Halloween Pumpkin Candles

A pumpkin candle has to survive the whole season, not one night, which is why these are ceramic rather than carved. Each one is a glazed pumpkin with a little hat lid — black, orange, purple, white and cream — poured by hand and finished so the vessel still earns its place on a mantel in late November with the wax long gone. Put the lid back on and it reads as decor instead of a used candle.

They suit a porch table, a Halloween party or anyone who starts decorating in September. The wax is all-natural, which matters in a small room full of guests — we wrote about why. If a lid ends up tipped onto a tablecloth mid-party, this walkthrough sorts it.