How can you use a clear glass ball with a small neck opening?
Looking for new ideas and ways to use clear real glass balls with about a 3/8 inch neck opening. The balls are 10 1/2 inches around.
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Hi KB. If I had these glass balls, I would paint them with vivid colors and place them in my gardens. You could even pound a stake in the ground and feed it up thru the neck openings so that they are higher off the ground and could easily be seen. These are usually called gazing balls. Good luck KB
Love that idea! Never would have thought of it, but I can see it! Thank you so much, gonna do it!
Do you have a picture?
Floating shelf
I agree with Cindy that turning them into garden gazing balls would be beautiful. You can use glow in the dark paint also or use during the winter as Christmas bulbs.
Hi! Lots of outdoor metallic paints at Home Depot!
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rust-Oleum-Stops-Rust-11-oz-Metallic-Apple-Red-Protective-Spray-Paint-6-Pack-7256830/203722348
you can paint them and float them in an outdoor pond or fountain; you could add battery powered lights to them and use a decor for year round and Christmas; you can make Christmas decorations too
https://www.bobvila.com/slideshow/50-insanely-easy-to-make-holiday-ornaments-46510
Can you fill them with things that go with your room theme? Say sand for coastal or colorful beans or lentils for the kitchen? Then set them on a base and display. :)
Can you use them as Christmas decorations and paint them? You could tie a ribbon around the opening so that it looks like an ornament.
You could also put an air plant into the opening and use it as a planter if you want to keep the glass as is.
Do you have a photo? Could you paint them and put them in pots for decoration in the garden?
Fill it with decorative sand and cork it?
You can always add small Christmas lights inside the ball with the wire coming out the neck. I've seen people do this with wine bottles for a nice decoration.
Make a fairy garden in the ball ,make a terrarium ,put a plant in it just add rocks on the botttom for drainage
Paint the inside, then add fairy lights and place them in your garden. Great along walkways