Gumball Machine Turned Snow Globe

by Shanna Gilbert

While decorating for Christmas this year I decided to keep myself on a budget. I shopped my home looking for things I could repurpose and make into something festive.

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Since it was always sitting there empty, and she was getting a bit too old for it, I decided to make it over.

I took it all apart, and threw away the inner gumball dispensing parts. Then I spray painted the base, body, and cap with Rust-Oleum's White Gloss.

I found a broken snow globe type thing at JoAnn's for a dollar (a tree had become uprooted in an apparently violent storm of glitter snow), and since I didn't want the globe (just the house inside it) it was perfect.

I set the house inside the gumball machine and filled it with loose faux snow that I found at Target.

I then put the cap back on, tied on a bow, and set it by my Christmas tree.

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Dominique M on Jan 16, 2016
Absolutely adorable!!

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Connie Eggen on Feb 07, 2016
Now that Christmas is past, I actually put the large gumballs in mine and found out it actually works. Right now the kids are enjoying it as a gum machine but later it will get transformed again when the season come.

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