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CPSC, Home Interiors & Gifts, Inc. Announce Recall of Snow Play Candleholder

Home product recall 04-046. Announced by CPSC on Dec 4, 2003.

  • CPSC: stop using it
CPSC’s own notice, on cpsc.gov

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The short answer

Announced by CPSC on Dec 4, 2003. Copied from CPSC on Oct 19, 2026.

Every line below is in CPSC’s own words, with its source beside it.

What’s wrong with it?

Flames from the votive candle can set fire to the rope linking three “sledding” snowmen.

Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

What should you do?

Stop using the candleholder immediately and return the candleholder to Home Interiors & Gifts, 2901 Trade Center, Suite 100, Carrollton, TX 75007, Attn: Snow Play Recall. Consumers should clearly mark the outside of the box with their name, return address, and total number of candleholders being returned, to receive a $20 gift certificate from Home Interiors for the full purchase price and shipping expense.

Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

  • How to reach the firm: Consumers may call Home Interiors on (972) 695-1000 between 9 am and 5 pm (CT) Monday through Friday or visit the firm’s website: www.homeinteriors.com.

Which ones are recalled?

The recalled candleholder is about 6 inches high and is packaged in a box with “Home Interiors” written on the top of the box. Each candleholder has three snowmen linked by a small rope, “sledding” down a hill around the votive candleholder. The snowmen are painted red, blue, and green.

14,338 units, as CPSC gives them.

Snow Play Candleholder.

Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

CPSC’s photos

CPSC shows 1 photo on its notice. Hearth Record doesn’t copy them; each opens on cpsc.gov.

Who made and sold it?

  • Made by Home Interiors and Gifts, Inc., Carrollton, Texas.
  • Home Interiors’ direct sales associates exclusively sold the recalled candleholders, from July 2003 through October 2003, for $14.99.
  • Made in China, as the notice gives it.
Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

Was anyone hurt?

Two reports of the rope on the candleholder catching fire. No property damage and no injuries.

Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

What the record doesn’t say

  • The notice lists no UPCs, so check the model, the description and the photos.
  • The notice lists no model numbers in a field of their own; its description may give them.
  • How many have been returned or fixed isn’t in the notice.
Source:

Hearth Record wrote these lines.

Sources

  • U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Recalls API.

    Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work). CPSC asks to be credited, and that no endorsement be implied.

Source:

Recalls of kids’ and home products are from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). CPSC does not endorse Hearth Record. Copied on Oct 19, 2026.

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