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    Cool Candles

    27 Of The Most Creative Candle Designs Ever

    Long before the invention of the light bulb (thank you Thomas Edison) candles were a necessary creation. Despite the fact every house is equipped with plenty of light bulbs, electrical outlets, and cell phones with flashlight features, candles are still incredibly popular. Chances are you have a couple candles in your house right now.

    Some people (myself included) can’t buy enough candles, there’s just something so special about them. For one, they smell really nice. They also provide a room with a cozy, romantic quality. Plus, with all of the different styles available on the market today, you can really dress up your home decor with candles.

    If you are a candle lover you will adore this list of the most creative candle designs ever!

    http://www.earthporm.com/27-creative...-designs-ever/

    These are so neat. My favorites from the list...


    1. Reusable Candle Holder

    As this candle melts it is transferred into the candleholder, keeping your favorite candles burning longer than ever.



    2. Candles That Create Shadow Art





    3. Cat Skeleton Candle

    This cat skeleton candle just gets cooler and cooler as it melts down to its bones…





    5. Melting Yolk Realistic Egg Candle

    The perfect candle to burn while eating your breakfast!



    6. Light Bulb Candle

    This candle pays tribute to the invention that could have made the candle obsolete. Thankfully, the world loves candles way too much to give them the boot! Speaking of the light bulb, it wasn’t just Thomas Edison that invented the popular light source. Edison had some help from two other intelligent inventors, Hiram Maxim and Joseph Swan.



    8. Pretty Candle, Matchbook Included!

    With the matchbox included, this candle makes lighting a fire even more convenient.



    9. A Candle With Spine

    Every spine doctor needs one of these in their office!




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    11. Free Yourself Candle

    Feeling trapped by the demands of life? Allow this candle to symbolically free your soul.




    12. Rainbow Light Candle

    This candleholder is specially engineered to let off multiple colors of light all at once.



    14. The Perfect Way To Cork Your Wine… With A Candle!

    Um, no. I would forget about the candle and burn myself. Anyway, Franzia Chillabe Red doesn't have a cork, it has a spigot.




    17. Unwrapped Banana Candle

    Occam's Candle?



    18. Cthulhu Candle

    Another candle for the Banana Man?



    19. Charmander Candle



    20. Hand Gesture Candles

    Say something nice, peaceful, or rude with this assortment of hand gesture candles.

    The bird finger would make a nice passive-aggressive gift.


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    11. Free Yourself Candle

    Feeling trapped by the demands of life? Allow this candle to symbolically free your soul.




    12. Rainbow Light Candle

    This candleholder is specially engineered to let off multiple colors of light all at once.



    14. The Perfect Way To Cork Your Wine… With A Candle!

    Um, no. I would forget about the candle and burn myself. Anyway, Franzia Chillabe Red doesn't have a cork, it has a spigot.




    17. Unwrapped Banana Candle

    Occam's Candle?



    18. Cthulhu Candle

    Another candle for the Banana Man?



    19. Charmander Candle



    20. Hand Gesture Candles

    Say something nice, peaceful, or rude with this assortment of hand gesture candles.

    The bird finger would make a nice passive-aggressive gift.


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    22. One Candle, Multiple Wicks

    Okay, that's just cool as hell.



    23. Burning Love Candle

    This candle is perfect considering it is almost Valentine’s Day…

    Awww.... it's cute but you'd better have some flowers, jewelry, or chocolate to go with it.



    26. Campfire Candle



    27. Creepy Hand Candle

    When Halloween rolls around this year I know what candle to buy…

    I love it!


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    Just so long as it's none of that fakey phoney fraud LED "candle" nonsense.

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    I prefer oil lamps.


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    And on a shelf by my desk as we speak:




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    Oil lamps are awesome. I have a couple of crystal ones that were my Grandmothers.

    I don't like the fake LED candles either.

