I was mooching around IKEA the other day (like one does!]) when I came across the following candlestick, reduced from £8 odd to only £2.40! It’s not the sort of thing I’d usually buy, but I instantly thought it looked spookily akin to my newest candlestick creation (albeit in miniature) and that it would work really well placed alongside it as a sort of ‘set’.
Here it is in its original form:

Small candlestick, original form
To make it fit a bit better with the prototype, I sprayed the silver bezel on the top black, added a larger black disk (made from an old tin can lid) to catch the drips, and added a spike made from a large screw. Here it is in the finished form:

Small candlestick, new form
And here ‘s the large and small versions together – voila, a perfect companion! How they do these things for the price, I’ll never know (although my original cost absolutely nothing, of course!)

large and small versions together
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