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

30 Minute Ruffle Skirt {Tutorial}

If you know how to sew a straight line, you are going to love this skirt! It literally takes only three straight lines of sewing to make this skirt. In fact, you probably do more cutting and folding than you do sewing - and the best part? You don't have to hem this!! I'm not a big fan of hemming. I don't know why really. It's not that hard. But this fabric doesn't ravel or fray. You're going to love it!

Materials:
I bought my ruffle fabric at Hobby Lobby for 10.99/yd {Use the 40% off coupon and it's a GREAT deal!}. I only needed 1 yard. Then, I bought poly-satin in silver for 2.99/yd. Used 1/6 of a yard for this skirt. And I already had some elastic on hand.

*Measure the waist that will be wearing this skirt. Then, take that measurement and add 4-5 inches. We will be using elastic for the waist, so that extra 4-5 inches will be good for gathering.
*Measure the length you want and carefully cut your fabric to meet your requirements. {See pic below for a great tip.}

*Now it's time to sew your seam. {I put mine in the back of the skirt.} Place right sides together and sew your seam from top to bottom. I use a 1/2 inch seam. Remember this fabric is stretchy, so slow and steady is best. {See pic below.}

*Now, for the waistband. Take your coordinating fabric {I chose poly-satin} and cut the length the size of your subject's waist + a couple inches gathering and finishing. For a 1.5 inch wide waistband, you'll want to cut a 6" wide piece {We'll be folding this waistband over twice to get our finished width.}

*Fold in half, iron. Then, fold again and iron. {Just like making a bias tape.}

*You can sew a straight seam down that opening, if you wish, but I left mine open.

....And the finished result!

The best part?? I got three skirts out of this 1 yard of ruffled fabric for my three girls who are 8, 6 and almost 4. Better than thrift store prices and it's brand new!

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Warm Fuzzy Welcome!

Welcome to Life is Sew Daily! This is my latest blog {it seems that blogging is my hobby} and I hope you'll enjoy what you see here and come back to visit often. I plan to post tutorials, great resources, linky parties to show your latest projects and perhaps a few giveaways every now and then!

I've been in a sewing mood of late and thought that I'd start blogging about my projects. I have a lot of projects going right now. You can see some of them here where I sell them in my etsy shop. You can also see some of my other 'projects' here where I bake allergy-free for one of my daughters.

Thanks for stopping by! Come back soon!