During the winter holidays I was brainstorming ways to decorate my Christmas table. So I decided to take a walk up and down the isles of Dollar tree looking for inspirations. Well I came across the battery operated candles and a light bulb went off. I thought to myself these are awesome. No need to worry about the wax getting all over my delicate table clothes. My favorite thought was that I didn’t need to worry about my kids blowing it out, touching it or getting burnt. It was a win, win situation.

So for a $1.25 I picked up 2 candles and set to let the creative juices flow.

After all the candles are plain white.  They do come in different colors but I thought white is a color I can compliment with many colors.

Originally, I thought of stamping on the candle. But I thought I don’t want to store many different decorated holiday or seasonal candles.  That is when the idea came! Why not decorate and change the candle decor according to the holiday or season?  After all, I do like to have fresh new decor each year.

The candles are a perfect size for the table and last for 120 hours.  No more a variety of candles for each holiday or season.  These candles are also perfect for parties or weddings. Many vendors have banned wax candles as they drip onto the table linen and it is difficult to clean.  But as you can see they are VERY plain, but that does not mean you can not make it beautiful.

So now I am set to change it to a Valentine theme by pulling out some designer series paper. I chose to pull out the Painted with Love Specialty Designer Paper.  The thing I liked about this paper is the glitter/shine.  After all who doesn’t like some shine? I was thinking of adding to twine and a stamped image, but it would take away the beauty of the paper.  To be honest I couldn’t decide which design was my favorite. So here are two different designs I made.  I hope this will help your creativity  flow or just copy one of these ideas. In the end this candle cost me $1.85 to purchase and decorate.  I have to say that is a pretty good deal.

N.B-One sheet of 12X12 DSP paper makes 4 bands. Bands were cut 9.5″X 2.5″