Candles and candle jar lids

(Picture of our house all lined with candles)

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Good Morning Sweet Praying Friends,

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Praying your day is starting off well.

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I am happy to report we are feeling much better

 in my household,  just some lingering cough

 for both of us.  Hubby was able to go back

 to work yesterday,  and Dee has had no more

 side pain since going to see the Dr. appt.....

 guess he scared those pains away!! lol

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We also were able to go to church and Sunday

School,  and then back Sunday Evening for our

Lovely Lovely Christmas Contata.  It was definitely

the Highlight of our Christmas Season.

It had our childrens choir,  teen choir and adult

choir,  some drama,  a manger scene with the

children as the animals,  so cute! and the

handbell choir,  a ballerina, and angels and dancers

with the twirly ribbons, and even snow at the end!

It was just Great!

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It was about and hr. and a half,  and just so

enjoyable!  And Bonnie they sang our favorite

song "Mary, did you know??",  it was so

beautiful,  and also one of the young Mom's

sang "Breathe of Heaven",  she has an amazing

voice- It was just so beautiful!

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Above is a pic of the house with our candlelights!! 

I think it actually looks much better up close and

personal!  In the windows where you see all the light,

believe it or not that is just light from our Christmas

tree.  We turned out all the lights and took the pic

from that angle thinking maybe you could see the

tree,  but it looks like we had all the lights on.

Wierd!  I turned out all the garage lights but

the garage door opener light would not go out!

Just after we finally gave up and took the pic

then it went out!!  lol

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We took the header pic using a tripod because

they were coming out looking pretty funny.

This is the first one I took!

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Looks like we have one legged people dancing around or

in some places it looks like Seahorses!  This was not

taken with a tripod and it is very hard to hold the camera

steady for a time exposure type shot!  Obviously!

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We are enjoying our candles,  don't know if anyone

else is,  but we are!!  lol

It is definitely a more subtle festivity,  but does look

really nice!

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Here is a few tips for those of you who might want

to try it!

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We used some empty yankee candle jars,

or any kind of jar candle container, or any

type of jar really that you can fit a candle

into.  The snow looking ingredient is

none other than....................

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Good ole epsom salt.  This is a 4 pd.container ,  hubby bought

 it so don't know exactly,  think it might be less expensive at

wally world or at a Drug store even,  it was less at CVS

cause I looked online cause hubby said he thought it was

around $8.00 or something and I said oh my Gosh,

 why did you buy it then!

All he could remember was that it was

more than he thought it would be!! lol

It was like $3.29 or something at CVS.

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Once Christmas is over I will be putting

it in a ziploc bag for next year!

Hey, it's clean snow!!  lol

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I heard about this from Bonnie at one designing

Woman blog,  she had seen it elsewhere on

someone elses blog.  I also saw in a magazine

where if you want frosted looking candles

you paint on some modge podge and then

roll the candles in epsom salt.  Looks very

pretty,  maybe next year I will give that a

try too!

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Remember the lid from the yankee candle jar,

how sturdy and nice they are,  I said to hubby

these are so nice there should be some sort

of thing to use them for,  I'll have to think on

that awhile and see if I can come up with some

thing.  I love to find a new purpose for something.

And He said,  well,  if  we took that plastic

ring off you could probably use it as a tea

light holder,  and he said bring me the

needle nose pliers,  and this is what he

did..................

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Actually,  I did this myself after he showed me how.

You pull the plastic away from the jar with your

finger,  then slip the needle nose pliers between the

glass and the plastic, and pull up and it will pop

right off,  make sure you have a firm grip on the

pliers or it will just slip off the plastic.

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Then  you get this.... there are no threads on the

jar lid,  so it makes a perfect tea light holder.

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Looks nice, doesn't it,  and you could put a lil

snow in there too,  if you want.  I didn't cause

I wanted the candles to be down lower

 than the ones in the jars. Cause I rotated them

with a jar then a top then a jar etc.

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If  I was going to use them in the house I would

probably put snow in them cause the yankee

candle emblem is embedded in the glass top

and you might see it a little bit,  not much tho.

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I also kept the plastic rings in a ziploc bag

cause I like to use the jars for other purposes,

that's why I had quite a few already.

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Don't know if you noticed the jars in the background

the first time you saw this picture.

They have soap, cotton balls,  and q-tips in them,

(just in case you have trouble figuring out what

something is)

But you could put candy or buttons or coffee, tea,

sugar or anything in them really.  Cause once you

clean them out really well,  there is no scent leftover.

So they are handy to have around.

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If you can think of any other uses for them,

leave a comment and tell me......love to hear

those great ideas!

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Well,  gotta get busy girls!

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Till next time!

And

Merry Christmas!

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Hugs and Blessings,

Nellie

P.S.  And our thanks to Yankee Candle,  the gift that just keeps on giving!!  lol