I've made what I call "tea-light holders" for many years and sold a lot of them. I don't have a pic of any in my garden but here are a couple on the deck beside 2 of my garden totem tables. They have copper fittings on the bottom and can be attached to copper pipe and stuck in the garden soil. I've used them all around my patio for mood lighting. These are made with punch cups and dessert bowls and I used them on the patio tables last year. I made most of the garden ones with clear cups and saucers. We also spray the copper pipe with clear spray so it remains shiny. DH pounds the end of the pipe so it is closed and pointed and therefor goes in the soil easily. If you make them you need to sand the area a bit where the copper fitting goes and also between the cup and saucer. I glue with 2 part clear epoxy, which works well. The downside is that they fill with rainwater and need cleaning frequently.

The basket is actually darker than the candlesticks, but I think I had my flash on which is why it appears lighter. I KWYM about them looking as if they could get knocked over. I think that's why they're throwing me off. There's plenty of room on either side of the table and we have 2 toddlers here (2 & 4) while they and their parents are building next door. So far so good. lol. Tomorrow I'll switch places with the ones on the mantel, but I really like those & don't know where to put them if I took them off. Guess what I paid for the candlesticks? $7.00. Oh, I can't put them on the DR table because of the toddlers. They'd crash in a heartbeat!

Thank you!! I wish I could afford Yankee candles, Even if they are half price!! They're worth it though, they smell so good and last so long. Besides tea lights those big bulky candles in glass jars (Yankee and the candles that wish they were Yankee!!) Are the only ones I buy and I do have a bunch of them but theyre all scented and it can get overwhelming burning several in each room. I inherited boxes upon boxes of the tall skinny old school candles so I don't want to waste the expensive ones if I can burn these safely. I think I found a way to do just that!! Fill a bowl, jar, whatever with salt or sand and stick the candle down in there. So far so good. Sturdy and it won't drip all over the table, just the sand or salt around it!

Sorry for the topic swerve, but the Greens sure don't seem all that innocent: "...The company went forward with the sale, even though it had retained an antiquities expert who cautioned against the purchase. “I would regard the acquisition of any artifact likely from Iraq … as carrying considerable risk,” that expert wrote in a memorandum shared with the company’s in-house counsel, according to the complaint. “An estimated 200-500,000 objects have been looted from archaeological sites in Iraq since the early 1990s; particularly popular on the market and likely to have been looted are cylinder seals, cuneiform tablets.” Cultural objects looted from Iraq since 1990 are protected by special import restrictions that carry criminal penalties and large fines, the expert added. Hobby Lobby wired $1.6 million to seven different bank accounts associated with five different people to pay for the items. The artifacts were shipped to the United States in multiple packages falsely labeled “Tiles (Sample).” They were also sent to multiple locations. As the complaint notes, “The use of multiple shipping addresses for a single recipient is consistent with methods used by cultural property smugglers to avoid scrutiny by Customs.” On customs forms, the UAE dealer supplied false invoices that substantially undervalued the pieces, presumably as a way to avoid customs inspection...." And of course those artifacts were never merchandise in any Hobby Lobby store.