The Moving Flame Pillar Candles are so pretty. The light shines the whole way through, our pictures do not do them justice. They have an on, an off, and a 6 hour TIMER setting. So if you turn it on the timer setting at 5 pm, it will automatically turn off at 11 pm and come back on by themselves again the next day at 5 pm…until the batteries run out. Speaking of which, they take 3 AAA batteries. We take a plain old drizzled pillar, grunge them up with color and spice, and don’t forget, they…