Outdoor Christmas Balls
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I've been on the hunt for glass globes all year. They are a cheap find at yard sales & thrift stores. As luck would have it, while I was working in the donation center at the living harvest thrift, 7 matching globe fixtures came into the center. My fellow volunteer kind of looked at me crazy when I said I would take all seven. We recycled the metal parts & I bought the globes.
Materials:
- Glass globe, clear, white, or textured
- Metal tuna/chicken cans
- Looking Glass & sliver metallic spray paint
- White String lights
- Pine cones/rocks (optional)
- Large flower pot
Steps:
- Throughly clean the glass globes inside & out, let dry
- Spray the inside with Looking Glass paint to give globes a mercury glass look
- Spray cans with silver metallic paint, let dry
Putting it all together:
- I laid a large flower pot on its side & positioned the glass globes as if they were tumbling from the pot. Two globes got lids (I only had two cans to make lids-the rest will be capped next year!)
- The globes were kept in place with pinecones & mulch (rocks could be used). My flowerbed slopes just slightly so I needed to use the pinecones to keep everything in place.
- Once positioned, I stuffed lights into each, using two strands for the display
That's it-I love the look & am so pleased with it.
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Love all those ideas . Thankyou.
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Our Habitat/Humanity Restore has lots like this/or similar. I have been trying "dyeing" glass with ModPodge -with a few drops of fool color. I found it on Pinterest. Amazing! I might try that on some for year 'round garden treatment.
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