What you need to do:
After removing labels, clean the cans thoroughly then pour water in them and place in the fridge to freeze. Make sure that the cans are solid when you prick holes in them.
Using a folded towel, hold tightly y the can (this way it doesn’t move while making the holes).
You can draw the e pattern on a graph h paper and tape it to the can.
Position a sharp, narrow nail above each mark on your pattern and gently tap it 3-4 times with the hammer until just the point has punched the tin can. Repeat for each mark until you have completed your pattern.
Rinse the can under a hot tap water until the ice block pops out and allow the can to dry.
After you are done you can use some permanent markers to decorate the cans.
The last step is to place some cand candles inside the cans.
With the festive season around the corner, you can create decorative garden lanterns from old tin cans
Lalibela is a town in Amhara region, Ethiopia, famous for 11 medieval, monolithic rock-cut cave churches. It is a high place of Ethiopian Christianity that continues to be a place of pilgrimage and devotion.
These churches were carved out of rock. Their building is attributed to King Lalibela who set out to construct in the 12th century a New Jerusalem, after Muslim conquests halted Christian pilgrimages to the holy Land. Lalibela flourished after the decline of the Aksum Empire.
Though the dating of the churches is not well established, most are thought to have been built during the reign of Lalibela, namely during the 12th and 13th centuries. There are two main groups of churches – to the north of the river Jordan and to the south of the river.
The churches were not constructed in a traditional way but rather were hewn from the living rock of monolithic blocks. These blocks were further chiselled out, forming doors, windows, columns, various floors, roofs etc. This gigantic work was further completed with an extensive system of drainage ditches, trenches and ceremonial passages, some with openings to hermit caves and catacombs.
Biete Medhani Alem, with its five aisles, is believed to be the largest monolithic church in the world, while Biete Ghiorgis has a remarkable cruciform plan. Most were probably used as churches from the outset, but Biete Mercoreos and Biete Gabriel Rafael may formerly have been royal residences. Several of the interiors are decorated with mural paintings. The churches are also a significant engineering feat, given that they are all associated with water (which fills the wells next to many of the churches).
The rock-hewn churches were declared a Unesco world heritage site in 1978.