Keep it classy while keeping the bugs at bay with this wine bottle citronella candle tutorial from Jennifer at When Pigs Fly. More: Wine Bottle Light @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Recycled Wine Bottle Torch @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Wine Bottle Cozy @Craftzine.com blog
I just love these tiny bottlecap candles from Craftaholics Anonymous. What a fun way to reuse both the caps and the stubs of some broken crayons. I could see these scattered about a buffet table or grouped in a pattern to create a design of flickering lights.
Here’s a great starting project for the rugged, outdoorsy, he-man type who is secretly candle-curious. The fact that it’s made with shotgun shells makes up for any girliness that might otherwise accrue to candle-crafting. Even if you use strawberry-scented wax. If you’re still feeling emasculated, try casting some beer bottle caps into the wax and/or mounting the finished candles on empty cans of SKOAL. From Instructables user Sunbanks.
Have you ever seen a trompe l’oeil image of a cube?
A friend of mine recently finished a deck remodel, whose highlight (literally) is a transparent corrugated roof that diffuses sunlight in a delightful way. This inspired me to find some way to continue that glow after sunset, in the form of a lantern illuminated by tea light candles.
There are many colors and styles of corrugated roofing available, and whole 8-foot sheets (Sequentia brand) are $23 at my local lumberyard — that’s enough material for up to 10 lanterns. The kind my friend used for the deck is fiberglass-reinforced plastic (FRP), which diffracts light with a sparkly halo. After some feverish experimenting with cut-off scraps, I eventually came up with the graceful lantern design shown here.
Tom Michaels says, “I just finished making some of these and thought it was worthy of a craftzine mention. They are great fun and you can be as creative as you like which is fun fun fun.” Link. More: Craftbits candle making section – Link.
