3. Tassel Magic At your local fabric store, find three to five inch long tassels in a color, or a mixture of colors, to highlight your room and metal of your fireplace candelabra. Buy a tassel and a few inches of coordinating cording for each candle on your fireplace candelabra.

Cut cord into lengths a bit longer than circumference of each candle. Either by sewing or by using your glue gun, make a circle of each piece of cording and attach a tassel where you join ends of cording. Each circle of cording should be big enough to easily slide onto a candle, down to its base.

Slip each cording-with-tassel circle over a different candle on your fireplace candelabra. Adjust tassels so they are hanging over edge of candle cups, facing into room.

These tassels so beautifully accessorize candles of your fireplace candelabra, you may be tempted to leave them when you light candles, but please don’t. Remove them before lighting your candles and save them to put back on when you blow candles out at end of evening.

A bit of fabric dramatically posed or some tassels elegantly dangling from your fireplace candelabra can be so charming, your fireplace candelabra can rightfully maintain place of honor in your room’s natural focal point, fireplace, even when its candles aren’t aglow.

Doctors Without Borders 888-392-0392 http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org

International Medical Corps 800-481-4462 http://www.imcworldwide.org

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies P.O. Box 372 CH-1211 Geneva 19 Switzerland http://www.ifrc.org

MAP International 800-225-8550 http://www.map.org

Mercy Corps 800-852-2100 http://www.mercycorps.org

Network for Good http://www.networkforgood.org

Operation USA 800-678-7255 http://www.opusa.org

Relief International 310-478-1200 http://www.ri.org

Save Children 800-728-3843 http://www.savethechildren.org

United Nations World Food Program 202-530-1694 http://www.wfp.org

United States Fund for UNICEF 800-486-4233 http://www.unicefusa.org

World Concern 800-755-5022 http://www.worldconcern.org

World Relief 443-451-1900 http://www.wr.org

World Vision 888-56-CHILD http://www.worldvision.org