There were candles on the shelves, on the floor, fat and thin candles, tall and short, red and green and all the gradients of soft pastel, scented with the sweet and cloying flavors of guava, pomegranate, mango.
Determine if you want the candles to sit high on the tables, as you will likely purchase tall, thin candles.
You could try thinner candles when you feel more confident.
"I lit a thin green candle . .
Though he is working in Bob Dylan's shadow, his manner is more relaxed and his visions are slightly less gnomic: "I lit a thin green candle, to make you jealous of me.
After the last toll I'm handed a thin yellow candle from a stranger who lights it for me.
I had been singing at the Troubadour his music already — "I Lit a Thin Green Candle" [titled "One of Us Cannot Be Wrong"] and "Dress Rehearsal Rag".
In the pulsing pre-chorus, Rogers's voice leaps an octave and thins out, like a candle flame stretching for more oxygen.
You can also just cover the bottom or give it a fading effect -- having the covering be thinner and thinner toward the top of the candle.
