Diwali Lighting - Festive Lighting

Diwali is a time for Rangoli, Flower Decoration and Floating candles. Since I was in the DIY mode, I collected all my left over candles and wax from used candles and using my silicone ice tray, i created some lovely floating candles.

The basic idea behind floating candle is that the base should be slightly smaller. And my ice tray mould was just perfect for that.



My floating candles are looking lovely with the marigold flowers!

I had seen lots of mason jar lanterns over the internet and wanted to make some for this Diwali. And after Neo was born last July, we had good collection of mason jars.

So all the mason jars which are otherwise thrown away, were collected, cleaned and were ready to be given a second life. And wow, the result was just amazing. I am sure the Mason Jar lanterns will be hanging in my balcony for some more time!


DIY Lanterns ready to be used


Mason Jar Lanterns hanging in my balcony


Some more Mason Jar Lanterns hanging in my balcony

Colorful, bright and happy votive holders just perfect for any festive season. The votives have been decorated using various techniques like painting, decoupage etc.



In the above image, the two votive holders have been designed by me. In the first one, I have used silver shiny yarn and wrapped the glass votive holder with the yarn using glue. In the other one, I have used silver spray paint and a lace strip. I covered the votive holder with the lace and then did spray painting all over. You can see the lovely lace pattern left behind, where the glass was covered with it.

These days candles and tealight have become very popular in Diwali celebration, however the age old traditional way of lighting homes on Diwali day using diya is still a favorite. So you will find a mix of diya and candles for Diwali Decoration.

I also bought diyas in various shapes and decorated them using acrylic colors and some gold and silver spray paint. Some I just painted using acrylic color, and used glitter 3d outlines to decorate them further.

In the photo above, I have used wood base below the diya. After fixing the diya to the wood base, I used gold and silver spray paints.

Since I was in the recycle, reuse mode for this Diwali, I tried to do the best use of old used items at home. I decorate wine bottles, used glass jars, old glass vases and also my old microwave glass tray using glass painting.

Glass painting is easy and fun as you can keep your designs below the plates or inside the vases and just do freehand outline drawing and fill them with the appropriate colors. I was having some old glass plates with beautiful leaf patterns and using various glass colors and glitter outliner, I decorated them. My personal favorite is the pink glass plate.

BTW, do not throw away old microwave glass trays, they could be reused. With the painting done on the tray, I used the tray for placing candles and diyas and it did give extra sparkle to the light rays!!