How To Beautifully Repurpose Empty Candle Jars & Designer Shopping Bags

I wanted to do something fun in my blush pink office with a floral arrangement recently. I brought one of my favorite trays out, this luxurious leopard-print tray, and added two smaller glass cylinder vases with pink roses and baby’s breath and then placed them carefully in this Chanel shopping bag.  I thought it looked very chic on a stack of Megan Hess books (especially the Coco Chanel book and Paris book), with a vintage string of pearls and another designer candle.  Isn’t that so pretty?!  The possibilities are endless!  You can really get creative with your vignettes.

I also had a couple of gifts to deliver and wanted to use some bright pink, so I pulled out my Victoria’s Secret bags and Kate Spade bags.  Tiffany bags would be cute too and Louis Vuitton….so many different ideas!

I dropped off some fresh flowers, sparkling cider and rose lemonade to a friend in this Victoria’s Secret shopping bag and she just loved it.  It was so bright and happy and perfectly pink!

Another fun gift idea was delivering some flowers in this Kate Spade gift bag, or shopping bag.  You can put a small glass vase in there with a small amount of water if you want OR you can just wrap the bottom in plastic wrap and tissue paper to keep the bag from getting wet and tearing.

Helpful Tip: If the flowers are going to be out of water for a while (maybe you’re taking it to a restaurant to give to someone or driving a ways), you could put some water in a ziplock bag and put the stems in there and then rubberband around it, to keep the water from leaking.  I’d also add some tissue paper around it.  But it’s a really good ideas because you don’t want your pretty flowers to die that you’re gifting to your friend.

Do you love this idea but you’ve thrown away all your designer shopping bags and gift bags?  Try looking on eBay or Etsy.  Here are a few I found that are available for sale at the time of publishing this post.   Click on the arrows to scroll right and left.

How to Beautifully Repurpose Designer Candles

Diptyque Paris Candles are all the rage these days.  I’ve been a fan for several years now.  I have them in the largest sizes, the regular sizes, and I’ve purchased and received several of the mini gift-set sizes as well.  They’re really nice-smelling candles and they are also great to use after they have been burned.  You can use them as vases, like I did above with this large size.

After burning and using all the candle, you can freeze them for several hours and then pull out the wax and clean it out!

This empty “Roses” Diptyque candle jar was especially cute to use at Valentine’s Day in my entry as a vase.

This was another cute vignette I made at Valentine’s with this vase but is perfect for year-round decor.  So cute, right?!

It’s cute alone but I especially love it stacked on a beautiful set of fashion books or also beautiful floral books, like these favorites of mine, Dahlias and Vintage Roses, by my dear friend Georgianna Lane.

In the little corner of my butler’s pantry, I used a mini size candle jar from a Diptyque gift set as a vase and created a cute little vignette.

Another darling idea for the empty Diptyque jars in the mini size is to use it in your office to hold little things.  I am using it to hold my jumbo brass paper clips.  Cute, right?!  You can see more of my glam blush pink office HERE.  I made my own “Press for Diet Coke” faux door bell.

I use the standard size empty Diptyque candle jar on my perfume stand on my vanity to hold a few of my favorite lipsticks that I use constantly (and have duplicates of because I can’t live without them).  I like using the large size (this is a rare Roses one I bought off eBay) to put all my Scentbird scents in.  It’s not only practical and functional but it’s also very stylish and chic!  Oh, and it’s environmentally-friendly too so that’s a bonus!

Do you have any other ideas?  What else could you use your empty candle jars for or what DO you use them for?  I’d love to know!

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