DIY – Oil Lanterns with Vintage Bottles – Cozy Living

Happy February, cozy loving Friends! Today I’m excited to share these DIY oil lanterns I made these using some of my favourite vintage bottles. I love they way they turned out and I hope you will too.  I’m also very happy to be back this month, sharing with my cozy living friends again.

Cozy Living

The Cozy Living team,  a group of cozy loving friends that simply adore sharing how we live a hygge lifestyle. Our blog hop is hosted by my friend, Jennifer over at Town & Country Living.   There are so many inspiring and creative ways to live a cozy life and this team has all of the inspiring ideas. Please stick around until the end of my post, you will find more from my CL friends, they will also be sharing wonderful ideas for February.

Oil Lanterns with Vintage Bottles

DIY How-To

These little vintage oil lanterns are actually very simple to make. This is what I used to make these little cuties, a quick DIY how-to.

1. Use any bottle(s) you love. Just make sure that the bottle will hold liquid and have no leaks and is steady. I chose these teal coloured vintage bottles. I tend to really love anything with lettering, these bottles were perfect.

2. Next I ordered these white ceramic, knob style wick holders.  They are perfect and fit wonderfully in the top of my favourite bottles.

3. I wanted the bottles to shine, I decided to use a lamp oil that is colourless, odourless and smokeless. This is the type/brand I ended up using.

4. I also poured the oil into the bottles over the sink using a funnel, lined the bottom of the sink with paper towel, I didn’t want any oil going down the sink if there happened to be a spill, the paper towels soaked up any spills.

5. Fill the bottles (not too full), the cotton wick will wick up the oil to the top of the cotton. It is important to keep the wick very short, that will help the flame burn clean, without smoke. This (pictured) is still too long, the cotton should just be peeking out at the top of the white ceramic.

6. Lite the wicks and adjust the length of the wick as needed. There should be no smoke and the flame should burn steady.  Once your oil lanterns are ready, place them in a safe place and enjoy!

DIY – Oil Lantern Vignettes

Lovely cozy vibes.

The glow is perfect!

I love the colour of the glass bottles, the flame highlights the teal colour perfectly!

Add a touch of romance, lighting the lanterns to set the mood.

Thank you so much for joining me today. I hope you’ve enjoyed this post and will give this easy DIY project a try, it will cozy up any space.

Now please won’t you go have a peek at the CL-team’s cozy ideas for February.

Cozy Living Team

Winter Entryway / Pretty Houses in Snow / DIY Oil Lanterns

Homemade Doughnuts / Heart Rice Krispy Pops / Heart-Shaped Tea Bags

 

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