With warm weather on the horizon you may be thinking about crafty ways to decorate the table at your beach house.... or decorate the table in your house as though you were at the beach. Maybe add some mood pieces to your outdoor sitting area for the balmy nights to come. Well, one of the most versatile ways to do this is with seashell candles. It's easy and the possiblities are almost endless. We've linked several products that will work for these projects on our Seashell Supply website, just click if you want to see them.

The first couple videos are a very strait forward method of simply glueing scallop shells to a glass candle jar. It's a simple method you can do several ways, but it's fun to think of all the different shells you can make these with. Coloful Scallops are great, but you can also try rose tellins, cowrie shells, limpet shells, ark clams and many other shells.

You can also make a larger candle centerpiece with barnacle shells. These are neat because the candlelight shines through the holes in the barnacles.

Another cool method is to glue some longer shells together in a flower pattern. This works really well with mussle shells. You can also do it with some clam shells like turkey wings , and it looks really cool with the pearlecant colors of small abalone shells, especially mule ears.

Then there is the simplest method of all. Just buy the right shell and put candle wax into it.

But this can look great and you can add more than one wick if you want. Derasa shells, large scallop shells, large abalones (seal the holes with glue), large bear paw clams and large oysters... there are a lot of shells that will work great for these crafts. You can go for the natural look or guild them if you want!

And here's a video that will show you how to melt candles, whether you are using a fragrance you like or just want to use up old candle wax, so that you can pour it into shells.

Secret trick. If you want to use any of these ideas for outdoor candles, melt down or incert bug repelant candles and use them! It'll look nice and keep the mosquitos away! 

No matter what you do, it's a lot of fun to make these candles and as you learn to create these simple accents you will likely find yourself dreaming up even better ideas that you want to try yourself. If you have an idea and you are looking for the shells to make it real take a look on SeashellSupply.com where there's a vast supply of shells that will do the trick.