{"id":2534,"date":"2012-11-10T20:40:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T20:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2012-11-10T20:40:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T20:40:18","slug":"mosaic-lights-and-candles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/mosaic-lights-and-candles\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosaic lights and candles&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year&#8230;<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"mosaic candle tealights\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mosaic-candle-tealights.jpg\" alt=\"mosaic tea lights, mosaic candle holder\" width=\"448\" height=\"299\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Time for candles, light in the darkness, snuggling in, warm and cosy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\"><em> Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.<\/em>\u00a0 ~Chinese Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\"><em> We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>~Evelyn Dunbar <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\"><em>There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle. ~<\/em> Robert Alden<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><em>People are like stained-glass windows.\u00a0 They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.\u00a0<\/em> ~Elisabeth K\u00fcbler-Ross<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2537 aligncenter\" title=\"mosaic tealights\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mosaic-tealights.jpg\" alt=\"mosaic canldes and tealights\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mosaic-tealights.jpg 640w, https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mosaic-tealights-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Love making these little mosaic candle holders, made from recycled stained glass (find a local stained glass artists who can donate offcuts), and old jam jars too. Some instructions <a title=\"make mosaic teal light and candle holder\" href=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/2011\/childrens-mosaic-tea-light-holder\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (just substitute stained glass for nuggets). Transform the <em>throw <\/em>away into something very comforting to <em>give<\/em> away or light up your home this winter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am running a mosaic taster at Wimbledon Art Studio&#8217;s where we will be making these on 15th December &#8211; come along if you are local!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year&#8230; Time for candles, light in the darkness, snuggling in, warm and cosy. Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.\u00a0 ~Chinese Proverb We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ~Evelyn Dunbar There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,20,23,18,13,31,10],"tags":[140,141],"class_list":["post-2534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-interiors","category-artful-living","category-make-mosaics-with-children","category-mosaic-loving","category-soulful-life","category-soulful-quotes","category-uncategorized","tag-candles","tag-mosaic-tea-light-holder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}