Christmas decorations with your hands: balloons + wax candle =

And to continue the theme of our Christmas decorations and beautiful things just for New Year's home production I want to offer you another very interesting option. This time it will candlesticks. She has not had time to do, but found I hasten to share with you.

So, this time I really liked here such candlesticks made with balloons, paraffin or wax, and your patience:

I have not had time to test this technique, so I take pictures from the source. So, you will need balloons and wax or paraffin. The author of these candlesticks took a special wax in blocks, we can also chop any white candle.

What do we have to do?

1. Take balls, fill them with water to the desired size.

2. Melt wax (paraffin wax) in the pan in a water bath. That is, crumble it into a small saucepan and put it into the pot a little more, filled with water. The water should reach the same level up to which the wax in a small saucepan.

3. Once the wax is melted, slowly lower the ball back and dip it three times. After that, put it on a flat surface covered with baking paper (parchment), that at the bottom of the candlestick turned flat.

Before you drop the ball into the wax, make sure there is no air. If the air is still hit, try to drop the ball into the wax only to the level to which it reaches the water. Water regulates the temperature inside the balloon and prevents it to burst from contact with hot wax. If you miss, the ball burst. Also, try to do so that the ball is not in contact with the hot walls of the pan.

When the first layers were dried up again three times dip bowl and put it back on the tray. And so is repeated until, until the candle will not be the desired thickness. The thinner the wall of the candlesticks, the more brightly it glows.

4. Code wax has cooled, carefully cut balls pour water from them and remove from the finished candlestick. The final touch - heat the baking tray and gently round off the edges of it.

As the candle made of wax, there is only a small scented candles can be placed. And so that they are not melted bottom pour to pre soy, buckwheat or peas.

Wendy (by source) warns that the first time can not get better and do everything slowly and carefully. And I, in turn, promise to try to make yourself such candlesticks and ready to put the results in a Sunday blog. If you are, of course, it will be interesting how this idea is real in the performance.