Okio B Designs: candles

I always have a ton of Dollar Store candles in the house. Given last year's hurricane, I think it's wise to stock up. Unfortunately, they aren't the prettiest candles in the world. That is until you dress them up...

I printed off the images onto clear transfer paper. The women are from Pinterest. The bee with the crown is from The Graphics Fairy.

I simply cut around the images. Then just peel and stick.

Super quick and easy way to dress up boring candles.

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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Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! I can't believe how fast it came and went. Today was so dreary here that me and the kids actually started taking some decorations down. Then we hit Target for some lights for next year. Somehow I came home with two of these pretties:

Yup, Target already has some Valentine's Day items out. So of course that made me start working on a Valentine's Day windowsill for the kitchen.

The pink glasses are actually candle holders from Ikea that I picked up last year.

And some of the reds that I had out for Christmas, I keep out for Valentine's Day. How cute is that little heart pen? In the dollar aisle!

My husband thinks I'm crazy but when in Rome, right?! Besides, Target started it - not me!

Jeanine

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I can't believe there are 10 more days until Christmas! I made a couple of last minute holiday pieces yesterday. Both from the Dollar Store:

These itty bitty candles are maybe 2 inches tall. I printed out the great vintage image from The Graphics Fairy (wallet-size!) and used Mod Podge to glue them to the glass. After the second coat dried, I simply added two little red rhinestones which I think work perfectly with the vintage image.

This is my last little Dollar Store birdie. I think I bought every single one when they first came out two years ago. I gave her a fresh coat of white paint.

Then I used my Mod Podge again to add some German glass glitter all over. I love how she sparkles!

I have a couple more holiday items planned and then I guess I'll be moving on to, gulp, Valentine's Day! =)

Linking to The Graphics Fairy: Brag Monday.

Jeanine

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