It must be fall, it has to be, because I’m going through yarn projects, making crafts, candle holders, and all kinds of fun things! I LOVE FALL!!! It’s a super fun time of year for me! I love all the colors in the trees, the cooler temperatures, the craft fairs and the parties. The start up of the holiday party gamut. I am a crafter, I love to decorate but I don’t really entertain much. I love people, and I love to talk, so you would think that I would have lots of parties, but I don’t.
Although, out of character, I am hosting Christmas day for my family this year and I am going crazy with the decorating, and prep for the party. Now, I have promised my husband that I would make sure that it wouldn’t look like Christmas “threw-up” in our house this year. So I’m trying hard to make the house festive without making it croweded or cluttered.
I put together some really cute candle holders tonight using some really inexpensive items from Wal-Mart.
I got the idea out of a Partylite catalog. They have this holder that they call the “express it” holder. I can’t afford the 25 or 38 dollars for just ONE holder though, so I set out to try to make them myself.
I got three clear cylinder vases for $1.97 each, and three small bud vases for .97 each, I bought three sheets of cardstock or scrapbooking paper in designs that I liked for .59 each. I also used three tealights from wally world which were about .10 each, which brings my total for all three pieces to: $10.89!
I’m going to attempt to get pictures of them up here tomorrow, but until then, I’m going to enjoy them here!
I should note that if you want to make these yourself you should use unscented tealights with the metal cups instead of the higher quality scented variety. The bud vases will barely accommodate the tealight and so you might have to mold the metal cup a bit to get it to fit in the bud vase.