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Hanging Beaded Votive Candleholder Learn how to create a beautifully beaded hanging votive candleholder. From "Craft Lab" episode DCLB-121

Guest Marty Stevens-Heebner joins host Jennifer Perkins to create a hanging votive candleholder.

	Guest Marty Stevens-Heebner shows you how to create this unique hanging beaded votive candleholder.
	Figure A
	Figure B

Project designed by Marty Stevens-Heebner.

Materials:

20-gauge wire
24-gauge wire
beads
round-nosed pliers
needle-nosed pliers
wire cutters
glass votive candleholder
tea light candle

Hanging Beaded Votive Candleholder

1. Grasp one end of the 20-gauge wire and, with your hands, wrap it three times around the top of the votive candleholder (figure A). Cut the wire with the wire cutters and wrap it two times around the candleholder near the top. Using the needle-nosed pliers and your fingertips, wind the remaining wire ends around one another to form a spiral pattern. Trim any excess wire, if necessary, with the wire cutters and tuck the ends underneath the spiral to hide them.

2. Cut a 35" piece from the 20-gauge wire. Fold the wire in half. About 2" below this fold, twist the wire around itself three to four times. Make a hook with the 2" portion above the twisted wire by bending it around the top of your finger.

3. Wind one end of the wire from step 2 two to three times around one side of the circular holder from step 1. Repeat on the other side with the remaining end of the wire.

4. Cut a 12" piece from the 24-gauge wire. Wrap one end around the twisted wire around the base of the hook at the top. Slide two to three beads all the way onto the wire.

5. String a fourth bead about two thirds of the way down the wire. Fold both sides of the wire around this bead. Grasp the wire firmly between your thumb and forefinger and twist the wire together (figure B).

6. After about 1/4"-1/2" of twisting, slide another small bead onto the wire, stopping about 1/2" from the twisted wire. Fold the wire around this bead and begin twisting until it meets the other twisted wire, then continue twisting the wires together. Repeat step 5 to create a second offshoot, if desired. Pull the beads added in step 4 up the wire and twist them into the wire as well.

7. Continue twisting beads onto the wire until it's twisted all the way back to the end attached beneath the hook.

8. Repeat steps 4 through 7 and then cut a 12" piece of 24-guage wire and wrap it around the circular wire holder from step 1. Repeat steps 4 through 7 around the holder until it's fully decorated with beads and twisted wire.

9. Light a candle inside and hang it somewhere romantic.

RESOURCES :

Tealight Candleholder
Website: www.ikea.com

Bells and Coin Replicas
Fire Mountain Gems
Website: www.firemountaingems.com

Aluminum and Copper Wire
Home Depot
Website: www.homedepot.com

GUESTS :

Marty Stevens-Heebner
Half the Sky
Website: www.half-the-sky.com