Fruit, with its rich colours, shapely forms, and natural fragrance, gives you endless
scope to create luscious centerpieces.
Nature has already done most
of the creative work for you, and you just have to add a bit of imagination and ingenuity to create amazing centerpieces.
Pieces of fresh fruit make great candle holders. Carve a hole in the centre, and insert a tealight or taper candle.
Or cut melons in half, scoop out the contents, add water and candles.
Special iron and glass centerpieces make it easy to combine fruit and candles, (see pictures below). There's a central vase for the fruit, surrounded by glass containers for the candles. |
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Rosy Rings Spicy Apple Pillar Candle
Embedded with apple slices, cinnamon, and bay leaves, this 6½" pillar candle not only looks beautiful, but also makes your house smell great.
The blend of paraffin wax, beeswax, and soy wax, produces a long-lasting candle, with superior burning qualities.
This candle ships for Free with Super Saver Shipping. |
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Hollow Glass Fruit and Pillar Candle Holder
Remove the top. Fill the glass container with your favorite fresh fruit or fruit candies.
Replace the top. Insert a 3" pillar candle, and you have a colorful, authentic centerpiece for a kitchen table.
Size: 13" high. Also available in a taller, 18-inch height. |
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Wrought Iron Candle Holder with Central Vase
Graceful wrought iron tendrils mimic the organic shape of a climbing vine.
The 5 slender stems each culminate in a holder with a decorative candle glass.
Fill the vase in the centre with fruit to complete the natural look of this centerpiece.
Size: 13.5"high. |
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Reminiscent of long, lazy days, warm friendships, and summer fruits, you can enjoy these desserts, (visually, at least), whatever the weather.
Arrange 3 of these fruit dessert candles on a tray, decorate with colourful
napkins, and other dessert accessories, and your centerpiece is complete. |
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Claire Burke Applejack & Peel Deluxe Botanical Candle
Embedded with apple slices and cinnamon sticks, each square, handpoured candle is a fragrant centerpiece, coordinating well with almost any type of dècor.
Decorated with a ribbon and matching tag, this makes a great gift, with that personal touch. The
recipient will think of you, everytime they light the candle, and the rich, comforting smell of baked apples, cinnamon, and citrus, fills their home.
Size: 3.75" x 3.75" x 7". |
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| Can't you just picture this candied fruit tealight candle holder at a kitchen tea or ladies' breakfast? Surrounded with fresh fruit and other delicious eats, it will be a welcome addition to any sun-dappled morning event you have with your friends. |
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October Hill Decorative Fruit Salad Candle
A delicious combination of waxy berries and other yummy candle fruits, you'll be tempted to stick a dessert spoon into it, and have a taste.
This decorative, 3" tall candle has various uses:
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A playful party center piece. Add novelty, and vibrant color, to any party table.
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An original hostess gift. Your hostess gets thousands of the same type of gifts.
Give her something she's never received before.
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A one-of-a-kind kitchen decoration.
Place this on your kitchen counter, and instantly liven up this vital space in your home.
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Display a rectangular, marbled candle with strawberries-and-cream colouring with fresh strawberries and flowers. We used carnations, but you can use any white flowers, or flowers matching the pink-and-strawberry-red theme.
You'll need:
A strawberry, pink and white rectangular candle
A white, rectangular plate, at least 6cm (2.4") longer, and wider, than the candle
Fresh strawberries
Flowers
Place the candle into the white plate. Arrange strawberries on the plate, around the candle, and stick a flower head into each corner. |
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Martini Gel Candle Gift Set ,
from the Fun in the Sun Collection.
Fun, yet sophisticated, these candles will remind you what summer is all about, (whatever the season)!
Conveniently gift-boxed, any friend of yours will be delighted to receive these.
Or spoil yourself. Celebrate summer, with these colourful candles.
Novel, (and instant), centrepieces for the cocktail hour, (and beyond), it will take you a very short time to arrange these on a festive table.
