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I found this glass hurricane candle holder at Goodwill recently and thought it would make a pretty cloche with some nature curiosities inside.

I found this just in time to join up with this month's Do-It-Over-Designer's (DOD) Challenge since our challenge item this time is glass.

If you are new to the DOD challenges, we are a group of blogging friends and we take something old or unused that we find in closets, barns, garages, thrift stores, yard sales, etc., and "do it over" into something new!

So, I'm doing over this glass hurricane.

Repurposed Glass Hurricane Candle Holder

Here's how it will work: I'll share my project with you and then at the end you'll be able to go check out all the other ladies' projects!

The only thing I purchased for this project is the candle holder for $2.99. I had everything else I needed!

This is my inspiration: Fungi Forest Dried Terrarium. I love this but... it's $300!! 😲 Come on now, that's a little crazy.

The hurricane I found is meant to stand in the other direction with the flat part down and then you put a candle inside.

Since I'm using it the other way, I need to create a base for it. I wanted something that the sides of the hurricane would fit down into so it wouldn't slide around. 

I found a thick piece of styrofoam that I had saved from a piece of furniture that we bought and I thought it would work.

I traced around the candle holder about 1/2 an inch away and then used a bread knife to cut it. Once I had the shape cut, I pressed the candle holder down onto the styrofoam to make an indent and then I used the knife and carved out a little groove that the sides would fit down into.

I wanted a mossy knoll in mine like the inspiration piece. I had a thrifted bag of styrofoam balls that just happened to have a large one the perfect size. I cut it in half, glued it to the base, painted it black, and then used hot glue to cover it with Dollar Store moss.

I used air dry clay and pipe cleaners to make some mushrooms. I made a stem by wrapping some clay around a pipe cleaner leaving some of the pipe cleaner sticking out so I could stick it into the styrofoam.

I painted the mushroom stems with Sandstone.

I painted the caps with Burnt Sienna and Toffee Brown.

Once they were dry I pushed the ends down into the styrofoam mossy hill.

I added some mini pinecones to act as little braces to stabilize the mushrooms because they are a little top-heavy and wiggled a little too much. Once I added a few pinecones they felt secure.

I added some white dots to the mushroom caps.

Next, I found these cute little clay daisy flowers that I've had forever and thought they would look nice.

I grouped them on one side.

Then I found some dried baby's breath that I saved from a bouquet of flowers that I got.

And finally, I added a faux fern frond.

The final step in creating my little mushroom forest scene was to flick specks of white on the mushrooms. I use an old toothbrush dipped in watered-down paint for this.

Then I put the glass hurricane over the top and pressed it down into the groove in the base.

I wanted to add something to dress up the top so I rummaged through my junk drawer and found this wooden medallion and old furniture knob.

I painted the medallion black and glued it to the top.

And then I glued the furniture knob on top of that with E6000 glue.

And here is the finished piece! 😍

I love it so much!! It turned out even better than I imagined!

Here is the inspiration piece and my version side by side.

Now, be sure to go check out all the other projects. They will all be using something made of glass so it should be interesting to see what everyone has done!

Little Vintage Cottage (ME!)

Modern on Monticello

Pandora’s Box

Purple Hues & Me

Southern Sunflowers

Unique Creations by Anita

Color Me Thrifty  

The Apple Street Cottage

Exquisitely Unremarkable

I hope that you enjoyed this post! I had so much fun creating this project.

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