Make a Christmas Centerpiece with Candles

To create a festive mood for your home during the busy holiday season, make a Christmas centerpiece with candles. Making your own Christmas decorations is a wonderful way to add a personal touch to your holiday décor.
With the many different colors, sizes, and fragrances of candles available, you're sure to find something that suits your tastes.

How to Make a Christmas Centerpiece with Candles 
When making a Christmas centerpiece with candles, you're limited only by your imagination. Here are a few design ideas you can use as the basis for your project:
Stack candles next to tall vases filled with assorted Christmas ball ornaments. Glittery ornaments in silver, gold, red, or green look especially pretty with this type of Christmas centerpiece.
As an alternative, you could fill the vases with jingle bells.
Combine candles with pinecones and red velvet bows for a traditional, yet very festive, centerpiece.
Decorate the candles by stringing beads onto wire and wrapping the wire around the base of the candle. Sprinkle artificial snow on a large tray, then arrange the candles as desired.
Spread fresh cranberries on a silver serving tray, then place an arrangement of white votive candles in the middle for a simple and elegant centerpiece.
Use faux greenery to make candle rings for pillar candles. Arrange the candles with framed photos of loved ones celebrating Christmas.
Glue candy canes around clean tin cans to use as candle holders for your Christmas centerpiece. Surround them with holiday greenery for a festive look.
Alternate candles in frosted glass votive holders with stacks of miniature wrapped gifts to make an interesting Christmas centerpiece.
Surround a bowl of floating candles with Christmas tinsel.
Make ribbon bows with faux poinsettias in the center. Attach the bows to your favorite candle holders for an instant Christmas centerpiece.
Do you have more candle holders than candles? One interesting twist on the Christmas centerpiece with candles theme is to use your favorite candlesticks and candle holders as display bases for Christmas ornaments.

Tips for Designing a Pretty Centerpiece 
Making a centerpiece doesn't have to be a difficult task, even if you don't normally consider yourself a "crafty" sort of person. Here are a few tips to help you get started on your project:
When creating your centerpiece arrangement, keep in mind that an odd number of elements generally is more pleasing to the eye than an even number. So, instead of two or four candles, choose three or five to use in your centerpiece.
If your centerpiece will be placed in the middle of a room, make sure it looks nice from all sides. Save the designs with an obvious "front" for the corner areas.
If you're on a tight budget, check out your local dollar store for materials to make a Christmas centerpiece with candles. In addition to finding budget priced votive, tea light, taper, and pillar candles, you can also find very cheap silk flowers, pinecones, and seasonal elements to add to your holiday décor projects.
Don't use scented candles in areas where food will be served. You don't want the fragrance from the burning candles to interfere with your guests' enjoyment of their meal.
If you're hosting an event that will be attended by small children, use flameless candles to make your Christmas centerpiece. Flameless candles provide the ambience of candle light without the safety risks associated with an open flame.

For more tips on creating a special Christmas centerpiece, check out the following helpful articles from LoveToKnow Candles: 
Candle Centerpiece Ideas
Floating Candle Centerpieces
How to Design and Decorate with Candles
Decorating with Faux Holiday Greens and Flameless Candles

You may also wish to visit LoveToKnow Christmas to learn more about getting your home ready for the holidays.

Recommendations for use Richly Scented Candles

Rigaud candles have strong scenting powers because the fragrance concentration is higher than that of an eau de toilette.

The ideal location for your Rigaud candle is at half-height, for optimum diffusion of the fragrance into the room.

Do not let your Rigaud candle burn too long. Two to three hours is sufficient for getting the full enjoyment of its fragrance. The soft wax liquefies rapidly and permits optimum diffusion of the fragrance it contains.

Avoid placing the candle in a draft, since the wax could melt unevenly and the wick could move from off center.

Never leave a lighted candle unattended or near an inflammable surface. Remember to extinguish it when you leave the house and keep it out of reach of children and animals.

To extinguish your Rigaud candle, do not blow on it; simply cover it with its snuffer cap so that the wick does not smoke. This elegant gesture extinguishes the flame and avoids excessive combustion.

To avoid black smoke, regularly trim and clean the wick before lighting it. It should never be longer than 5 mm.

After solidification of the wax, leave the snuffer cap on your Rigaud candle to preserve all the richness of the fragrance contained in the wax.

In addition to the subtle elegance Rigaud candles lend to your dinners and receptions, they also eliminate all pervasive, unpleasant traces of tobacco smoke.

The Rigaud fragrance spray contains an alcohol-based composition that can be vaporized simply by pressing the pump at a distance of approximately one meter from textiles such as drapes, cushions, curtains, rugs and carpets. The living space will gradually be impregnated with the fragrance.

The principle of Rigaud diffusers is that of subtly scenting the living space via a system of natural capillarity. The plant stalks absorb the scented solution and subtly diffuse it. Turn the stalks from time to time to renew the diffusion process.

Place your Rigaud diffuser near a window or in a draft to beautify the atmosphere with a delicate fragrance that seems to waft in from a faraway place.

We advise you to place your Rigaud diffuser in smaller spaces around the house – corridors, entryway, dressing rooms – to get the full effect of the rich fragrance it diffuses.

Always keep the Rigaud candle in a vertical position, and preferably in its original container, so that the soft wax does not lose its shape, especially if kept in a warm environment.

For a bedroom with a feminine, romantic décor, discover the soft sweetness of Angiris, the tenderness of Lilas or the freshness of Santifolia.

The exotic warmth of Bois Précieux and the strong personality of Cuir de Kyara befit a modern, elegant living room with a masculine bent.

To lighten your living rooms with a touch of freshness, give in to the bracing scent of Tournesol. It evokes Spring and Summer in a country house.

The dark, masculine color of the Cyprès candle sets off the larger volumes of a home. And it is especially effective for removing tobacco odors.

Choose the more richly colored fragrances, like Cythère or Cariacou, to enliven your holiday meals. Their scents have a touch of exoticism and escape.

Light your jasmine candles as the sun is going down in summertime to rediscover the natural scent of jasmine petals on a summer evening.

Can Rigaud fragrances be associated? Of course! Blend the generosity of Gardénia with the magic of Jardin d’Orient and infuse charm into your living room or a bedroom draped with taffetas and silks.

Associate two Rigaud fragrances. Escape to far-off places with a blend of Cariacou and Bois Précieux, ideal in an interior decorated with furniture in exotic woods.

In your country house, associate the strong character of Cyprès with the green notes of Tournesol and enliven the atmosphere of your interior or the ambiance of your garden terrace.

With its silver snuffer cap, zebra slip case, and satin ribbon, the Rigaud candle is a true decorator object that brings life and warmth into a house.