Many people cannot imagine New Year's holidays without fragrant candles. Of course, you can buy them in the store, but you can get down to business with imagination - make candles with your own hands. Candles are able to create a magical atmosphere, under their flicker you want to make wishes and believe in their fulfillment. In addition, such crafts can be donated to relatives.
You can decorate the house with ready-made candles. For example, create a wreath of green spruce branches, decorate with rowan branches and nuts, and put a blue or red candle in the center. And with small candles you can decorate a festive ikebana. In addition, bright candles look beautiful inside vases or decorative jars.
You can create your own candles with a citrus scent. To do this, you only need a white paraffin candle + an unnecessary kindling candle, a wide glass, dried orange slices and a hair dryer.
An unnecessary candle is broken into pieces and melted in a water bath, a whole candle is placed in a glass and covered with slices. Fill the space with wax and wait for solidification. When the wax hardens, the glass is placed in a container of hot water - this will make it easier to pull the craft out of the glass. If there is a lot of excess wax around the candle and no orange slices are visible, then the layer can be melted with a hairdryer.
You can take an unnecessary round aquarium and put shells, sea stones, beads on the bottom. Pour in water and place on it small flat candle-tablets, which are easy to find on sale.
A vintage candlestick itself can serve as a decoration for your home. And to make old candlesticks look more elegant, you can use spray paints. Although the raid of time looks charming in its own way and looks very appropriate on New Year's Eve.
