At our beach house and at first I thought, eh, no candles here...til I looked right in front of me, on the porch. Someone gave us this candle when they visited.

This is an oil candle that we made out of a wine bottle. The wine wasn't the greatest, but in this case we were looking more at the bottle than the contents:

I also do not use candles except at Christmas, but here's what I use then:

We don't have many candles indoors anymore - certainly not interesting ones anyway - so mine are outdoors ;)

These are just basic glass candle holders with tealights hanging on our veranda......

We found this candelabra at an auction a few weeks ago. It was perfect for hanging in the walled garden by the pond. We bought the 'head' in the background of the last pic from an architectural salvage yard in Dorset. It was originally a fountain and had been commissioned by singer Toyah Willcox for her house just up the road from us in Wiltshire. As we both used to be fans - old punks, lol! - we had to get it!

Raphaellathespanishwaterdog: I want to come live in your house! Seriously... I can not get enough of your pictures.

I have lots of those timer wax candles with the flickering wicks around the house. Here are two on the mantle

Antler candlesticks on the dining table. And another timer candle in the lantern.

No candles for me because I have pet birds. The chemicals given off by Scented ones will kill them and I am paranoid to use any because of this.

I have no candle holders because candles are ecologically harmful (the fact that the scented ones kill birds is rather disturbing) and keep a few candles around only for the times when the electricity goes out. It's also the reason that I don't use our fireplace because the smoke is also not good for the environment.

My mother had a lot of candles when I was growing up, but she almost never lit them. Still she seemed to get more each year. When I was about thirteen, I built a tree seat in one of the pecan trees in the front yard, and at one point I decided that it needed lighting, and so I took a bunch of candles from the house and positioned them in the tree, spread out and around as far as I could reach. There may have been as many as twenty candles in that tree, and it actually did light up the yard when I got all of the candles lit. My mother agreed that it looked very pretty, but she made me take them all down because she was afraid I would burn the tree down. It was one of the few times the candles got lit.

Bonnie, LOL, I have a bottle of Seaglass Sauvignon Blanc in the fridge at our beach house right now! My son had friends down and one of them brought it for me. Maybe I should save the bottle!

Awww, Czarinalex.......you're so kind! Thank you :)

Too funny Sue! Yes, save the bottle and buy a kit to make an oil lamp out of it for your beach house. What a thoughtful young man!

Love these oyster shell votives. It's got a battery operated candle in it.

It's still too light outside for me to get good pictures of the candles lit, but here are a few of mine:

On the dresser in our dining room where I store my linens and candles, I have these two angel candleholders, originally from England, and three small votive candles.

Above the wine cabinet in our dining room I have these:

On our coffee table in the living room, I have another favorite candle that's actually lit, although doesn't look like it in this picture darn it. It sits beside my Michael the Archangel santo:

And this pretty angel candle holder sits on the dining room buffet:

Hey even before I saw the posts I figured I would take a pic of my candle drawer! Either that or the scented candles out behind the garage that I am "airing out."

LynnMN I am loving your statues/artwork. Can you tell me where you found them?

Thank you, Louise. I've lived here in New Mexico for many years, and none of my art or statues are new. All were found here in either Santa Fe, Taos or Albuquerque.

I've missed most of these "my house" posts, due to family needs, but I'm going to try to catch up. We use our silver candlesticks in the house in the winter, and in the sunroom in the summer. Great to sit out,no bugs, and enjoy the ambiance!

My sweetie-pie, Harry, on his fourth birthday with four birthday candles and a numeral candle, too. With Harry, too much was not enough!

He always had a "cake," made up of his favorite goods. He always had candles, too.

For his 4th, the cake was slices of red and green bell peppers (his favorite ), slivers of cheese (his favorite ), pats of butter (his favorite ), apple slices (his favorite ), and a thin slice of a beef shank soup bone (his favorite ).

I don't know why I didn't have broccoli on the plate that year; that was his absolute favorite. I can't remember what the two pale slices are on the front of the plate; I know I did not give him raw bacon, although that would have most definitely been...his favorite !

His "table" is the footstool to my glider rocker. It was just the right height.

I blew out and removed the candles before he could dig in. He always ate each treat separately, like first the butter pats, then the peppers, then the cheese...

This is my heart.

So cute!!

Do you guys think I have a problem?