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Candleholders Tips on candleholders. From "Home Made Easy" episode DHME-163

Host Stephanie Lydecker shares tips on some new and different ways you can display candles.

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	Figure A
	Figure B
	Figure C

Candleholders

• A simple and elegant idea is to place different-sized pillar candles on a cake dish. Adorn the candles with a vine (figure A) and add flowers.

• Use a variety of sizes of terra-cotta flowerpots to create an inexpensive candle grouping (figure B).

  Tip: To keep taper candles in place and prevent their falling over, place a wax button in the bottom of each candleholder.

• Why not use fruits as candleholders? Use a tealight candle as a guide to trace a circle on an orange or apple. Cut the area open, place the tealight candle inside and surround it with whole cloves (figure C).

• Another idea is to cut the back off of an artichoke, wedge it open and insert a votive candle.

• Finally, a simple technique is to put a little water in clear votive candleholders and add a few drops of food coloring; then place the candle in the holder.