I don't know what it is about Christmas time, but something about it makes me wanna decorate everything in glitter. Maybe it's how the snow glistens in the sun and I wanna bring that in to my home. Who's to say for sure. But today's craft was all about glitter. I even got a friend of mine to do one of her awesome nail designs with some glitter for you guys!!
As I mentioned yesterday today is a give away day. You will have you choice of either a glitter and glue ornament, or a candle.
The first craft I did was the ornaments. They were so simple, all you had to do was pour the glue on to contact paper in what ever design you wanted and shake glitter down over it. Than let it dry over night. I did both snow men and snow flakes.
And the other craft I did was the glittery candles. This one I had a bit of a challenge with as I didn't realize you have to do a very very thin layer of glue in order for this to look right, and that you should stick to a simple design also as going crazy with it will only lead to it looking sloppy. Here are the 4 candles I did, you can easily tell which was done first and which set was done after a little practice.
And here are the adorable nail designs that Candice did for my blog today. She does really great work, I haven't seen a design I didn't like. If you wanna check out all the cool stuff she does just follow this link
http://getnailedbycandice.blogspot.de/ to her blog I highly recommend it. And if you live here in Wiesbaden I'm sure if you got a hold of her she would love to come up with a design for you :)
And as an added bonus I took a couple pictures of Christmas things around my house that had glitter on them too :P
So in order to win today's give away you must answer on either this blog entry or the link from Facebook the following question. And the winner will be drawn the same way the last give away was done.
What Holiday image reminds you most of Christmas (ie snowflakes, nativity scenes, etc...)? Mine is obviously snowmen. They just remind me of the cheer of the holidays. We always loved to build snowmen with our parents when we were younger!
This is cute, I just saw that you have a Blog! I love glitter for the holidays but my husband says its an outdoor sport. LOL ( because it gets everywhere!!) I have a few things that remind me of Christmas, Snowmen and Nativity scenes. I grew up in Texas and could only DREAM of snow. I always wanted it and now that I have it I am not impressed. HA Nativity scenes because my mom collects them and its the hunt for where we have room to set up all of them! Now I have 2 of my own and no matter how far I am from home for some reason that one scene warms my heart. I look forward to reading the rest of your blogs!
ReplyDeleteNot impressed with the snow? Why's that? It will be more fun as soon as LO can play in it :)
DeleteI have two cocker spaniels who LOVE snow. We had it in TN and they would just roll around in it. So now when we go out they do that and its a process each time... dry the dogs wipe the paws and mop the floors. UGHHH lol SO snow = work for me especially on these wood floors . But it is really pretty to look at. =)
DeleteWell that is understandable specially with LO crawling around on the floor don't want him getting in dirty water!! I miss having a dog but on these wood floors it wouldn't be very fun to keep up after.
DeleteI'd definitely have to say snow covered trees and live Christmas trees, I've been stuck in Florida for 11 years and greatly missed the snow and having live trees because they just die faster in Florida. I'm happy to be here where it snows :D
ReplyDeleteChristmas isn't Christmas without snow, we lived in Hawaii before this and it was a very strange thing!
DeleteSanta or anything red and green! Or snow. Or snowmen. I cant choose! I just love everything! Maybe candycanes? Lol!
ReplyDeleteI eat so many candycanes!! And you can only eat them at Christmas time so that makes since!!
DeleteAny comments after this are not able to be part of the give away thank you for reading!
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