Cinnamon (and pine cone) wrapped candles.

So I'm sure if you frequent Pinterest at all, (and come on, you so do) you've seen those cinnamon wrapped candles floating around on there. I thought they were cute and would be a nice touch for a thanksgiving centerpiece. They were pretty easy to make, I'm just cheap and refused to pay for more than 1 bag of cinnamon sticks sooo when I started to run out for the second candle I had to improvise:

Yes, I did have to shove pine cones in there to plug up the empty space. Did you know hot glue guns don't work on candles? I did not. and now I do. haha, so the second candle is pretty sloppy looking, buuuut I think in the scheme of things it works well. here's a quick how to!

Here's what you'll need:

• Candles - I used 2 warm vanilla scented candles from the dollar store. 
• Cinnamon sticks - found these for about 4 dollars at Walmart.
• Rubber bands
• Twine, burlap, raffia - basically something to tie around the candles to hide the rubber band/decorate.

First things first, place the rubber band around the candles, then cut or break the cinnamon sticks to fit the size of your candle. After that, begin placing the cinnamon stick pieces inside the rubber band until no more can fit. You'll probably want to hide the rubber band so that's where some twine or burlap comes in. All I had was raffia, which is a little harder to make look neat, and if I could justify spending more money I would have gotten a taller candle for a little more contrast, but all in all I think they turned out pretty cute! Another fast and easy craft. Hope ya'll enjoy! :)

Mason jar lumineries.

So I did these a while ago and I just thought they were so cute and a fun and quick way to decorate for fall. (Mommyhood generally leaves you pressed for time.) I didn't document the whole process, but it was so simple, hopefully a detailed explanation will suffice haha.

Here's what I used:

• Three mason jars - I bought mine for about $1.49 a piece at Michael's.
• Burlap garland or trim.
• Raffia or twine - whichever you prefer. I just so happened to have Raffia on hand so that's what I went with.
• Some sort of foliage - Dollar Tree had packs of detached leaves that worked PERFECTLY for this.
• Candles - tea lights or whatever you can get to fit inside
• Hot glue gun - for, you know, the gluing and stuff.
• accessories (optional) - I used two of the mason jars as actual lumineries and filled one with cinnamon scented mini pine cones.

Okay, so here's the basic rundown of how to put these together. First, I removed the inside lids from all the jars. Then I measured how much burlap to cut by wrapping it around the mason jar until it came together, I allowed for a little extra room because cutting burlap can sometimes be tricky. Next, I glued the pieces together, and repeated this process for another jar. Then I placed a leaf in the front of each of the jars and tied them in place with a strand of raffia. The next step was just to place a tea light candle inside. For the remaining jar I just filled it with pine cones and tied a raffia bow under the top rim. and VOILA!! prettyness! Like I said, super easy and fast. Hope ya'll enjoy! :)