Mason Jar Pin Cushion {Tutorial}

A few weeks ago, I was out shopping around my local thrift stores and happened upon the cutest little mason jars. There were 6 of them priced at .75 cents each. I couldn't pass them up! Immediately, I thought about making at least some of them into pin cushions. It took me awhile, but I finally got around to making two of them last week. These are so easy to make and who doesn't need a pin cushion? Or two?

These would be great as gifts for your favorite crafters or a fun project to make with your kids!

I'm sharing with some of these parties!

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