A Simple Project

I am often inspired by Swedish homes and their simplicity. (Though frequently I may not be simple.) Even though it is a couple of weeks away, I am sharing it now, because I am working on other things.

This is a simple advent "wreath".

In a slope bowl 8.5" and  $7.50 from Crate and Barrel are four of their almost two dollar candles, their shorter white ones, with some silver pinecones. (This is not an endorsement of CB.)

I bought pinecones, because we don't have pinecones here.

I normally would have candles, but I left them out of the refrigerator in the potting shed, so they melted in the summer. 

First, I cut a piece of floral foam to the size that would fit nicely in the bowl.

Then I decided where the holes would go on the foam so there would be enough space to fit a pinecone in the middle.

Then I pushed the candles into the foam carefully, so as not to break them, and then removed them.

Next, I used my hot glue gun to put a nickel sized dot at the bottom of the bowl to secure foam.

Then I put hot glue in the holes and placed the four candles.

My daughter than placed fifteen pinecones of various sizes to cover the foam; so, the number of pinecones depends on the size of the pinecones and the size of the bowl.

Then we tied a piece of twine around the third week's candle.

I think this could be done to make a menorah in a different shaped dish, though I might use something other than menorah candles, because they melt really fast and are very short by the last day. 

I also think it could be done colorfully or traditionally.

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Thank you,
Kerryanne