Things You'll Need:
- Fruit
- Skewers
- Sugar
- Eggs
- Wax paper
- Glass bowl
- Glass ornaments
- Rubbing alcohol
- Glass paint
- Bowl
- Glass vase
- Cranberries
- Pillar candle
- Tiered tray
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Step 1
Fill a clear glass bowl with sugared fruit that shimmers in the center of your holiday table. Select fresh fruit, insert a skewer as a handle and dip the fruit in egg whites. Sprinkle finely granulated sugar on top of the fruit until the fruit appears somewhat white. Place the sugary fruit on a sheet of wax paper for about 30 minutes to dry. Arrange the fruit in your bowl. The fruit will last as long as you would expect it to without refrigeration. You can feed old sugared fruit to the birds.
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Step 2
Make hand-painted glass Christmas ornaments to fill a glass bowl or to enhance your table centerpiece design. Remove the metal hanger from the ornament, and clean the inside of the ornament with rubbing alcohol. Allow the alcohol to evaporate completely, and squirt a small amount of glass paint down the sides inside the ornament. Rotate the ornament as you add the paint so that the color will distribute all around. Add a different color of glass paint, and rotate the Christmas ornament again. You can add as many colors as you like, rotating the glass until the ornament has a marbleized effect. Turn the ornament upside down over a paper cup, and allow the excess paint to escape. It may take a few days for the paint to dry completely before you can reinsert the metal hanger.
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Step 3
Place a white pillar candle inside a clear glass vase, and fill in around the candle with cranberries. Only fill the cranberries half way up the sides of the candle so that the red and the white are visible. Design a line of three cranberry candle holders along the center of your holiday table or make smaller versions to decorate a tiered centerpiece.
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Step 4
Combine all three of these elements into one holiday table decoration. Place several small vases with cranberries and small pillar candles around the bottom and center of a three-tiered tray. Arrange sugary fruit and painted ornaments around the candle holders. Add sprigs of holly or pine boughs sporadically among the ornaments and fruit for a touch of greenery. For the top tier, repeat the design of the other tiers, but use a larger cranberry candle holder in the center.
