Decorate on the Cheap With Everyday Items
New uses for wineglasses, picture frames, ribbon...
Use Wineglass as Candleholder
Original purpose: Toasting to health and good cheer.
Aha! use: Casting romantic shadows at the dinner table. Place a votive candle in a thick-walled glass, anchored in a bed of sand or
small pebbles (it makes wax cleanup a snap).
Reward: Lighting that actually goes with your table-ware, unlike those circa-1984 brass candlesticks.
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