Please join me today in welcoming the fabulous Kim! You might remember her from this feature I did on her and her blog last year. Well, today she's back with a fabulous holiday tutorial for you!
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Hi Everyone! My name is Kim and I blog over at The Kim Six Fix. I mostly write about DIY home improvement and home decorating projects, but I also have 3 kids so I frequently throw in my favorite kid-friendly recipes and craft projects.
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Hi Everyone! My name is Kim and I blog over at The Kim Six Fix. I mostly write about DIY home improvement and home decorating projects, but I also have 3 kids so I frequently throw in my favorite kid-friendly recipes and craft projects.
In my spare time I'm addicted to iced coffee, Pinterest and bad reality TV (which I don't blog about but do talk about on Facebook and Twitter.) You can also find me on Instagram and Google+.
I want to thank Heather so much for giving me this chance to share a super fast, easy and inexpensive project tutorial for the holidays!
I LOVE decorating for holidays and I am always trying to find vases and candlesticks that can add height
and interest to vignettes and mantle arrangements. I came across
these candlesticks during a google search and I thought they would be
perfect:
I love how they are tall and thin, (perfect for a mantle), they vary in height, and the silver stems anchor them and add interest (instead of a regular hurricane vase which is completely transparent.)
See? Perfect! Right?
Wellllll...
The problem was that (1) they were only available in Europe and (2) they were 68 Euros (or about $90!) There goes that idea. Now I was on a mission to knock them off.
First stop? The dollar store where I picked up these two candlesticks and tall vases for $4.
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hSXokCDx-Zk/UoB3Zo6AHLI/AAAAAAAAHTA/Ysxxm2xU_ms/s640/dollar+store+candlesticks.jpg)
The shape was right, but now I needed to make the stems look like they were silverplate. Enter metallic spray paint:
A couple coats later and things were looking really promising:
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OqP7HvVgPKM/UoB3ZrBZfhI/AAAAAAAAHTM/gMXD2YJLqZs/s400/after+painting.jpg)
To attach the stems to the vases, I inverted them and used super glue to stick them together.
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z1WYBkiceQA/UoB3a10cxSI/AAAAAAAAHTc/a97Q4W33RKc/s640/letting+glue+dry.jpg)
And once they were dry, they were good to go!
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_DcZcAx-grc/UoB3ZxTEXlI/AAAAAAAAHTI/9fdgZjTz__A/s640/drying+glue.jpg)
For a Christmas display I decided to add some cheap plastic ornaments:
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PgyzN4ygXN0/UoB3Z7zXazI/AAAAAAAAHTU/JV_srh6ssRo/s640/candlesticks.jpg)
I love how the finish came out:
![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HQK8AzNaHyA/UoB3dvmAW_I/AAAAAAAAHUc/n0p__m5Vurw/s640/faux+silver+plate.jpg)
Not bad for $2 each:
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Thanks so, so much for visiting the blog today & sharing this creative tutorial with us, Kim! I'm so happy to have had you here! I hope everyone visits your blog to check out some of your other great posts!
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Thanks so, so much for visiting the blog today & sharing this creative tutorial with us, Kim! I'm so happy to have had you here! I hope everyone visits your blog to check out some of your other great posts!
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Thanks for visiting my blog!
Thanks so much for sharing my tutorial Heather Lynne!
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