Decorating with Candles 4
Candles may also become the feature of the cellophane decoration shown in Drawing 19. For this, dry sphagnum moss is mounded on a piece of cardboard cut to desired size and shape, usually an oblong about the size of the candle board.
First the candles are held in the desired position. Very often I pack the moss around them. Then I remove them while I tie on the moss and reset them later. They can always be firmed in place with a little more moss. After this is tied, it is covered with white crepe paper rather than with tissue which tears easily. The crepe paper is fastened together on the bottom with Scotch tape.
Candles are then set in place, and wired cellophane pompons and artificial balls inserted in the moss. Pompons are made by gathering, through the center, cellophane pieces of the desired size as shown in Drawing 19. The 12-inch length of No. 18 or No. 20 wire is twisted so that two hairpin-like pieces extend out the back. These are thrust through the paper into the moss to hold the pompons in place. This decoration, icy in appearance, is effective where heavy greens and dark colors are not.
In Drawing 21 another decoration is shown. This was made with crepe paper, moss base, a white brush tree at one side, cellophane pompons around the edge and white reindeer across the top. Before the reindeer were placed, the crepe paper on the top was covered with absorbent cotton or glass wool to simulate snow. Whitened twigs behind the trees add beauty and height. It may be necessary to fasten a small wire around one leg of each reindeer to hold it in place.
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