An unusual candlestick with your own hands

Candlesticks from a tree

Ecological essence and warm, homely and cozy appearance.

From a piece logged

You will need:

• log or thick branch with bare bark;


• saw;


• glass beaker;


• drill.

Cut a small log or a branch with a saw,to make a circle of a tree 5-7 cm thick. Do not cut off the entire outer part - leave both the bark and irregularities. Now drill a hole in the center of your workpiece - it should be the same diameter as the glass. The workpiece will look like a ring. And then just put a glass in it, and in a glass - any candle.

From clothes pegs

You will need:

• wooden unpainted clothes pegs (at least 15-18 pcs.);


• the base of a tin can (for example, from condensed milk);


• natural tourniquet.

Cut the jar with a knife for the tin, separating the bottom withsides approximately 1.5 cm. This will be the basis of the candlestick. Now fasten the clothespins on it - do not open them, just plant the end opposite to the one that usually attaches the clothes to the ropes, to the bottom of the can. Do this with all the clothespins, placing them close to each other.

Then tie the harness - so that he got intoa slot on each board (the one in which there is already an iron wire for the mechanism of the clothespin itself). Put the inside of the candle. This candlestick is suitable only for low "floating" candles - a high flame can spread to wooden clothespins and set them on fire.

Candlesticks from glass

Beautiful, bright and safe - the flame is covered with glass.

Candlestick-Aquarium

You will need:

• large glassware with high walls - a wide glass, or, in fact, a small round aquarium;


• filler for the bottom: coffee beans, pebble stones, decorative pebbles (glass);


• decorations in the style that you choose.

Fill a glass or aquarium with a base - pebbles, glass, grains, - and addornaments. If your candlestick is made in a marine style, it will be shells and, for example, a ceramic fish figurine; if you want to create a cozy atmosphere, add cinnamon sticks and dried mugs of lemon, and so on - do not limit your imagination. At the base, install a candle or candles and light them.

Candlestick-bottle and candlestick-pot

You will need:

• a bottle or a can;


• decor for them - lace, paint different colors, chains, ribbons, whatever you like.

This type of candlestick is very popular andis diverse, you can experiment with it for a long time. In the bottle you can simply put a high candle, fixing it in the neck, and you can hang the same bottle on four chains, wrapping the middle or neck, and make an old-fashioned lantern for the garden.

In the jar, the candle is put inside, and the wallsare decorated in a variety of ways - first of all, the way light is transformed due to external decoration is taken into account. For example, if you paint a jar, it will turn out to be colored, stained glass, like in old cathedrals.

You can make a "space" candlestick, coloring itthe whole jar, including the bottom, with blue paint with splashes of silver and yellow, and then erasing part of the paint in two or three places. You can wrap a jar with a lacy napkin - then the light will be mysterious and very wintery in the resulting lace silhouette. You can paste on the glass itself, carved silhouette of someone or something, for example, a forest landscape.

Author: Masha Larina