DT Project year 11 - Make a candle holder
Imagine me a 15 year-old girl given the task of making a candle holder. Back in those days I was trying to be ‘alternative’ wearing hippyish clothes, claiming to have taken all kinds of mind altering drugs and reeking of incense and drinking fruit teas (which I still quite partial to, but I now drink them without milk). I was of the opinion candles were my thing, a world expert in fact on all things candle and candle related. Happily, I set about researching my project, contrary to the other subjects I thought this is my big chance the golden grade A* in sight, I was a world authority on candles, scented ones particularly.

Research done – all the best picture cut out of the Argos catalogue. Product specification done plus a risk assessment (I was a show off) Design development I even did a class survey of which design did they think was the best. A kind of elaborate hanging lantern was chosen, made prototype out of cardboard. Jobs a good one – into the workshop goes show off number one.

Spent ages measuring and cutting lengths of metal it was time to weld them together. There had been ‘the incident’ the year before and since if something had to be welded it could only be done under the cover of darkness, three months previously by a flame retardant teacher who was menstruating. The result being I had a small pile of lengths of metal and a grade D as the practical was incomplete.
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