Frosty glitter jam jar candle holders

I wanted to have some cheap home made candle holders at my Christmas wedding and began frantically collecting jam jars. I envisaged something really Christmassy and winter wonderlandy but I wasn't sure what to do with them so was planning on just putting some ribbon around the tops and having them lined up down the aisle. However, this looked a bit too cheap and naff so I went in search of something better.
Here is what I came up with....

Take some plain old jam jars with their labels removed....

Cover the jar in PVA glue completely...

and then sprinkle the glue covered jar with white/snow glitter (bought from ebay)...

And this is what you end up with....

You can then experiment with designs using masking tape to tape off stripes on the jar... 

 

or you could even use a heart stencil....

add a candle in your jar and hey presto...a snowy/wintery candle holder for next to nothing!

DIY dress hangers

I was perusing Pinterest the other day and I saw a pin about 10 things a bride wished she had done in hindsight on her wedding day. One of them was to have decent hangers for her dresses as she had used plastic ones and it ended up looking like she'd bought her dress from Walmart.

I started having a look on ebay and found that they were really expensive (it seems anything with 'bridal' or 'wedding' in the title means it's going to be overpriced). So I decided (once again) to make my own hangers.
Here's how I did it.

Take a wooden coat hanger...

Print off 'Bride' written in a font of your choice from the computer and used masking tape to tape it in place...

Etch over the writing with a biro so that it indents into the wood of the hanger...

Go over the etched font with a permanent marker carefully and then place a diamanté stud over the dot of the 'i'...

 

Tie a white ribbon about 1" thick around the hook of the hanger...

 

Then tie in a bow...

Glue the bow to the wood of the hanger with a glue gun...

Trim off the excess ribbon from the end of the bow...

Then to finish, glue a diamanté button on the front of the bow for that bridal finish...

Then do exactly the same process for your bridesmaids' hangers. I chose to do mine in red to match the dresses...

Just need one button on the right hanger to finish :)

I had the hangers already so that was free. The ribbon I got in a material shop for 80p each and the diamaté buttons were £2.99 + £1.75p postage on ebay. So nice and cheap for all three hangers and something personal for the big day :)