Each set of 4 contains Martini gel candles with a coordinating fruit slice candle and plate.
Scents: strawberry, lemon, lime, orange.
Each candle burns ± 5 hours. |
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You'll need:
A cylinder candle with an apple decoupage design
A wicker basket
Paper napkins, with an apple design, (optional)
Fresh apples
Place a few paper napkins into the wicker basket with
the edges hanging slightly over the sides. (Or just use
the wicker basket as it is). Place the candle into the center
of the basket. Surround the candle with the apples. Here are the instructions for the decoupage technique used on the candle. |
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Use a scented or unscented candle for this centerpiece, your choice.
We used a 4x6" (10x15cm) cylinder candle with orange and yellow chunks.
You'll need:
A large orange chunk cylinder candle.
2 dried orange slices.
2 fresh oranges.
String (or raffia, ribbons, leather thong, etc.)
Thread the string through the orange slices. Tie it around the candle, so that one orange slice is on the front of the candle and the other on the opposite side. (So that your guest's on either side of the table have the same view of the candle). Slice the orange through four ways, without cutting through the bottom. This leaves 8 attached wedges. Open the wedges up gently to form petal shapes. Place on either side of the candle on 2 plates. |
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Let your friends admire your handiwork, while you tempt them with tea, coffee, cakes and biscuits.
You'll need:
A decorative tin container candle with a fruit design. Scented or unscented, you choose. (I filled an old Danish lemon biscuit tin with wax).
Pieces of fresh fruit matching the tin design.
Place your tin candle in a central spot on the table. Arrange a few pieces of the fresh fruit next to it. Echo this centerpiece theme in the paper napkins, the cakes you serve or other decorative elements on your table. (Selectively, not every single thing has to match). This is also great for outdoors, as the tin makes a perfect hurricane shield.
Tip: these tin container candles become ferociously hot when they've been burning for some hours. Don't place it on a cake stand or anything else which might shatter easily. Tiles, dinner plates, metal trays and wooden surfaces are suitable. |
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A variation of the old candle & wine holder centerpiece. Traditionally, a very soft candle is used, leaving artistic drips on the bottle and sometimes (oops!) on the table.
You'll need:
A wine bottle (I used a decorative bottle of Spanish recycled glass, with a raised grape design).
A taper candle.
A plate or tile to display the bottle on.
Fresh grapes, green and black.
Stick the taper into the bottle. Put the bottle onto the tile/plate. Casually arrange some grapes around the bottle. |
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Fresh apples make luscious, (although perishable, and fleeting) candle holders.
Insert tea light candles instead of tapers, if you like. A tealight carver
gives you a neat and precise hole.
You'll need:
2 large apples (get the biggest ones you can find)
An ivory taper candle
Leaves (from apples or flowers)
A plate, to display the centerpiece on
A fruit candle cutter (an apple-corer makes a good candle carver tool, especially for taper candles)
Lemon juice
Place the leaves in water and hydrate them well. This delays the inevitable droop which happens after a few hours. Make a straight hole about 2,5 cms (1") deep in the apple, using the fruit candle corer. Place the apple onto the plate. Wedge the candle firmly into the apple. Stick some leaves in around the base of the candle.
Slice the second apple into thin pieces. Sprinkle with lemon juice. This slows down the discolouration process, and the apple pieces will take longer to turn brown.
Arrange them around the base of the central apple. |
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Enjoy the colours and scents of summer fruits, whatever the season.
Arrange a group of chunky, citrus-coloured pillar candles on a wax candle plate embedded with dried citrus slices.
The lemon, orange and grapefruit slices are partially embedded, with the exposed bits subtly giving off their gorgeous fragrance.
We used various flat-topped and pointed cylinder candles with the following sizes: 10x10cm (4x4"), 8.5x19cm (3.4x7.6"), 8.5x16cm (3.4x6.4"), and 6x20cm (2.4x8"). |
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