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    those.are.awesome.
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    Pfft. My choice of candle is the classic, yet cheesy Italian wine bottle drip candle. Don't see that much these days.
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    Chester Copperpot
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    those are all very cool

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    Quote Originally Posted by amy31416 View Post
    Pfft. My choice of candle is the classic, yet cheesy Italian wine bottle drip candle. Don't see that much these days.
    We have a yuel log like that that dates to my parents first Christmases .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Yes , we have lots of those . Oil lamps .Pretty handy .

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    Quote Originally Posted by amy31416 View Post
    Pfft. My choice of candle is the classic, yet cheesy Italian wine bottle drip candle. Don't see that much these days.


    I've got a few of those from my wine out of a bottle days...



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    Quote Originally Posted by Suzanimal View Post


    I've got a few of those from my wine out of a bottle days...


    I've been thinking about making one, just because I have a lot of stick candles and glass bottles around. No cheap Italian wine bottles though--I wonder if they even make that shape of bottle anymore. The Italian restaurant I went to as a kid always had them--this'll give me an excuse to buy some wine!
    Those who want liberty must organize as effectively as those who want tyranny. -- Iyad el Baghdadi

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    Quote Originally Posted by amy31416 View Post


    I've been thinking about making one, just because I have a lot of stick candles and glass bottles around. No cheap Italian wine bottles though--I wonder if they even make that shape of bottle anymore. The Italian restaurant I went to as a kid always had them--this'll give me an excuse to buy some wine!
    Plenty of trendy/yuppie wine candle holders out there, but I know what you're looking for:

    The Port wine bottle in netting...or this:


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    Quote Originally Posted by amy31416 View Post


    I've been thinking about making one, just because I have a lot of stick candles and glass bottles around. No cheap Italian wine bottles though--I wonder if they even make that shape of bottle anymore. The Italian restaurant I went to as a kid always had them--this'll give me an excuse to buy some wine!
    We used Mateus wine bottles. It's what my parents drank when we were kids. The bottle used to look like this vvv but I'm not sure what it looks like now.




    Who the hell needs an excuse to drink wine???

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Plenty of trendy/yuppie wine candle holders out there, but I know what you're looking for:

    The Port wine bottle in netting...or this:

    That's it! I actually tried looking for a pic but my connection was too slow with images. Ahh, nostalgia. I doubt I even like port wine though.
    Those who want liberty must organize as effectively as those who want tyranny. -- Iyad el Baghdadi

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    Quote Originally Posted by Suzanimal View Post
    17. Unwrapped Banana Candle

    Occam's Candle?



    18. Cthulhu Candle

    Another candle for the Banana Man?


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    Quote Originally Posted by amy31416 View Post
    That's it! I actually tried looking for a pic but my connection was too slow with images. Ahh, nostalgia. I doubt I even like port wine though.
    Everyone likes port wine.
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    This opportunity to present one of the many classics from Bastiat's oeuvre cannot be allowed to pass ...

    The Petition of the Candlemakers
    http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
    Frédéric Bastiat (1845)

    An open letter by Frédéric Bastiat to the French Parliament, originally published in 1845.

    A PETITION From the Manufacturers of Candles, Tapers, Lanterns, sticks, Street Lamps, Snuffers, and Extinguishers, and from Producers of Tallow, Oil, Resin, Alcohol, and Generally of Everything Connected with Lighting.

    To the Honourable Members of the Chamber of Deputies.

    Gentlemen:

    You are on the right track. You reject abstract theories and have little regard for abundance and low prices. You concern yourselves mainly with the fate of the producer. You wish to free him from foreign competition, that is, to reserve the domestic market for domestic industry.

    We come to offer you a wonderful opportunity for your — what shall we call it? Your theory? No, nothing is more deceptive than theory. Your doctrine? Your system? Your principle? But you dislike doctrines, you have a horror of systems, as for principles, you deny that there are any in political economy; therefore we shall call it your practice — your practice without theory and without principle.

