Okio B Designs: candle holders

I'm not sure where I picked up these fleur de lis candle holders. I believe it was a couple of years ago at Big Lots. Anywho, the candles got a little icky and wouldn't light anymore.

The glass has a kind of iridescent glow to it. A little boring if you ask me so I got busy preparing for a quickie makeover. After removing all of the gross wax, I gave each a couple of coats of flat white spray paint.

And here they are now! Sooooooo much better and more my style.

I gave one a Paris address tag tied on with twine. The other has some French book paper.

And a tag and French clothes pin.

I love the milky white color now. They almost look ceramic.

I think they still make for some nice candle holders, but wouldn't they be cute to hold office pens, plants, etc.?!

Jeanine

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I had my eyes on these since last year and now I think they are sold out.

Image courtesy PotteryBarn.com

Pottery Barn's LOVE votive candle holders. If I recall, they were over $40 for the set. Wha??????? Check out my $4 DIY knock-off version.

Of course I still have to add candles to mine. Super easy to make, though. I used the carnival font (the one I am so clearly fond of!) from DaFont.com. I typed them into a simple Word document. Space them out a bit because next you're going to print them onto clear label paper.

Simply peel and stick to your votives. You can probably trim your label paper to your liking. I don't mind the extra showing on mine. Up close it actually makes the glass look frosted.

Not bad for $4. The votives are from Michael's at 99 cents a piece. I had a coupon so they were actually even cheaper than that. The clear label paper is about $19 for a pack of 20 sheets but since I already had some - I spent zero on that.

What do you think compared to the PB ones? Four dollars is definitely more my speed - especially given my new year's resolution on watching my spending.

Jeanine

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Saw some lovely mason jar candle holders on Pinterest yesterday. Since I have a ton of them, I decided to make a few myself:

I took some vintage sheet music and ripped it on both sides so it would fit around each jar. First, I distressed the edges a bit for a nice aged look.

Next, I wrapped the sheet music around each jar and used a glue dot to hold the overlapping piece in place.

Tie a piece of twine around, knot it and done! You have some super cute candle holders in a matter of minutes. I'm thinking of lining these up our front walk for our next outdoor party!

Jeanine

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We have a busy weekend planned, so I wanted to share some quick patriotic candle holders I made using some food cans.

Even though these aren't quite Memorial Day images, I think they still represent our patriotism. I printed them out from the Graphics Fairy. I mod podged each image on and then gave each a quick spray of clear paint.

Once the paint was dry, I added some German glass glitter and some random faux pearl embellishments here and there. I used some tea-stained seam binding for the one in the middle.

I love that these cost me $0 and I can't wait to light them up over the long holiday weekend. And of course, I want to thank all of our military members for their dedicated service. God bless America!

Jeanine

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Ever start a project and end up scratching your head halfway through? That's what happened to me with these fleur de lis candlesticks. I picked them up from a thrift store last week. They were originally white but a little grungy. I thought they would look good with a chocolate brown makeover but...

They went back to white. I did indeed paint them brown but it was a flat brown and they looked, well, icky. So I gave them a fresh coat of gloss white over the brown. I did just one coat because I did want some of the brown to show through for an aged look.

Not sure if you can see remnants of the brown peeking through in my photos.

I added some French script candles to them. The ones from my Etsy shop fit quite nicely. I may have to use these for props when photographing them!

So three coats of spray paint later and I'm back to white. At least it's not the original grungy white.

Jeanine

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