and I immediately thought of my old, cracking wooden salad bowls that have been sitting in my cupboard since before I was born.  I really think they are that old.

I really like the look of these, but they are no where near my price range starting at $570.  Ooo, that hurt! 
Here's my cheap knock-off, that sort-of, somewhat resembles it...

 

Grabbed the drill and a large-ish drill bit (I forget the size... um, 9/16? I think that's it...) and drilled lots and lots of holes into the bowls, and a hole saw to cut a hole through the center of one bowl.  And as you can see, these bowls were already starting to crack before my drill work...

Oops.  Nothing a little hot glue can't fix.  I glued the pieces back together, hot glued the bowls rim to rim, and then onto a wooden candle holder, like so:



I sprayed it with some off-white spray paint, let it dry, and hot glued some string around the middle (to cover the gap & the bumps of hot glue...) and it was done.  This is one of those things that I don't recommend putting a real candle into... just the battery operated ones :)






I love the look of it lit up... but I'm still trying to find something brighter than my little rechargeable candles.  Holding a plug-in candle in it isn't gonna work...