River rocks, shells, sea glass, buttons, dried beans, coffee beans.

Here's a vase filler I'm using right now, but mine are white and yellow, for summer.

If you spray paint pinecones, you have to spray primer on them first.

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For Spring I put dried split peas (found in the dried beans section of the grocery) and a white piller candle....

ML

I did a search for apothecary fillers which would be similar and this link has a ton of photos. Maybe there's something you like in the photos as well. I have one filled with buttons. I love the colors and simplicity.

Here is a link that might be useful: filler images

Let's see:

-various colors of rice in layers plus white candle

-tiny seashells in sandbox sand

-small vintage toys

-aquarium gravel (comes in lots of colors)

-jelly beans

-a slinky in each one

-ping pong balls

Brainstorming here...

Jelly beans
ping pong balls
golf balls
walnuts
lemons
limes
green apples
moss
confetti
pasta
curls of wrapping paper
little balls of yarn
Scrabble tiles
Legos
Hershey's Kisses
hydrangea blooms

Pastel M&M's

Small colored/clear plastic eggs

Dried lavender flowers

Fine/medium pot pourri

Silk flowers taken off their stems

Dried flowers/large petals - delphinium florets or rose petals are the ones I've used

Small/medium size natural rocks - a more natural/organic look but come in many colors

Large beads if you could buy in bulk so not as expensive

Look in the bulk section of your grocery store. There are many things that can work - just pick a color you like or mix a few different ones together. Anything dried with a texture can look interesting. I've used flavored whole coffee beans and they impart a nice scent in the room for awhile.

One idea I like altho have never done yet is to plant some grass in a container and put tealights on it. Seem to recall it may have been Martha Stewart's idea. Perhaps there were small colored eggs on it as well.

I know Michaels has quite a few vase fillers such as the glass marbles, shells, rocks, etc.

Oakleyok, I love your painted pinecones! So many possibilities for color.

Thanks for the website, I enjoyed browsing jar fillers.

ML, I did the same thing!

In the guest bath, I have my hotel soap collection (it's much larger now). It took me years to figure out that it would be more meaningful if I left the wrappers on...duh! So my later jars have soaps from Atlantis, Waldorf Astoria, The Peabody, Hotel del Coronado, etc. Too bad hotels use generic soap now.

I like a variety of moss in containers like that. Hobby Lobby/Michaels sells bags of mixed mosses.

Moss and/or moss covered "rocks" was the first thing I thought of and you can get either at the Dollar Tree for, well... a dollar!
Shells and dried seaweed if you can get it, always reminds me of summer. This is an old picture from a past incarnation of our Ladies Parlor, but I still love the fill in the apothecary jars. You won't have as much space, but a little sand and some shells would look summery in the bottom of your candle hurricanes.

Wow, so many great ideas! Thanks everyone! Makes me want to run out and buy some apothecary jars and use more of these ideas. There isn't really enough space in my candle holders to use, say, pine cones or lemons, but I have a great list of options now. Loving the Scrabble tiles or little balls of yarn for my particular room. Or the coffee beans... Or the dried peas...

Love your soap collection, Mustangs!

Sue, below is my go-to place for decorative items and they're very inexpensive. They have fillers and jars, dried flowers, etc.

Walmart sells nice jars at low prices also. I love jars, I have them tucked away in various places in the house!

Don't forget the short, fat jars w/silver lids. I've spray painted the lids and put matching fillers inside.

Here is a link that might be useful: Apothecary jars and other fine things

Oakleyokr, What a great website. Thanks for sharing.

Oakley thanks for the website - decent pricing also.

Pretty Mustangs! (Lunch after Easter?)

Here's a current centerpiece. 3 bags of Tuesday Morning sprakely eggs with the hanging ribbons cut off...

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Yes to lunch after Easter! Have you been to the new Tuesday Morning?? It's huge.