Burning Bright
July 14, 2010 Crafts, Green Crafting, Home Decor, Projects 1 CommentBy Recycled Crafts Contributor, Anitra from the blog “Coffee Pot People”.
Jar candles are great, aren’t they? The flame is contained, as is the melted wax, and most of them are scented, which I love. Eventually, though, if you burn them often, you end up with a stash of the empty jars and their lids.
I was looking at just such a stash the other day, and got an idea.
If you stacked them, and glued them together, you’d have pretty cool candlesticks, which seemed poetically fitting, given their origins.
Here are your instructions:
If the lid has a plastic ring around it, slip the blade of a table knife under the edge and give the knife a twist. It may take a little working at, but the rings come off pretty easily.
Make sure the lids are clean. Stack them, experimenting to get a pleasing “structure”. I put my top lid on upside down so there’d be a cavity to put a candle in. You may prefer the flat side to be up, and use a larger, pillar candle. Another option is to insert colorful items in the lids before you glue the lids together. In the first photo shown, you can see the red beads I put in one lid.
Glue them together, using a good glue for glass. (E6000 is always my choice, and no, I don’t work for that company!) Check every now and then as the glue is setting up, to make sure the lids don’t slide out of position.
Put a candle in or on your stack, and light it.
Want something even simpler? Take several lids, put them down the center of your picnic table, place a tea light in each, and light.







































