Decorating with Candles 1
Candles are popular throughout the year, but at no other season do we find such varied sizes and shapes as at Christmas. Decorative in themselves, they sometime present problems as to holders. For very large ones, angel candles or other irregular forms, mirrors, red glass plates or old china plates, painted red, make pleasing bases. Small pieces of evergreens may be clustered around them or whitened twigs and berries tied to them with a bow kept at safe distance from the flame. (Drawing 17)
A wooden base, of the flower-arrangement type, makes an excellent stand. Melted wax or modeling clay will hold the candle in place or a nail may even be driven through the bottom to serve as a spike on which to impale the candle.
The candle bowl is easy to arrange and a safe way to burn a candle. (Drawing 17, top) Any clear glass bowl, fish aquarium or battery jar, will serve as container. Fasten the candle, which should not extend beyond the top of the bowl, in the center of the bottom with melted wax or modeling clay. Then drop around the candle, in the bowl, small pieces of greens and for brightness a few red and silver balls.
The effect is surprising and the heat of the candle will not crack the bowl. This is a safe way to burn candles in the window, on the hall table where there is apt to be a draft, or on the center of the dining table.
This same idea may be carried out in miniature for individual favors by using baby food jars and large-size birthday-cake candles. To make a steady base for these, drop a teaspoonful of fairly wet plaster of Paris in the bottom. The candle and tiny greens may be worked in with careful fingers or tweezers and a few bead-like balls or red berries added.
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