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...

March(ing right along...)

February's Root Beer candle finally burned out during the first week of March and I decided it was high time to consider burning some Easter candles as it was getting to be about that time of the year anyway.  Here's the first one I picked.

A cute little basket of Easter eggs.  When they had melted down to a gooey, unrecognizable mass I moved on to this lovely egg.

I love the way it glowed, especially when the lights were out when it was lit.  Unlike the red metallic present candle from January, this candle was completely wax, even the ribbon and flower.  Continuing the Easter theme, I burned this egg candle next.

By the time that candle met its demise it was mid-March and time for a change.  I hadn't collected (at this point) many candles that were gel encased in a glass receptacle be it a glass, fishbowl, etc.  But the next candle, a gel candle, came in such a cute glass I was hoping to salvage it for future use.

Isn't this the most adorable glass ever?!  I love cats and each one is different!  Eight in all!  The bottom of the candle/glass was filled with sand, so it looked like the kitties were sitting in the sand.  Too bad the glass broke in the process of burning the wick and melting down the gel/wax.  :(  I was so disappointed, I went back to Easter candles and took my frustration/sadness out on Mr. Cottontail here...

Cute as he was, he didn't stand a chance.  Especially his ears!

Waxy "blood" just poured right out of them!  Sorry, Mr. Cottontail.  Moving on, I decided to burn some pie candles.  Buh'bye, cherry pie!

And peach pie!

The final candle for March is an adorable little girl in a bonnet.  This one reminds me of Strawberry Shortcake.

Actually, after looking her up, I'm almost certain this IS a Strawberry Shortcake candle.  It was a candle made for Hallmark stores but I bought it at Salvation Army for, as you can see, $3.99.  Not too shabby considering it's probably from the 1980s.  The label says it was hand crafted in Japan for Hallmark.  I wonder what it cost back in the day...

Here are various views of her, on fire...

 At some point half of her face melted in.  Poor Strawberry.  :(  She met her final demise on the first of April...