Candlelight decoration with coconut shell!

We can make beautiful candlelight decorations with coconut shell for festival celebrations and other room decorations. This candlelight decoration will look more beautiful in the dark since the glitter we use in this craft will give additional shining attraction. The one thing I should mention here is to use the round coconut shell for this craft, I used shell which is not equally broken, it has some ridge and groove edges. I just made this craft to make this blog, so I didn't care much for that. But if you want to make this craft for decorative purpose, please use a good round coconut shell with perfect edges...
Click here to see my video tutorial for this craft...

Materials used:

Candle (small, round, decorative candle)
Coconut shell
Color stones (we can also use small pebble stones that to be colored with shining nail polish)
Sand (fine beach sand is best)
Glitters (multi-colors)
Bead chains and beads
Glue gun
Small round-cut cardboard
normal stones, seeds (alternative to color stones/optional)

Method of making:

For basement: 
Cut the cardboard in round shape.

Stick a white sheet (thermocol sheet is preferable) on over the cardboard.

Fix five color stones on the cardboard like a flower shape, and keep it aside, we can fix this thing with coconut shell later after finishing decorations.
For decorating the top edge of the shell:

Take a bead chain and fix it over the whole round top edge of the coconut shell with using hot glue gun.

For decorating the outer side of the shell:
Take another bead chain with different color and fix the chain like hangings around the shell covering all the sides like thoran.

Fix individual beads between each hangings.

For decorating the inner shell:
Fix the color stones over the inner side of the coconut shell.

Then, fill half of the shell with sand.

Over it, fill with small crushed color stones (black is preferable, because it will induce more visibility of glitter particles) to form a layer above sand.

Sprinkle multicolor glitter mix densely.

If you don't get crushed stones, don't worry, simply sprinkle glitter over the sand or use normal small stones or beads or seeds to fill it.

Final work:
Place the candle at the center and decorate the color stones around the candle.

Lightning of the candle:
I have loaded the candle so it was wonderful to see the shining of glitters and color stones along with beads.

This craft is very simple to make and we can recycle the coconut shell usefully. The usage of sand and stones is to absorb the little heat produced by candlelight.

Hope you like this simple home decor idea. Try this at your home with your own idea to enhance the beauty of it.

Your valuable comments and feedback will improve me with more better ideas, so feel free to share your comments... Thanks....!!!