Skull Pillar Candle Holders - {Tutorial}

Hi all! I decided that my foyer table needed more of a Halloween influence rather than the fall motif I have going throughout the entire house. So, I was browsing around the internet for something awesome and I found these:

The only problem was, they're $30 and, well,... I think not!

So, I used my crafty resources and decided to fashion something. I had 3 of these bad boys laying around from when I went through a candle pillar phase (don't ask).

I went down to Michaels and picked up 3 paper mache skulls, a 1/4 inch dowel, and black gloss spray paint (40% off coupon!).

Then, I cut two of the pillar candle holders in half and then got to spray painting! Woo hoo!

(That is not some satanic symbol on the floor in red! It's another project I'm working on! Eek! That looks really bad!)

Then, I drilled a hole down each candle stick that I cut in half with a 1/4 inch drill bit.

Then, I measured my 1/4 inch dowel to see how long it needed to be, shoved it in the bottom piece of each candle stick, and secured it with some wood glue and I spray painted the dowels black. After that, I positioned each skull to where I wanted them to sit on the dowels and then drilled holes through each.

After the dowels were dry, I slipped on each skull and affixed the top half off the candle stick to the top of the skulls and secured that with wood glue as well. To finish off this project, I wrapped some white candles with spooky Halloween scrapbook paper and some scrapbook embellishments and Voila! Sca-a-a-a-ry!

There you have it! Some spooky Halloween pillar candle holders! Love it!


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I hope you're having an awesome Monday!