Today I have a project for you that has made me smile at how easy home decor can be. If you find just the right items to decorate, that is! This is a keeper - I'm not letting go of this one so I won't be using it as a Hostess gift, sorry! I had to take the photos of this very carefully - that's a mirror on the middle section there and the last thing you want is a reflection of me holding the camera and frowning while I found the right angle!
I picked this tealight candle holder up some time ago, at a clearance sale (yep the bargain hunter strikes again!). The original price on the box was $24.99 (this was from a homeware/kitchen store where I love to browse and drool, not from a discount store, where I'm usually found...). How much did I pay for it? $3. I nearly fainted when I saw the price. Sadly it was the last one they had, or I'd have bought lots of them. What a bargain!
It came without the patterned paper and the gorgeous new Ruffled Ribbon of course, those are the decorating touches I added. How long did it take me to add them? About 2 minutes, including cutting the paper to the right size. Seriously! OK, maybe 3 minutes, as I tied the ribbon a couple of times before I was happy. But I've gotten pretty good at tying bows over the last 4 years so it was no big deal. And the best part? I just tied the ribbon on, so that is easy to switch out, and the Cheerful Treat designer series paper (which I love) is simply stuck on with Dotto, behind the mirror. So I can remove it, use it for something else, and replace it with whatever paper is my next favourite. I love that!
This has been really useful too - after I decorated it, we had a 3 hour power cut on what was possibly the coldest night we've had this winter. At first, it was funny, and fun to finish our dinner by candlelight from my beautiful tealight candle holder. But after 3 hours, we were not laughing anymore as whatever heat had been in our house disappeared!
Hope you're comfortably warm wherever you are. Have a wonderful weekend!
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