A glass hurricane candleholder, globe or vase can bring a touch of elegance when used as a centerpiece on a dining room table. With the invention of the flameless candle, the sky is the limit when choosing materials to decorate because you no longer have to worry about an open flame becoming a fire hazard. You can now use things from nature such as pine cones, twigs, wisps of pine needles and other flammable items that you would not with the open flame of a candle.
Instructions
1. Start your centerpiece by making a base to put your hurricane candleholder on. Cut a piece of poster board in half and cover one side completely with white liquid glue. Sprinkle pine needles all over the glue-covered board so that there are no bare spots showing. Let dry, then turn the board upside down to shake off the loose ones. Go back and fill in the empty spaces with pine needles by dipping them in the glue first. The glue will dry clear, so use enough to make them stick. Let dry.
2. Place three clear-glass hurricane candleholders in a row on top of the pine-needle mat. They can be three of the same size or different sizes, depending on your preference. Fill one of the glass hurricane globes with small pine cones, another with mixed nuts in their shells and the last with acorns and twigs or pine needles. Bury four or five flameless candles in each globe, facing the flame light up against the glass. Place one small flameless candle on top, with just the showing.
3. Use a glue gun and attach pine needles along the rim of four to six flameless tea lights. The pine needles should be glued in bunches of five or six at the bottom of the tea light and fan out over the top of it. Leave enough open space so the flickering light can be seen. It will look like an upside down grass skirt around the tea light. Randomly place these around the pine-needle mat.
4. Add a small strip of red and a small strip of green ribbon loosely tied around each globe for a holiday centerpiece. Spray paint pine cones white and red for the Christmas holiday. Depict an autumn theme by using orange and brown ribbon instead. Then carve out miniature pumpkin gourds and place the flameless tea lights inside of them instead of using the pine needle skirts.
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