Friday Foto Finish Fiesta, 2010.01.01
I love a good deal. And even if I don’t need the item, well I still love a good deal. And I love decorating, not like a total over hauling of an entire room, just rotating my stuff makes me really happy.
Two years ago I picked up a set of three candle stick holder things at T.J. Maxx.Marked down after the holiday season, they were heavy metal with some greenery woven through, couple of frosted red berries, little bit of grapevine. I decorate largely in botanicals so I thought this would be a perfect fit with the rest of my holiday decorations.
My original plan was to use these along the fireplace mantel, which would be very unlike me. I am a big fan of even numbers and symetrical settings so to plan on using three of these on my fireplace was a foreign thought, like a brain fart I guess.
And on a side note, brain farts are important. They must be released quickly. If allowed to build up the can cause shitty ideas.
Back to the story at hand. When I returned home with these Stellar Sale Price candle holders the bottom tripod was too wide to fit on the mantel, I hadn’t even thought of that little detail. I hadn’t imagine these suckers anywhere but above the fireplace.
I parked two of the candle holders on the dining room buffet. I’ll admit they looked unsteady on that tiled counter so I positioned a few metal birds in front for protection.
And I put the other three-legged candle holder in the dining room on the corner table.
Incidentally, the corner table serves no purpose other than to hold some fake fruit and the vintage sewing basket where we keep the rechargable batteries and battery rechargers.
At this point, I will let the pictures tell the story.
At some point, one of the resident idiots quickly and carelessly I went digging for a battery.
Never in my widest imagination did I anticipate a result like this:
What’s happening in your home ?
Yikes! That’s scary! Hopefully it will find a home somewhere relatively safer.
Wow!! I can’t believe it made a hole in the floor!!