Give your seasonal centerpieces a wakeup call with their very own cup ‘o Joe. Dig out the coffee that got relegated behind your new single-cup coffee pods and give those old beans new life (and add instant ambiance) atop the dinner table in a candle-lit display.
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Hi, I'm Evette Rios here on eHow.com, and I wanted to share with you guys a really simple centerpiece idea that uses one of my favorite things, coffee. I've got some clear votive candle holders but you can use any clear glass that you happen to have. I've got some candles in here too, these smell so good, oh my gosh you guys, they're pumpkin spice candles. They smell amazing so I'm using something that's really aromatic with the coffee, it's going to smell insane and look really great. So I've got my coffee beans here and I'm just going to scoop some beans into each one of these little votive candle holders. So that's why you're doing the clear candle holder because you want the coffee beans to show and then you're going to kind of nestle your candle right in there. Doesn't that look pretty? So I'm going to do that for all of them. You guys, this is such a super easy idea and if you don't want to use coffee, because frankly coffee is a little bit expensive, but what you can use is you can use any sort of beans, dried lentils, dried kidney beans, anything for color would be amazing, even pasta would be so cute, it'd be great. I mean the idea is just to use what you've got. And now you can light them, my favorite part. So now I'm just going to lay it out on this tray like this and you can kind of, you know, have fun with it, obviously because the tray fits it really well, I'm just going to put them around the outside like so and then put this guy right in the middle and there you go, less than five minutes, I just used candles, coffee beans and little glass jars and you've got a centerpiece that looks and smells great. I'm Evette Rios, here on eHow.com. Thank you so much for watching.