Vintage Sugar Mold Tea Light Candle Holder

Have you ever seen a vintage wooden sugar mold? Not everyone knows what that is. Today I'm sharing how I styled my vintage wooden sugar mold as a centerpiece on our farmhouse table, along with tips for where to buy affordable votive candles, glass votive candle holders and/or battery-operated votives to complete the look.  

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I've been in love with these vintage sugar molds for as long as I can remember. While this one isn't vintage, mine is. This one sells for $42. The candles and glass inserts are not included.

I picked up my 12-hole vintage sugar mold at a vintage fair a few years ago for around $20.00. That was the cheapest I'd ever seen a sugar mold of that size so I jumped on it.

Prior to buying the 12-hole sugar mold, I had a smaller, 4-hole sugar mold, which I love.   

While sugar molds make great tealight candle holders, I also enjoy filling mine with other things, like these faux mini baby boo pumpkins I shared in Thrill of the Hunt #120. 

But back to the tealights. In order to safely burn wax tea lights in the wooden sugar mold, you need glass inserts to hold the candles. (In addition, the openings are so deep that a small tealight without a glass insert gets swallowed up.)  

Lucky for me I remembered seeing tealight candle holders at Dollar Tree. 

So I went back and hit the jackpot. Dollar Tree packages the clear glass tealight candle holders by 4's, so I got all 12 for $3.75! It goes without saying that when I got home and found out they were a perfect fit for the sugar mold I was ecstatic.

It was almost as if they were made just for the sugar mold!

While it's ok to use real tealights as long as you have glass tealight holders, I still wanted some remote-controlled LED tealights to make things simpler. But frugal shopper that I am, I just couldn't bring myself to pay the extra money for the convenience of a remote. So I went for the next best thing -- 24 LED warm yellow tealights with a timer for 6 hours on and 18 hours off.    

I set the tealights to come on at dusk.

I couldn't be happier with how the tealights fit and looked inside the sugar mold.   

These are Royal Norfolk Blue dinner plates from Dollar Tree. I love the combination of the blue plates and bright yellow lemons at each place setting. The plates are sitting on my favorite round woven hyacinth placemats. The wood bead napkin rings were a DIY I created for my Easter tablescape. 

For now I'm happy with my 6 hours on/18 hours off tealights, but I may eventually purchase the Homemory Flickering Flameless Candle With Remote. Whichever type of tealights you prefer, I hope you find your own sugar mold to fill with candles!

Well, that's it for today, friends!

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Sugar Mold Tealight Candle Holder 

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