I have really been enjoying this Christmasy time of year! One thing I really enjoy is decorating for the holidays and making Christmas crafts. I've been on Pinterest quite a bit just pinning away...and I've actually completed a few of the projects I've pinned. Here are a couple of them. Yes. They involve glitter! :)
I have always liked snowglobes. So when I saw these little snowglobes I thought they would be fun and easy to make. I thought I would have a hard time finding the deer but I found them at Hobby Lobby. This is a baby food jar. I painted and glittered the lid. I glued a little tree and the deer onto the lid and put in a tiny bit of fake snow (that I bought at Target for 90% off after Christmas last year). I put a little glitter in there too. And there you have it. I'd like to make some with jars of different sizes and with different scenes inside.
This is a different little jar "scene" that I made for the mantle. I put some fake snow into a candy jar with some bottle brush trees and a moma and a papa moose. Simple. But I like it.
I thought the little deer jar would be cute next to the moose on the mantle.
Here is a full view of the mantle. It has several Enesco vintage figurines and some other random things on it. I found the white bottle brush trees at Homeland of all places!! The santa on the window is an exact replica of the Christmas tree topper we always had on our tree when I was a little girl. I found this one in a thrift store several years ago.
Here is another little scene I made. The light up ceramic tree came from Matt's Aunt Ka. The little figurines I found on clearance after Christmas last year.
This is my second Pinterest project. A Glitter House. I bought a paper mache house at Hobby Lobby and decorated it with glitter and plastic pieces of candy and beads. You can read all about the history of glitter houses here. I didn't realize that they have been around so long. I made this one while Matt watched the OU vs OSU football game :) The girls helped and now they want to make one of their own! I am really happy with how it turned out. It took about 2 hours total to make.
I put the house on the top of my fridge with my other glittery/gingerbread-ish decorations. I think it looks cute up there :)
These are my vintage Shiny Brite ornaments. These hung on my tree when I was a little girl. I LOVE these!! They just remind me of Christmas when I was young.
This is a new addition to our decorations this year. This is my new gumdrop tree. Matt bought this for me for my birthday. He had a hard time finding it. I had told him I wanted one and he looked at several stores. He said many people had no idea what he was talking about. Fortunately, we found it on Amazon :) I love it!!
Finally, here are a couple of pictures that made me happy....today while I was finishing up my snowglobe deer craft I looked out my window and saw this little deer nibbling at some of the seed under the bird feeders. When I went outside I saw she had a friend. It was so cool to see them back there. We've lived here since the end of May and I haven't seen a single deer yet. I need to buy some deer corn to feed them!
Hope you all are having a wonderful December so far!
