch guy, and something else, I'm not sure what it was (October was like 4 1/2 months ago).  The witch and the mystery guy kinda go together but the skull is totally out of place in this candle.  Maybe this was some kind of homemade candle?  Who knows...

Sticking with the Halloween theme I next chose this witch's hat candle.  It came in a clear plastic box and was marked at a whopping $6.99 from Borders Books.  Who in their right mind would spend THAT MUCH on that tiny candle?  It's not lined with gold!  I know, I burned it down!  Glad I found it at a thrift store for super cheap!
The next candle is so amazingly awesome it really does require a bunch of (but not all of) the 22 pictures that I took of it to be posted.  I have yet to find another candle to match its awesomeness.  I just couldn't wait to burn this one when I found it.  Who gives these things away to thrift stores???  And why???

It's a zombie hand candle!  You can light ALL of the fingers!

The back of the zombie hand!  Yes, the
fingernails are painted purple!

Without the flash you can really see the veins in the hand!

A couple of the fingers were broken.  This
one appears to have a "bone" in it...

Burning the hand makes it "bleed".

Burning also makes the "bones" come out!

This reminds me of Freddy Krueger.

The "bones" from the front of the hand

The "bones" from the back of the hand.

Once Zombie Krueger's hand was sufficiently melted down (and had set off the smoke detectors more than twice) it was time to move on to a less sooty candle.
Little Frankie Stein was the perfect choice.  He came wrapped in plastic and in his own coffin.

Isn't he adorable?!

He wasn't going to last very long because he only had one wick and it was situated in the middle of his abdomen.  Also, because he was a fairly small candle.  I decided that he needed a partner.  The Scaredy Cat was it!

Don't be afraid, little kitty!

They burned brightly together nicely.

Continuing with the Halloween theme the next candle I found was this one:

The embodiment of Halloween, in my opinion.

Here's the other side of the candle.
It's been waiting a while to be burned...
see all the dust?

Here's the aftermath of setting this one on fire...

If you look closely you can see that the outer
walls of the house started to melt down on
every side.  So much for Halloween!

Even though Halloween was a day away I decided to pick a non-Halloween candle to burn next.

Shiny red and twisty.
Time to test out the new candle holder...

It didn't burn like I expected it to.  But I do like
the way those spires were created.

After awhile the spires couldn't support their own weight.

After the pretty red candle I gave in and went back to Halloween.  :)

The ghost doesn't look too sure about this...

Our final candle for the month is...

A hand shaped candle formed in a cookie
cutter.  Talk about unusual.

A Cookie Candle

I have never seen, before or since, a candle molded into a cookie cutter before.  I thought it was very nicely packaged and it smelled really nice while it burned.  If you're wondering if I kept the cookie cutter once I was done burning the candle, I did not. I don't make cookies very often so keeping a cookie cutter was basically pointless.  On to November...

September Burnings

In an effort to recapture the beaches of the summer I burned this lovely gel candle filled with seashells, and driftwood(?).  Gel candles burn pretty fast, it wasn't long until I was on to the next one.

Maybe I should have saved this one for the month of July, seeing as it's kinda patriotic with its white stars on blue background.  In any case it put forth a lovely glow as the wick burned down the middle of the ball.

At some point in the summer the boys found this candle for me at a garage sale.  I thought it was unusual so they bought it for me.  Andrew decided it was time for it to have a stand on the candle holder chopping block.  I do not think the large translucent white blob in the middle of the picture is an orb or some other paranormal entity, although, basing my conclusions on the behavior of my cat I'd say it was just that.  I swear my cat sees things.  Things that really disturb him...  But I digress.  I'm guessing that the "orb" is a reflection of the candle holder thanks to the flash on my phone's camera.

July & August

The summer was a busy one for my family so I wasn't home a lot to burn new candles.  It wasn't until August that the next candle made its debut...

A lovely beeswax candle.  Isn't it pretty?  I like how it's rolled up from one sheet of beeswax.  This was the only candle to be burned in August, like I said, it was a busy summer and we weren't home much.  

On another note, congratulations to my friends, Glen and Ali, on their wedding at the end of this month!  You guys are the bestest friends anyone can ever ask for!

Congratulations, Brid-zynski family!!

June 2012

While visiting local garage sales I stumbled across two more candles that are identical (other than color) to the red one I'd started burning the previous month.

 

One even has a Marriage Encounter sticker on it.  Maybe that's where the other candles came from...

May 2012

May was a slow month on the candle front.  I only burned the two candles you see below.  The white one lasted most of the month.  Isn't it pretty, though?  I wonder how the candle-makers create such intricate designs...

I liked the red one because of the embossed cross on the front, too bad the paint was chipping away from the glass...

Time flies

I have been setting candles on fire since my previous post, I've just been super busy - y'know, the usual...work, kids, school, volunteering, living life, and so on... Which is why I haven't posted since what? November?  So, when I am able to carve out more than the 30 seconds it's taken me to write this, I'll continue with my posting of the unique candles that I've set ablaze, I promise!  :D

April's Showers (of flame and wax...)

April is an interesting month of changing of the seasons where I live.  I think the changing of the seasons translated into which candles I burned as well.  I started out with two, almost identical cactus candles.  I'm pretty sure I found these at the Salvation Army.

Next was a cute "It's a Boy" candle shaped like a pig, probably another Salvation Army find.

After the pig I went with a Christmas ornament shaped candle.  Like I said, my candle choices for April were all over the map!

Finally, I went into a spring-like theme with the rest of my choices.  Up first in the spring category, a cute gel candle with a butterfly nick-knack inside, and colored sand at the bottom.

Being so small, the gel candle didn't last long.  So, I moved on to a sandcastle shaped candle.  I've yet to find another candle like this one.  It was covered in actual sand and looked like it had shells embedded in the wax!

It sure was pretty when it was lit!  And it turned out, the shells were made of wax!

I went back to a ball shaped candle after the sandcastle melted down.  Isn't this smiley face candle cute? Especially when it's all aglow?

Returning to the idea of spring coming along soon, I decided to light a fish shaped candle.  Although, someone had gotten to lighting it first...but that didn't stop me!

The final candle of the month was a pretty blue square candle embedded with shells, real shells this time!  I even managed to salvage 2 shells and a starfish from it as it melted down.

If April's showers bring May's flowers I wonder what candles the month of May will bring...