So you just live with a colour you hate instead for years and years.

I found some of the thinner scraps and set them down on the driveway.Then, I just broke them to the size that I wanted using my hands and brute strength.

OK, the strength required wasn’t all that brute to tell you the truth.They ended up broken either way though..I brought the pieces inside and set them down to look like some of the apple picking ladders I’ve seen around.

Notice how the “step” pieces get smaller and smaller as they go up..I just used my hot glue gun to stick everything in place and then took some watered down dark brown craft paint and made the whole thing brown..

I didn’t really love it.

I went back to the painting table and added some gray paint here and there, followed by just a smidge of white to try to “age” it a bit more.. Like I said, it wasn’t really the rustic harvesty look I was going for.Or however long it takes me to burn through the candle.

It’s the best.. Until this happens:.The wicks have all burned all the way down and will no longer light, but there’s still so much wax left!

So much more delightfulness left to be experienced!.I put two and two together a couple of weeks ago and came up with a pretty clever little solution to this issue, if I do say so myself!