I hope you have had a great week! We are gearing up for a long weekend as we celebrate the Canadian Thanksgiving. Yes, I know it’s only mid-October, but it provides us a few more weeks to prepare for Christmas says her who will probably be shopping on Dec 24th. ha.
Like every year, we will be visiting family and having a delicious feast, or should I say feasts as we will be visiting both my parents and my mother in law. They each celebrate Thanksgiving in their own way, but full of love and laughter all the same.
Today I wanted to share some centrepieces I made using more traditional colours and a $10 bouquet from the grocery store. I wanted to incorporate a candle into the mix, and would suggest using a tall candle so to avoid any “accidents” of the toasty kind. Unfortunately, I did not have any tall candles on hand.
I hollowed out a pumpkin and placed a jar inside. Even though I had put some wax at the bottom of the jar to set the candle in place, it would not stay put. I had a little light bulb moment and put two elastic bands around the jar to hold the candle in place, which also helped keep the flowers from moving around.
pumpkin and avoid the growth of mold, spray a mixture
of one tablespoon of bleach and water inside the pumpkin.
snapdragons(?), which I wasn’t too sure would look good in the
arrangement, but I think the contrast looks really pretty.
arrangement to gift or keep to yourself!
see you tonight at The Inspiration Gallery.
Beautiful!
By the way, I love your blog…especially the layout. It’s so simple, yet elegant and beautiful!
Very pretty…..enjoy your holiday celebrations!!
Happy Thanksgiving Lucy! I am off cooking duty for this holiday (mine are Christmas and Easter ) your mini pumpkins look great and I have made something similar without the candle for hostess gift, may need to try the candle jar. I really enjoy our date for thanksgiving, it doesn’t feel so smashed into Christmas with decorating and shopping.
Love these, Lucy. Happy Thanksgiving. xo Laura
Simple and sweet….love the elastic band idea!
Very pretty, Lucy! Love them!
Lucy, these are adorable and thanks for the tip to prolong pumpkins. I never knew that. I always buy flowers from our market. They last for two weeks most times and have a great selection, no to mention the prices are great.
Cynthia
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Lets try that again. Beautiful arrangement. Thanks for the tips on the bleach and the rubber bands. I have used tape to make a similar grid before. If you had some of that squishy green floral foam you could just shove it down into the jar and it would hold both the candle and the flower stems. However, I realize that most people don’t have that around the house.
Can one also cut an oasis and stick it in the pumpkin..push the candle in…and then arrange the flowers around that…it should hold…and then water it as well…??? 😀 (Lesley-Anne..Ireland)
The purple flowers are stock, not snapdragons. You could put Oasis in a jar or in a plastic container and secure the candle in the Oasis. I don’t suggest putting the Oasis directly into the pumpkin; there is too much chance for leakage and mold production.
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