    We are suffering from the ruinous competition of a rival who apparently works under conditions so far superior to our own for the production of light that he is flooding the domestic market with it at an incredibly low price; for the moment he appears, our sales cease, all the consumers turn to him, and a branch of French industry whose ramifications are innumerable is all at once reduced to complete stagnation. This rival, which is none other than the sun, is waging war on us so mercilessly we suspect he is being stirred up against us by perfidious Albion (excellent diplomacy nowadays!), particularly because he has for that haughty island a respect that he does not show for us [1].

    We ask you to be so good as to pass a law requiring the closing of all windows, dormers, skylights, inside and outside shutters, curtains, casements, bull's-eyes, deadlights, and blinds — in short, all openings, holes, chinks, and fissures through which the light of the sun is wont to enter houses, to the detriment of the fair industries with which, we are proud to say, we have endowed the country, a country that cannot, without betraying ingratitude, abandon us today to so unequal a combat.

    Be good enough, honourable deputies, to take our request seriously, and do not reject it without at least hearing the reasons that we have to advance in its support.

    First, if you shut off as much as possible all access to natural light, and thereby create a need for artificial light, what industry in France will not ultimately be encouraged?

    If France consumes more tallow, there will have to be more cattle and sheep, and, consequently, we shall see an increase in cleared fields, meat, wool, leather, and especially manure, the basis of all agricultural wealth.

    If France consumes more oil, we shall see an expansion in the cultivation of the poppy, the olive, and rapeseed. These rich yet soil-exhausting plants will come at just the right time to enable us to put to profitable use the increased fertility that the breeding of cattle will impart to the land.

    Our moors will be covered with resinous trees. Numerous swarms of bees will gather from our mountains the perfumed treasures that today waste their fragrance, like the flowers from which they emanate. Thus, there is not one branch of agriculture that would not undergo a great expansion.

    The same holds true of shipping. Thousands of vessels will engage in whaling, and in a short time we shall have a fleet capable of upholding the honour of France and of gratifying the patriotic aspirations of the undersigned petitioners, chandlers, etc.

    But what shall we say of the specialities of Parisian manufacture? Henceforth you will behold gilding, bronze, and crystal in candlesticks, in lamps, in chandeliers, in candelabra sparkling in spacious emporia compared with which those of today are but stalls.

    There is no needy resin-collector on the heights of his sand dunes, no poor miner in the depths of his black pit, who will not receive higher wages and enjoy increased prosperity.

    It needs but a little reflection, gentlemen, to be convinced that there is perhaps not one Frenchman, from the wealthy stockholder of the Anzin Company to the humblest vendor of matches, whose condition would not be improved by the success of our petition.

    We anticipate your objections, gentlemen; but there is not a single one of them that you have not picked up from the musty old books of the advocates of free trade. We defy you to utter a word against us that will not instantly rebound against yourselves and the principle behind all your policy.

    Will you tell us that, though we may gain by this protection, France will not gain at all, because the consumer will bear the expense?

    We have our answer ready:

    You no longer have the right to invoke the interests of the consumer. You have sacrificed him whenever you have found his interests opposed to those of the producer. You have done so in order to encourage industry and to increase employment. For the same reason you ought to do so this time too.

    Indeed, you yourselves have anticipated this objection. When told that the consumer has a stake in the free entry of iron, coal, sesame, wheat, and textiles, "Yes,'' you reply, "but the producer has a stake in their exclusion.'' Very well, surely if consumers have a stake in the admission of natural light, producers have a stake in its interdiction.

    "But,'' you may still say, "the producer and the consumer are one and the same person. If the manufacturer profits by protection, he will make the farmer prosperous. Contrariwise, if agriculture is prosperous, it will open markets for manufactured goods.'' Very well, If you grant us a monopoly over the production of lighting during the day, first of all we shall buy large amounts of tallow, charcoal, oil, resin, wax, alcohol, silver, iron, bronze, and crystal, to supply our industry; and, moreover, we and our numerous suppliers, having become rich, will consume a great deal and spread prosperity into all areas of domestic industry.

    Will you say that the light of the sun is a gratuitous gift of Nature, and that to reject such gifts would be to reject wealth itself under the pretext of encouraging the means of acquiring it?

