tea lights – Francois et Moi https://francoisetmoi.com Making a Handmade Modern Home one DIY project at a time. Mon, 16 May 2016 18:17:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/francoisetmoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Untitled-2-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 tea lights – Francois et Moi https://francoisetmoi.com 32 32 76357554 Fast and Festive Pumpkin Votives https://francoisetmoi.com/diy/fast-festive-pumpkin-votives/ https://francoisetmoi.com/diy/fast-festive-pumpkin-votives/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2015 02:58:57 +0000 http://francoisetmoi.com/?p=12470 Yikes. Thanksgiving is in two days! Need a last minute table centerpiece? These fast and festive pumpkin votives will have your table dressed and ready to go in 20 minutes. I started by giving my little pumpkins a coat of spray paint in Montana, Color Petrol. I love Montana spray paints because they’re highly pigmented resulting in good coverage and pure, vibrant coloring. (This is NOT a sponsored post–I’m just sharing my experience as I spray paint a ton over here!) Skip the spray paint step if you’re crunched for time. The pumpkins also look gorge in their natural orange or white coloring!After letting the pumpkins dry, I carved out the spots for the votives and lit ’em up! Fast and easy, folks! Find more tidbits on how to rock this project on Homedit. Follow  

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]]> https://francoisetmoi.com/diy/fast-festive-pumpkin-votives/feed/ 4 12470 Mind Your Beeswax: How to Make Beeswax Tea Lights https://francoisetmoi.com/diy/mind-your-beeswax-how-to-make-beeswax-tea-lights/ https://francoisetmoi.com/diy/mind-your-beeswax-how-to-make-beeswax-tea-lights/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:01:17 +0000 http://francoisetmoi.com/?p=7572 Happy Monday! Over the weekend I pulled out the bag of raw beeswax we collected from the honey harvest, cleaned it, melted it down and made some beeswax tea lights out of it. We brought home a pretty blue lantern from Italy earlier this year, and I thought tea lights would be the perfect way to light it up. I’ve been reading up quite a bit lately on how to make beeswax candles and learned a lot of fun factoids along the way. Did you know that beeswax candles, in addition to being non-toxic and clean burning, they also purify your air (!!) by producing negative ions that clean the air of odors and allergens. How cool is that?                                             Beeswax also has an inherently clean and pleasant aroma, so I decided not to add any additional scents to it. I felt it wasn’t necessary, but it sounds like you can add essential oils to the wax once it’s cleaned and melted if you’d like. Materials List: raw beeswax from a hive or pre-cleaned beeswax heatsafe pouring container (Thank you Scott & Caitlyn for loaning yours to […]

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