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Howlin';

I was going to make paper candles for the harry Potter Halloween party, but this gives me another idea!!!!

MWUUUUHHHAAAHHAAA!!!!

(Boy, is my husband going to love the spending more money part )

I had about 50 of them, so they were all over. And quite a few were pretty close to the eye, (just out of reach,) and people could NOT see the fishing line. They actually had to ask how I got them to float.

My guess is that, when you look up at the candle, the background was so busy with leaves & branches, the eye could not pick out the fine fishing line. And I looked really hard at them myself. It was impossible to see the fishing line. It was a great idea and my mom was astonished with the effect.

We hung them so that the candles sort of made a path around the tree and over the driveway. Like a trail of floating candles. It started in the garage, then "flowed" out over the sidewalk, around a tree, over the driveway and around a second tree and met up with the begining, so it looked like a twisted loop of candles.

Funny thing is, the next Harry Potter movie, had the candles floating in much the same manner. As a path of candles through the air.

Trying to get them at different heights and within reach of a six foot ladder was a challenge. They had to be hung while turned on, sometime around dusk. I made a pole, with a slot down one side, so a safety pin can be opened and the sharp end was left hanging over the side of the pipe. (The slot was so that the fishing line can hang down, otherwise the safety pin would be pulled out when the candle hung from it.)

I lifted the safety pin up into the branches, and the pin point sort of hooked over twigs, and the candle would hang. The pipe was lowered, and the fishing line slid out of the slot, and the deed was done. I could hang several candles at quite a distance from each other in this manner, without moving the ladder as much.

The pipe was used to take the candles down again too. But that job was more of a challenge. But let's just say that many a cuss word was muttered.

When I first saw this, I was thinking that you meant the bouyant taper candle trick.... I'm going to use it to decorate my in-law's yard.

Basically... have some jars or vases filled mostly with water. Then, I'll put lit taper candles in the water. (They'll have screws in the bottoms, so it'll counterbalance along with the force - pgh - of the water to steady the sides of the candle.) Whee!

((pgh= specific weight of water * gravity * depth of water at any one point-- I blame that blasted test I'm studying for for my little outburst of fluid dynamics.))

Perhaps I should of used the term "Suspended" instead of "Floating".
But the deed is done. I guess I could change the title. But it may confuse peeps.

But, just out of curiosity, what would be a better name for the effect?

Suspended

Hanging

Floating

My thesaurus is out of alternatives

Hmm....I like Suspended...IMO-and this is a fabulous Idea! I'm hosting my first Halloween party this year, and I can't wait to use some of these ideas! I'm like a little sponge, just soaking it all in!