Snowglobe Mason Jars

I don't know about you, but I am loving some of the new trends in Christmas decorating this year. In fact, I'm not sure they're really 'new', but vintage. I am drawn to the vintage Christmas stuff and wish I had some of my mamaw's old handmade Christmas ornaments from way back when to display. I really love red and white all year round, but especially right now with the red/white chevron fabric. I've made several things with that and plan to show you soon. Today I wanted to show you something I've fallen in love with. Anthropologie sells them here, but whoa, Nellie! I'm not paying that price for something I can do on my own. And you can make them, too!

Gather your jars - any size, any shape. I'm going to keep adding to my collection for more variety!

Gather your Christmas trees, snow flakes and whatever else you want to use for your snow globes. {Hobby Lobby has lots of small stuff. I bought my bag of trees there for $1, snow flakes $2}

Fill your jars with the desired amount of snow.

Add your trinkets. Put the lid on.

{If you want to make one with lid on bottom, hot glue item to lid, pour desired amount of snow in jar, screw lid on and turn upside down so snow falls down on item.}

I love my little nutcracker men!

I decided to put my prized Fontanini nativity piece in a glass domed cake stand. I just love it!

I wrapped a couple of the lids in ribbon with hot glue and it added a nice touch. I set my new collection out on the piano and hope to add more as I get a bigger variety of jars.

More ideas:

*A fun idea would be to do a whole nativity scene with these. Hobby Lobby sells miniature nativity pieces in a set in their mini Christmas tree ornament aisle for $4.*

*Make buntings or little signs using these pencils to place in your snowglobes for a very personalized look.

 

Enjoy! And stay tuned for more Christmas decoration ideas!

 

I'm linking up with some of these parties.

UPDATE:
I recommend these products for this project: 

Ball® Regular Mouth Pint Jars with Lids and Bands- Set of 12 (by Jarden Home Brands)
Department 56 Accessories for Department 56 Village Collections Bag-O-Frosted Topiaries Tree
3.5 oz Bag of White Christmas Decoration Snow Flakes

Mr. & Mrs. Pillow {Tutorial}

Today was my cousin's bridal shower! It was fun coming up with a gift for this girl because she's got some fun themes for her new apartment with the soon-to-be-Mr. When I was trying to decide on a what gift to give her, I thought I'd like to make one thing for her. I like handmade gifts for special occasions and bridal showers are great for that! So, as I was debating on what to give her, I checked out her bridal registries and her Pinterest boards {GREAT way to find out what people like!} and then did a little searching of my own and decided to make this pillow for her. It was fun and very easy to make. I thought maybe you'd like to make one for yourself or as a gift for a friend!

I'm linking with some of these parties!