Table centrepieces

For my centrepieces, I wanted something Christmassy, simple, romantic and yet affective.

I decided that you can't get more Christmassy than candles so I figured these would have to fit into my design. 

As you know, I love a freebie too and in winter I love to collect weather cones to use as free decorations at Christmas. I have a load of weather cones  in my decoration box from a couple of Christmases ago that I painted the edges of with glitter so I thought I could incorporate these into my centrepieces.

I went to a wedding fayre and noticed that the big glass goldfish bowls were a popular choice of centrepiece design. I went to ASDA and purchased 4 large goldfish bowl candle holders at £8 each and 2 smaller ones at £3 each. 

I then bought 4 large winter-spice scented red candles and 2 smaller ones. This came to £54 in total spent at ASDA.

I then came home and began playing around with ideas. And this is what I came up with.....

I put some battery operated fairy lights into the glass bowl first, then the candle on top of the battery box which gave it some height. Then I placed the weather-cones around the candle. I found a few small red and gold baubles to place randomly within the weather-cones and then placed some sprigs of berries that I had in my craft box around the candle.

And as you can see, they also look great in the dark too. 

With the smaller ones I won't use quite so much decoration as they are going on the top table. I am either going to strewn holly (another freebie!) around the candles or I will use mini weather-cones. I won't bother with the fairy lights as I think candlelight on the top table will look good enough. I have also managed to find mirrors to go under the smaller centrepieces to reflect the light from them. At £1.49p each they were a bargain from The Range. I am yet to find any for my large bowls but I continue to look.

This is by no means the finished product when it comes to the smaller table decorations. This was just me playing around with ideas and checking they fit on the mirrors.

Working progress shall we say :)