A number of years ago I bought some “fake” Holiday candles. They looked nice with a rather real flickering candle effect. At the end of the season, I packed them up with all the other decorations and put them out in the garage. However, this was in Palm Desert, and even if they weren’t “real” candles, subjecting them to the heat of a desert summer in my garage was not wise.
When we pulled them out the next year, they had melted, as you can see. My mom looked at them and initially thought we would have to throw them out, but they still worked just fine. And after we stared at them for a while, we realized we actually liked the new look: they now appear to have been burning for a while, giving them an even more realistic effect.
Now every year when we pull them out of the drawer (no more garage storage!), we think about the serendipitous “mistake” we made. The holidays wouldn’t be the same without them.
The wreath, by the way, is one I made 4 or 5 years ago from paper. A true labor of love as it involved hundreds of leaves.
Tuples and Attributes 