    But if you take this position, you strike a mortal blow at your own policy; remember that up to now you have always excluded foreign goods because and in proportion as they approximate gratuitous gifts. You have only half as good a reason for complying with the demands of other monopolists as you have for granting our petition, which is in complete accord with your established policy; and to reject our demands precisely because they are better founded than anyone else's would be tantamount to accepting the equation: + x + = -; in other words, it would be to heap absurdity upon absurdity.

    Labour and Nature collaborate in varying proportions, depending upon the country and the climate, in the production of a commodity. The part that Nature contributes is always free of charge; it is the part contributed by human labour that constitutes value and is paid for.

    If an orange from Lisbon sells for half the price of an orange from Paris, it is because the natural heat of the sun, which is, of course, free of charge, does for the former what the latter owes to artificial heating, which necessarily has to be paid for in the market.

    Thus, when an orange reaches us from Portugal, one can say that it is given to us half free of charge, or, in other words, at half price as compared with those from Paris.

    Now, it is precisely on the basis of its being semigratuitous (pardon the word) that you maintain it should be barred. You ask: "How can French labour withstand the competition of foreign labour when the former has to do all the work, whereas the latter has to do only half, the sun taking care of the rest?'' But if the fact that a product is half free of charge leads you to exclude it from competition, how can its being totally free of charge induce you to admit it into competition? Either you are not consistent, or you should, after excluding what is half free of charge as harmful to our domestic industry, exclude what is totally gratuitous with all the more reason and with twice the zeal.

    To take another example: When a product — coal, iron, wheat, or textiles — comes to us from abroad, and when we can acquire it for less labour than if we produced it ourselves, the difference is a gratuitous gift that is conferred up on us. The size of this gift is proportionate to the extent of this difference. It is a quarter, a half, or three-quarters of the value of the product if the foreigner asks of us only three-quarters, one-half, or one-quarter as high a price. It is as complete as it can be when the donor, like the sun in providing us with light, asks nothing from us. The question, and we pose it formally, is whether what you desire for France is the benefit of consumption free of charge or the alleged advantages of onerous production. Make your choice, but be logical; for as long as you ban, as you do, foreign coal, iron, wheat, and textiles, in proportion as their price approaches zero, how inconsistent it would be to admit the light of the sun, whose price is zero all day long!

    Notes:
    [1] A reference to Britain's reputation as a foggy island.

    Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850), Sophismes économiques, 1845

    See also: Frédéric Bastiat, The Bastiat Collection (Auburn: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2011), pp. 227-232
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    • "Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
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    Quote Originally Posted by amy31416 View Post
    That's it! I actually tried looking for a pic but my connection was too slow with images. Ahh, nostalgia. I doubt I even like port wine though.
    The description was "Circa 1972"...LOL

    Here's one on ebay just waiting for a candle.

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/1913-Centerb...-/151562908414



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    Have the whole series of these pewter lamps from NH Pewter.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Suzanimal View Post
    We used Mateus wine bottles. It's what my parents drank when we were kids. The bottle used to look like this vvv but I'm not sure what it looks like now.




    Who the hell needs an excuse to drink wine???


    http://blog.wblakegray.com/2014/06/m...gest-wine.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by bxm042 View Post
    Everyone likes port wine.
    If it's sweet, I won't like it. I think it might be, never had it though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    I prefer oil lamps.

    I've never used one of those before, but just lately I've been dying to. Any tips on what to look for when buying one?
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    Quote Originally Posted by BuddyRey View Post
    I've never used one of those before, but just lately I've been dying to. Any tips on what to look for when buying one?
    A wick crank that feels smooth and solid enough to last, a globe thick enough not to crack the first time it gets hot, and a base heavy enough to keep it from falling over and setting the house on fire the first time the breeze blows by.

    Not much else to them to look for.
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    Quote Originally Posted by amy31416 View Post
    If it's sweet, I won't like it. I think it might be, never had it though.
    It is VERY sweet.

    Definitely an acquired taste.

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