Himmeli Candleholders
by
Julia Fabens
(IC: blogger)
Hi! I wanted to share these fairly simple Himmeli candleholders that I made last week that might be just the thing for your Thanksgiving table. I had some mini fishbowls (is that what these are? Some seriously mini fish…) so I decided to spruce them up a bit with a cool “copper” Himmeli pattern. The catch? Forget tubing and use cocktail straws!
Materials:
Thanks for your help, Mr. Brass Lobster. My other loyal sidekick, Charlie, was doing a SUPER good job of eating pieces of cocktail straw.
To make another pentagon, I threaded the wire back through the closest side of the adjacent pentagon and the connecting side of the new pentagon. That sentence is basically useless; here is a picture.
Which gave me this
I repeated that step to get another pentagon.
Aaaaand one more. Once I had a row of four pentagons, I added one additional piece of cocktail straw. This became the magical fifth pentagon.
I pulled the wire back through the far side of the first pentagon I made, like so:
And then I added two more straws and threaded the wire in at point A and out at point B which gave me this. I SWEAR this sounds way more complicated than it is.
At this point I put the fishbowl into the basket I made to make sure it would fit. Phew, it did. I added a piece of straw to the wire and started connecting the points, just looping the wire forming the point as I went.
This is what I had once all of the points were connected.
I did not tie it off here though. Instead I slightly loosened the whole thing, took the bowl out and spray painted the straws copper. It sounded easier than spraying the straws in advance. Once it was dry, I put the bowl back in and tied off the last point.
Pop a candle in and watch the cool shadows!
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Published November 24th, 2014 4:10 PM
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MyDecor8Craft on May 09, 2017
This is absolutely stunning! You made the simple clear glass bowl into an amazing piece. Thanks for sharing such a great idea. Loved it!
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