When I take a little time to think outside of the box, I find many ways to reuse items around the house. One of my favourite ideas is to use a tea cup as a candle holder. I often look for pretty tea cups at a second hand shops for this reason.
Ways to use a tea cup
- Tea-light candle
- Dinner table centrepiece — place 3 or 4 in a row in the middle of the table
- Light up a path for a special event or for Christmas
- Use as a vase for small flowers
Isn’t that a little bit of happiness!
Do you have items you reuse around the home? I’d love to hear your ideas so I can try them too!
Other Links
Decorating with Secondhand Items
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Super sweet idea. I like it. Now to find beautiful tea cups!
Yes! Do! It’s so fun and it looks adorable!
That’s cute! I’ve never seen that before.
Such a simple idea hey!
That’s such a lovely idea!
It looks so pretty in real life too!
I do this all the time
I also love glass juice bottles with the labels off to make vases for pretty little posies xo
YES! I saw that the other day with little bottles and wondered where they were from. Juice bottles! Thanks VM x
Thank you! … now I have an excellent excuse to buy the gorgeous tea cups I see in second hand shops : )
Perfect!
So pretty!
You could even take them to a candle maker to fill them with wax – I have a favourite at the markets and she fills my cute jars and containers with yummy soy wax candles.
xx
That’s a fantastic idea Michelle!
This is a fun idea. A friend used to use them too. To increase stability, she would glue the cups down first.
Thanks Ms Kate: that’s a great idea.
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