Candles 1

Heat a couple of waxine-lights, plunge just a few times a piece embroidery-silk ; roll the candle, when it is still warm, round on a flat surface, as if you roll fimo. Let the candle cool off and cut it the lenght you want. Take care with warm weather, they could melt !

Candles 2

A second method, much easier: buy cheap waxine-lights. Pour out the wick and use this as a candle. Ready ! (The left over waxine you could use to make a real big candle for your real house with a shoe-lace as a wick)

Punge out many (about 24) christmas-bells from red or white silky blotting-paper. (You can punge out 8 at the same time) Punge out 1 bell from normal white paper. Cut the bells precise in two. And now glueing . Mark 6 points at the half bell. With a very thin instrument (a needle f.i.) put glue 3 points on the first bell; lay the next bell on top of it and glue the other 3 points on this one. Go on like this till you've glued all 24 bells together. Ofcourse you'll start and end with a white one. If the bell is dry, gently stretch it out and round and glue the two white ones.

The explanation was in Poppenhuizen en Miniaturen (a Dutch magazine) some years ago.

For this pieces I used little pieces Licopodium, pieces fern from my garden, pieces from dried flowers, Icelands moss etc. In a bag pot-pourri are lots of usable pieces. Put everything in a little ball of self-harding clay. For the red-berry-twigs I used a thin green iron-wire. Smear this with quick-drying glue and pull through a bowl with little tiny red fimo-balls.

Finished !