December 5th

** Welcome to my little Christmas blog! Here you'll find something Christmassy every single day until the big celebration on 25th of December! Some of the things I have created myself and some have been made by you, my dearest readers!

Thank you and Happiest Holidays!**

DECEMBER 5th

Sometimes the most beautiful things are just the simplest to create, and all you need to make them is already around you - nothing needs to be bought. That's the case with the perfect candle holder created by fantastic Pam from Hortensia. I couldn't have agreed more when she said that candles and lights play a huge part in her Christmas decorations. That's no surprise that these little candle holders are this pretty as Pam creates most beautiful things, and you can see even them more closely here.

You'll need:

glass tumbler or jar with as straight sides as possible
double-sided tape
anything you like for decoration:
beads
ribbons
glitter
paper of fabric flowers
greenery (especially Rosemary smells wonderful it when gently warms up)
and my version has old lace


When you have chosen your glass or jar, attach double-sided tape around the top and the bottom. Then lay the beads onto you palm. If you lay them on paper, it can get stuck into the tape, and if you use a plate for instance, beads may (will) roll everywhere. Roll the glass along the beads and they'll stick into the tape. Press firmly just to make sure.


Go around the whole glass, until the tape is covered with beads
and you're done!

Once you have light in your candle, be careful, never leave it unattended or around small children. With more delicate decorations such as paper flowers or just to be extra careful you can always use led candles.


I made my set of four advent candle holders with a bit of hand crocheted lace. I just measured the glasses, cut long enough pieces of lace and taped them into glass. I placed a piece of double-sided tape on one end of the lace first, placed it to glass, and then did the same with the another end. I put the lace ends slightly one on the other. If the idea of cutting handmade lace hurts you (it did me at first) you can use industrial-made, but I made these glasses to be used on every advent from now. Today is the second so light to two candles.

Thank you so much Pam!

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Today's the winner-drawing time for Viv's beautiful holly-corsage! Thank you so much for all of you who commented! There were many red&green-fans like myself, but white, cold, silver, purple and pink and blue had friends too. All sound equally lovely!


And since today's beautiful candle holders were by Pam, it was just perfect to pick up the winner from one of Hortensia-creations! I wrote all your names into pieces of paper (and numbered them from 1-13), put them into Pam's pretty fabric pot, and one was picked...


.. And the winner is: ANNE ! Congratulations! I will contact you soon and pass your details to Viv, who will ship the corsage to you!

Happy 5th December!

Yours,
Mia

P.S. A little remainder still: my other, the little snowman giveaway is still going on, so if you liked the scarf and haven't commented yet, please do so now! And an extra note still: all the beaded candle holder-pictures were taken by Pam, thank you so much!