This guide presents a variety of papercraft skills and a wide range of materials to create candle shades for all moods and occasions. A number of ways are suggested to enhance a simple cylinder of plain paper - sticking on leaves, stamps and chess-piece designs. Even the paper labels removed from cans can be recycled into colourful table-pieces. Polly Pinder is the author and designer of the Home-Made series - Home-Made and at a Fraction of the Cost, and the illustrator of Muck & Magic which won the 1993 Sir Peter Kent Conservation Book Prize.