Pinecones and glitter..
What says Christmas more than glitter? It's usually all over the house for a month or two ....
When we were kids we used to collect cones and even cones on pine branches .. paint them or glue and glitter them... painstakingly ... with tiny brushes, some not so great glue, and glitter that came in who-knows-what for packaging. It took us ages.... and, then, we sold them to the neighbours for 25 cents. Our big wagon was empty by the time we got halfway down the block.
We had to hike back up the hill to find more cones....
It took me all of about 5 minutes to do this batch of 3 ... with an old cheap fuzzy brush... a bit of white glue which was getting kind of dry so I watered it down ... and a container of glitter with little holes for shaking on the stuff.... easy peasy.
I worked on a chunk of brown paper bag opened out..so that I can save the excess and put it back into the shaker for another time. It hardly used any of the glitter really.... I'll have enough to last a lifetime in a $7.00 container.
Pinecones and glitter..
What says Christmas more than glitter? It's usually all over the house for a month or two ....
When we were kids we used to collect cones and even cones on pine branches .. paint them or glue and glitter them... painstakingly ... with tiny brushes, some not so great glue, and glitter that came in who-knows-what for packaging. It took us ages.... and, then, we sold them to the neighbours for 25 cents. Our big wagon was empty by the time we got halfway down the block.
We had to hike back up the hill to find more cones....
It took me all of about 5 minutes to do this batch of 3 ... with an old cheap fuzzy brush... a bit of white glue which was getting kind of dry so I watered it down ... and a container of glitter with little holes for shaking on the stuff.... easy peasy.
I worked on a chunk of brown paper bag opened out..so that I can save the excess and put it back into the shaker for another time. It hardly used any of the glitter really.... I'll have enough to last a lifetime in a $7.00 container.