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Autumn Inspiration

By LIDY | Published: SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Autumn Inspiration is everywhere! I bought so many apples last week, that what we didn’t eat, turn into delicious treatsor pile into bowls around the house, I made floating candles with. So easy. So gorgeous. The weather is still nice enough to have a meal outside, bundle up in a cozy sweater if you must, and enjoy dinner out in your garden. Make a few of these apple candle holders, and float in an old bucket or ironstone bowl.   Since school has started at the little school across the street from our home, I put little red apples around the ivy filled urns on our front steps too.  They actually stay good for quite a while in cooler weather, unless the birds find them after a few weeks.

I bought that handy little apple cutter below, at our neighborhood Ace Hardware, it’s very sharp, you just insert it into an apple and sort of twist it until it cuts a perfect hollow for a votive candle.

A handy tip: try floating your apples in the water before you cut a hole for the candles. Some of my apples just wanted to float sideways, no matter how nicely I talked to them, which is fine for decoration, but obviously doesn’t work when you want to add a candle to light.  The apple votives look great just lined up on your dining room table too, like the green ones above, if you don’t want to float them.