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Centerpieces for Fall & Winter
Ring around the Seasons
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Your classy cake plates can hold a centerpiece that includes a seasonal dried flower wreath, a glass lamp shade and a candle.
THE BASICS: A glass cake plate (you probably already have one in your cupboard) starts this off. Place a 12-inch wreath form on top of the cake plate. (We used a delicate dried honeysuckle vine, but you could try grapevine or even preserved ivy.) Place sprigs of dried or preserved hydrangea blossoms in five or six places around the wreath, leaving space for other materials. You can glue these in, because they'll remain for both seasons. Find a clear glass lamp shade--the kind often used with ceiling fans--and place the large opening facing up in the center of the cake plate, inside the wreath.
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FALL: Dried flowers such as gold yarrow, brown wood roses, burgundy celosia and bronzed bits of strawflowers and grasses gently tuck into the wreath. You can add texture with small, rust-colored copper beech leaves. Then, place a 2x4-inch rust-colored (or other fall hue) candle inside the glass shade.
WINTER: Remove fall flowers, leaving the hydrangea intact. Insert small pieces of real or dried evergreens, white winterberries, green hops, red pepperberries, and frosted beads in white or red. Replace the candle with a red one.
