Eco Tea Light Holders

As we mentioned in our earlier post, the approach we wanted to take was to be eco-friendly and not harm the environment. We would purchase the tea lights separately and sell as an item but the physical 'holder' of the candle would be what we would sell. Below you can see some images of the different ideas that we had in mind. 

After scrolling through Pinterest we found that it was really an idea that lots of people had experimented with. We plan on using a wide variety of styles and materials to cater to a larger group of consumers. This means that singly we can each focus on styles or designs that we really admire or are passionate about. 

Glass

                        Concrete/Clay: All examples easily adaptable between the two

Paper

Nature focussed: Wood/Flowers

When searching we also found that many of the experimentations that people had done they had actually documented, so with some ones we like we can follow an easy process on how to achieve them! Here are some of the links:

http://makeandtell.com/make-your-decor-marbled-tealight-candle-holders/

http://www.heygorg.com/2011/10/diy-tissue-covered-luminaries.html

http://www.mrs-hardy.com/2011/11/lrdagsgodt-telysholder-av-betong-sds.html

People even have their own 'stores' dedicated to Tea Light holders on etsy, an online site where you can sell your own craft. 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/Hannahnunn?ref=l2-shop-info-name

- Michelle Francombe

Week 3

In class today each of our groups lay down our own a3s of ideas for others to get an idea of where everyone was at and reassurance for no double ups. Our two ideas were Tie dying and decorating your own lampshade.

The lampshade idea was most successful out of the two, leaving us with a fair amount of stickers but not quite with the guarantee of a 'great idea' as Anna said we should really be feeling confident about. So we sat down with Anna after and discussed our next step and came to the conclusion that the best thing for us to do would be to do a big brainstorm of ideas and find one that we are all really happy to work on.

We basically have to just come to the conclusion that every good idea has already been thought of, so we have to use a good idea as a base to expand our idea off. We were still interested in working with the lampshades and really love some of the images (at the bottom right of the a3) which are using more natural materials/resources and also with the small cutout they are able to display another image along with light placed in the centre.

The 'light' idea is the idea we wanted to play with. This was one of the main faults within the lampshade idea, being that it would be difficult, if someone was to buy one of our lampshades, to not only source the rest of the materials e.g. light bulb and power plug to equip the shade but also all the specifics that come along with the light bulb. Therefore we thought of using a different source of light, a candle. 

Along with candles came the idea of miniature tea lights. Tea lights are cheap, cute and easy to work with, and really everyone loves miniature things. We love the current trend of DIY candles and hanging plants etc but would there be a way to combine the two? We are looking at creating tea light candle holders using natural or recycled resources. Some of these might include clay, glass, recycled paper, wood, concrete, shells, clay and many more. While coming up with the idea we were online looking for reassurance that this was all possible and that we would have interest/passion in creating them, and there are so many different crafts online that really helped us gain that reassurance and get quite excited about the whole thing.

- Michelle Francombe

Initial Poster Designs

These are the posters we produced from the initial ideas. We decided to go with tie dying or painting lightbulbs or lampshades.

After a consultation with the tutors we ran with the idea of creating lampshades, but not for standard lamps and this proved to be too expensive and could not apply to all audiences. We came up with the idea of using tea light candles and selling them along with the shades as a package deal. There are a lot of research we have to now do on what materials are flammable, which create good cylinders and are good for the environment.

I have attached the photographs of our early posters and a brainstorm from class in week 3. The stickers represent the votes the ideas got in class.

NATALIE CRAWFORD

Brainstorm of ideas for the Market Palace

Our team Brainstormed ideas for the Market Palace in week 2-


- Op shopping

- Redecorate old shoes, furniture/ change

- Ty die T-shirts, scarfs, shoes etc

- Hair cuts

- Make jewellery

- Decorate light bulbs and lamp shades- pick a design style for each one and make them unique

- Folding boxes template of something

- Book making/ little books normal size books lots of different sizes

- Something enviromental- something that will help and benefit the enviroment

- Charity work- fundraising for a cause we all care for- donate all funds to the charity- have to do something interesting and exciting to make people interested

- Cuddle kittens/ puppies day

- Creating pop plant holders


MADDIE BARNETT