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Autumn decoration: moody candlelight


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From rustic to festive

Candlelight is a real feel-good guarantor in autumn and winter. We have a few tips on how to spice up candles and tealights seasonally.

You need Grant Apple Lights:

  • Vase and bowl
  • Moss (from the florist)
  • pomegranate
  • Christmas candle, self-extinguishing
  • Crab apples

It's that easy:

1. Fill vase and bowl with moss.

2. Place pomegranate.

3. Put the Christmas candles in the upper opening of the pomegranate.

4. Decorate decorative objects.

You need this:

  • Wrapping paper (craft shop)
  • Tacker (department store)
  • double-sided adhesive tape (Tesa)
  • Sticker small cake tip (department store)
  • Hot glue gun and hot glue (by Dremel)
  • Punching pliers 3 mm (from Rayher, via: www.monisbastelkiste.de, 89 324 00, ca. 3, 30 Euro)
  • Satin ribbon in cream (craft shop)
  • Scissors (vonFiskars, about www.udig.de, about 20 euros)

It's that easy:

1. Cut strips of wrapping paper. (Dimensions approx. 14 x 80 cm).

2. Fold strips accordion-like.

3. Fold the strips across once in the middle. So you mark the middle.

4. Staple the paper strip in the middle.

5. Stick double-sided adhesive tape on each of the two long sides. Remove protective film. Fan paper strips and stick the pages together.

6. Stick the sticker on a small cake tip.

7. Place the hot glue point in the center of the paper rosette and stick the cake tip in the middle. Press lightly and allow to dry.

8. Using a punch, punch the paper rosette.

9. Thread the satin ribbon through the hole and fasten with a knot.

You need this:

  • vase
  • rosehip branches
  • Autumn leaves, z. B. Spitzeiche
  • Decorative wire (craft shop)
  • tacks
  • rosehips
  • Zinc wire (craft shop / flower shop)
  • Stumpenkerze
  • wind light
  • Herbstfrüchte
  • pumpkin
  • Bouquet from Viburnum
  • secateurs
  • side cutter

It's that easy:

1. Fill the vase with water and put in the obliquely cut rose hips.

2. Garland of leaves: Thread the leaves onto a decorative wire and fasten the garland to the wall with thumbtacks.

3. Rosehip wreath: Thread rose hips onto a zinc wire and put it around the candle. Knot the wire.

4. Complete the arrangement with lantern, autumn fruits, pumpkin and a bunch of viburnum.

What you need for the concrete tealights:

  • Portland cement
  • quartz sand
  • Plastic cup (supermarket)
  • tealight
  • Bowl for mixing
  • old whisk and wooden spoon to stir
  • steinchen
  • cutter
  • Newsprint for the work surface

It's that easy:

1. Mix concrete by mixing Portland cement and quartz sand in equal proportions and then pouring water until the concrete has a pudding-like consistency.

2. Fill the concrete in plastic cups, not all the way to the edge.

3. Press a second plastic cup into the concrete for the hole in the middle. So that the cup does not rise again, fill it with small stones.

4. Approx. 2 days, then carefully cut the plastic cup with a cutter and expose the concrete.

5. Put a tealight in the trough.

Tealight with berries:

  • Flower binding wire
  • Tree trunk (craft shop)
  • pagan
  • Rosehip Multiflora
  • Tealight (depot)
  • Wire cutters / diagonal cutters
  • secateurs

It's that easy:

1. Wrap a wire ring to match the circumference of the tree trunk.

2. Cut the heather and multiflora. Put together a few stems and attach them to the wire ring with myrtle wire. Lay stems again and again in shingled form and wire with wire until the circle is closed.

3. Place the wreath on the tree trunk and place a tealight in the middle.

You need this for the candles with pin crown:

  • Photocard in candle color
  • Block candles in 3 different sizes in purple and gray
  • Adhesive strips (eg Tesa)
  • Hot glue gun and hot glue
  • different cones (eg larch, spruce)
  • fireproof pad
  • tape measure
  • pencil
  • scissors

It's that easy:

1. Cut the photo carton into 3 cm wide strips. The length of the paper strip results from the perimeter of the candle plus two inches of addition.

2. Lay the paper strip around the lower end of the candle, overlap it and fix it with adhesive tape to form a cuff.

3. Glue the pins to the paper strip one after the other with hot glue.

4. Arrange the candles on a refractory surface.

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