Eggshell Candles

Saw this idea online and it's so so cute (and easy!) that I had to make some as little Easter gifts. They are a little fragile (obviously, since they are eggshells!), but I like the jagged edges; they'll be fun adorable gifts or table decorations.





To make: carefully break open eggs leaving as much intact as you can (some of mine are pretty much just halves and even that small of an opening worked); remove the egg, rinse the shell, let it air dry.

Cut small lengths of candle wicks and stick them in the bottom of each eggshell with a little soft wax.

Create a double-boiler by putting an inch of water in a saucepan, place a smaller glass jar or measuring cup (or an empty tin can) in the saucepan. Add candle wax along with a chunk of broken crayon in whatever color you want to the glass jar and melt over low heat.

Once it's melted carefully pour into the broken egg shells. The wicks will probably fall over, I held them in place by resting toothpicks next to each wick until the candle wax set up.

Once the wax is solid trim the wicks to about 1/4" or so. Done! What a cute addition to your Easter decorations - put them in egg cups or small bowls on the table, or at each place setting; or put them in empty egg cartons to give as gifts (if you can bear to part with them haha, I might not be gifting these after all!).

I made them with white eggshells and colored candlewax, but dyeing the eggshells would also be nice.

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Easter Flower Ideas

Here's a couple last minute flower arrangements to take with you as a hostess gift today, or to decorate your Easter table.

The first one is a grocery store bundle of yellow flowers. My initial thought was to put them in a baggie of water, insert them in a mason jar, and then fill in around the baggie with jelly beans. (The correct way to do that would be to put the flowers in a jar and then set it into a larger jar, filling the space between the jars that stays dry with jelly beans or whatever. I don't have 2 jars that fit like that so I was winging it with the baggie idea...) So yeah, that didn't work - I was careful but water still got on the jelly beans and that made a mess. So plan B: cut them all to fit, put them in a mason jar, tie a pretty ribbon around the neck of jar. To make it a little more special I hot glued a plastic Easter egg onto a skewer and tucked that into the flowers. Then because I never know when to quit, I hot glued another egg onto the end of one ribbon :)

The second one is a little more time consuming but really cute. The inspiration came from here. I bought 2 bunches of tulips and 3 bunches of carrots with the stems on. Put a rubber band around the vase or container you are using - I used a big mason jar. Tuck clean carrots under the rubber band to hold them place (around the outside of the container), trimming the bottoms to fit. I entertained the idea to leave the carrot tops on but that looked super out of control and messy so I trimmed them to about an inch off the carrot top. Tie a pretty ribbon over top of the rubber band.

Note I did not peel my carrots (didn't seem necessary and they'll last longer I think - just brush them off so they are clean) and left more of the tulip leaves attached so it has a little more "messier" natural look then the inspiration picture. I also found that turning a couple of the carrots upside down helped them lay better against the jar.

wet jelly beans = a mess