Making Your Own Centerpieces?

The web site http://www.abcglassware.com/ has a wide variety of candle holders, vases, and jars that will help you keep your costs per centerpiece low.

Garlands and Vases

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Consider using these for your centerpieces. These eco-chic bottles are reused soda bottles and can be used as single or two flower vases. There's also a six foot garland of small bottles that you can add a small flower to and run it across a window, garden trellis or patio umbrella. It has loops at each end for easy verticalor horizontal hanging. Piccolo Vases, 2 3/4" diam., 6 3/8" h. Bottle Garlands, 1 1/4" diam., 2 3/8" h. Garlands have 12 vases each, piccolo vases six ofr $29., each garland $29. or two for $49.

Be Creative With Color

Glassybaby is physically a small, colored, glass cup, candleholder, or vase. But the light of a candle coming through generates more; it gives warmth to a cold day, a calm token of peace in the busy world. It can be used to drink out of or as a vase. Use glassybabies alone or in groups. Their web site is http://www.glassybaby.com/. Glassybaby has a rental program so if you'd like to use them at a big event (like your wedding or shower) check their web site. Each glassybaby is $40, but rentals run about $5. They are handblown glass and come in a wide variety of colors.