Cocktail Glass Candle Holders

You know those tall and elegant wood candle sticks that people always use for upcycling projects? I have always wanted one. Thing is, I don't know where to find them. I know there is a street in Manila where you can good antiques but I haven't had a chance to go yet. But I had an urgent need to redecorate (you will see why later) so I decided to improvise for now.

 I bought some cheap cocktail glasses:

The small ones are P30 ($0.70) and the bigger ones are P44 ($1)

Turn the bigger ones upside down and then glue the smaller ones on top and you get these:

Still not the candlesticks I wanted, but they will do. Add some vase fillers and small white candles and...

I have 2 beautiful decorative candles for less than P200 ($4)!

Now, let's go back to my urgent need to decorate. You see, the corner work area in our living room I prepared more than a year ago...

...has turned into this:

corner eyesore.

Notice those 2 white bottles? Those are the vodka bottles I posted last week. I already finished spray painting them white... but they are still a work in progress (as soon as I figure out what else to do with them). The 2 speakers are part of our home theater system, and the rest are Andrea's toys and other stuff around our house that found their way there. And can you find the laptop in all that mess? Right... it's right there under the table, on the chair.

To start, I cleared all the junk out of the table. Except for the speakers. My husband told me they have to stay there *sigh*. I took a cream lacy table runner (again, from my grandmother), a big white vase that my mother-in-law bought years ago, and my candle holders... put it all together and...

Better.

And if you're wondering about the work area concept? Well... this is really silly but I later found out that I can't get a good broadband signal from this corner of our house so turning this into a work area didn't really work.

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