The heat and humidity returned on the Summer Solstice back in June, so it was primarily an indoor-day for me, although I did get my Vitamin D on for about a half hour when the breeze was still cool. But alas, I started to roast so I went into the craft room and things got a little sparkly.
My mom continues to purge her house of things and is giving me the right of first refusal on everything she's getting rid of, so I snagged a couple of big white pillar candles from the thrift shop pile. My first idea was to stick rhinestones on one of them but.....nah. Instead, I broke out the bag of cool sequins, beads and pins.
My measuring skills are sad, at best, so I ended up eyeballing the design, so the rows aren't perfectly lined up. This was the point at which I thought this particular candle was done. It was missing something, but what?
Ah! That's MUCH better!!
Wasn't sure what to do with the taller one, then I remember the pretty, fibrous paper stashed away and decided to Mod Podge pieces of it onto the candle.
I know, what a mess, right?
All done!
These are votives that I decorated with wax pens, specially made for drawing on candles, and also pinned sequins on the right.
