Candle Holders

27 May, 2007 in art pottery by admin

Candle Holders

Improving a Candle Holder

A table is not just a simple place wherein you eat. If you know that, and you have what it takes to make your table a grand one, go ahead and make it spectacular. Put a wall candle holder near the table to make it cozier and warm when your family or guests arrive. Surely, they would notice such nice décor in the dining area. They might even be interested in hiring you to make some candleholders for them.

One thing you need to remember when you are improvising or improving your current candleholder is to have an idea already on what you want to do. It may be hard sometimes to think about how you will make the candleholder a little more attractive. Try to look around you and see if you can get some inspiration to have a theme or sort of motif for your candleholders. You can even look at some of your furniture and perhaps get inspiration from there.

The trick here is to have something different for the wall candle holder. Putting a ribbon is a bit common. However, putting something else in the middle of the ribbon makes it unique. You can put your initial here using some beads to make it even more interesting to look at. Aside from the initials, you can even put a picture of a family member so that people will know that the candleholder they are looking at is personalized. People just love customizing their things because it gives a different aura when others see it. They just feel drawn to the item and sometimes even want to have one.

Another thing that you can do is to give your candleholder a paintjob. You can spray it with a bit of silver or gold so that you can use this any time of the year. All you have to do is to know what designs or ribbons for that matter you can use to make the candleholder up-to-date to whatever the season is. For example, if it is February, you can hang some hearts on the candleholder so that you know that love is in the air. For summer, you can put a sun or shell in it. During the holidays, you can always put a snowman or snowflake as one of the designs.

As long as you have creativity, you know that your wall candle holder will never be outdated anymore. A few changes can make a huge difference to the once simple candleholder that you have. There is no doubt that you can try out whatever design you can think of as long as you know that it will work for the candleholder. You can even ask some of your friends on how the candleholder looks so that you can still make the necessary modifications before you do the same design to the others. Aside from having fun, you can surely save a lot of money because instead of buying the décor, you are the one making it. Not everyone can do what you do so make the most out of it.

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How do you get dry melted candle wax out of glass candle holders?

Anybody know a good way?? Its a big glass candle holder and all it is now is a dry pool of hard wax at the bottom :S

You can either heat it up, and soften the wax, or put it in the freezer to shrink the wax.

Two cautions about about heating up the wax.
First, wax is very flammable. If you put it in a pot on the stove, be very careful. And have some salt or towels or something nearby in case the wax catches on fire. It's risky to try to extinguish burning wax by putting water on it - you end up splashing the burning wax all over the place. You need to smother a wax fire.
Second, don't use a pan that you like very much. As the wax melts, it's going to float all over the pan, and stick to the inside. Then, you'll have a clean candlestick and a wax-covered pan.

I'd start with the freezer method. If that doesn't work, I'd put the candlestick in an old coffee can and pour boiling water over it.

All of this assumes, of course, that you can't just dig the wax out with a knife.