Cases of Table Decorations With Glass Cylinders

The glass cylinder is a mainstay of tabletop decor. Use it to float some flowers in plain water or to home a small tropical fish. Fill it with the season’s harvest from your pantry. Dump the leftover holiday decorations in it and find some real use out of them. Layer colored sweets at a pattern. Or, fill out the see-through containers using little toys. Maintain a set in various sizes on hand for last-minute table decor.

Tried, True and Terrific

A flowering stalk of orchid flowers submerged in a glass cylinder is consistently an arresting table deck. Place any flower in the cylinder — tulips, bird-of-paradise and calla lilies are lovely, also. Anchor the stem in plain glass seams should youn’t need the blossom to float. Step a standing flower to reach a few inches beneath the surface of the glass and add a floating candle to your water for the evening event. The distance between the surface of the flower and the candle keeps the centerpiece from looking jumbled or crowded and shows both candle and blossom to advantage.

Seasonal Sensation

Pile a column of one type of fruit at a tall glass cylinder for an uncommon tabletop piece you’re able to deconstruct and eat later. A tube of green or red apples, red pomegranates, combined lemons and limes, tangerines or blood glucose — even little decorative gourds — takes five minutes to construct and lasts for many events. Expand your decor borders with scavenged pine cones — silvered and gilded or left natural — combined with walnuts in their shells. Gold walnuts are sparkly and joyous.

Holiday Specials

Last minute vacation get-togethers are simple to set up when you fill a few low cylinders with pretty tree decorations. That is it — just set the ornaments, without holders, into the glass containers. A group of holly with red berries circling the foundation of one cylinder dresses up a luncheon. A row of bauble-filled cylinders down the buffet table gets a finishing touch with a green garland wound through them. Or get crafty with two cylinders of different circumferences. Ensure that you is at least an inch smaller in diameter compared to the larger of both. Slide the little one within the massive cylinder and fill the distance in between them with fake snow and a few sprigs of evergreen. Place a pillar candle within the smaller cylinder.

Shabby Chic-Style Shower Centerpiece

One or more lacy cylinders creates a focal point on your own boho or even shabby-but-stylish baby or wedding tables. Cut a bit of lace fabric the exact height of a cylinder that is open at the bottom and top. Glue the lace to the cylinder and add some cut-out rosettes from lacy rosette fabric; a glue gun is the easiest way to stick them in position. After the lace is dry, slip the open, lace-covered cylinder over a cylinder that is smaller or clear jar that holds a tea light. The light will flicker, safely and prettily, through the lace, casting interesting patterns over the table. A cluster of those lace cylinders in various heights makes a larger centerpiece for a big table or buffet when you place the lace columns on a mirror tray.

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