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comments (2) April 20th, 2010 in blogs

Michelle Gervais, Senior Editor

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Create inexpensive, home-made garden lanterns with some twine, a few Mason or Ball jars, some sand or glass beads, and a few tealights.

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arboretum writes: barbs, from my enlarged photo of this,it looks like they wrapped and tied the twine around the ridged mouth of the jar and then tied the vertical twine to 2 or 3 points on that encircling twine so it would hang level.

brilliant idea! Posted: 11:22 am on April 20th

barbs2187 writes: How did you get the twine to stay on the jars. I love this! Posted: 10:04 am on April 20th

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