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Category: Seasonal Crafts

Fall Apple Tea Light Candle Holder


It’s fall! And if your house is anything like mine, that means apples! Even for apple lovers, we seem to have more apples than we could ever eat. And while just a bowl full here and there makes me smile and is the easiest kind of decorating, some simple apple tea lights really make a home take on the feeling of fall. And they couldn’t be easier. So grab your teaspoon and some apples and lets make some votives.

Difficulty level: Easy
Time required: 2 minutes per apple

Things you’ll need:
Round teaspoon and tablespoon
Apples
Tea lights or small votive candles

Things to do:
1. Centering your tablespoon on the core of the apple, use it to scoop out a perfect circle from the top of your apple. You don’t need to go deep, just try to scoop out that nice, round shape for now.


2. Once you’ve got your base shape, switch to the teaspoon and carve out the walls until you have a depth that will fit your candle.

3. Pop in the candles and you’re ready!

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Gold Dipped White Shells


Beachy and wintery at the same time, these shells add a hint of glamor to a place setting, table or mantle scape or bowl arrangement. You can, of course, just add gold to unpainted white shells but a coating of matte white paint makes a more striking finished look. These are excellent added to other shells in a display or scattered across a surface on their own. Be sure to clean your shells well before you start working so the paint will adhere to the shells.

Difficulty level: easy to moderate
Time required: 20 minutes plus dry time

Things you’ll need:
Shells
White paint in a matte finish
Gold craft paint
Paint brush
Masking tape

Things to do:
1. On a covered work surface, paint the shells all over with thin coats of white paint, allowing for dry time between layers, until the shells are well covered.
2. Once the white is very dry, an overnight cure is best, tape off a small section of the shells, exposing only the area where you want gold paint.

3. For the neatest lines, paint an additional coat of white in the area you have taped off, this will help reduce paint seeping under the line.
4. Once dry, paint two or three coats of gold paint on the exposed area, allowing for dry time between layers.
5. Once the gold paint has dried, carefully remove the tape before displaying.

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