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swallow bird ornament from a cereal box | christmas crafts

I have another easy Christmas craft for you using a cereal box, school glue & glitter! While I love pretty much all creative endeavors, I’ve never considered myself a “crafter”, but Christmas brings out the crafter in me. It’s the perfect time of year to make handmade gifts and decorations. There is also something about the season that inspires me to make things just for the sake of making them…for the process and enjoyment of it. And then I can hang it on our tree or put it on a shelf or give it as a gift. In this post, I’m sharing how I made a pretty swallow bird ornament with simple supplies. I just love the shape of a swallow in flight with that delicate tail, so when I was thinking about an ornament shape to make, the swallow immediately came to mind. Here is the vintage graphic I

December 6, 2021 11 Comments

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how to make a 3d cardboard & glitter star | christmas crafts

I remember seeing one of these 3d stars made years ago by Wendy Addison and I’ve always wanted to make one! This year was finally the year that I cut up a cardboard cereal box, folded the 3d star, and finished it off with some German glass glitter. Here is how to make this 3d cardboard & glitter star… 3d cardboard & glitter star | Materials & Tools Thin cardboard (cereal, cracker, or other dry goods box) pencil ( is my favorite) ruler or straight edge aluminum baking dish plastic spoon 3d cardboard & glitter star | video tutorial 3d cardboard & glitter star | steps THIS is the star template I used. The shape felt like a good vintage-style star and there was no need to reinvent the wheel. I did enlarge it to about 180% to make the start as large as I could fit on a

November 27, 2021 7 Comments

All Things Home

Holiday Crafts with Walmart

Disclosure: This post is sponsored by . All words and opinions, as always, are honest and my own. Let’s make some holiday crafts… I have always loved making things for the holidays…for gifts, for decorations, or just as something fun to do to fill a quiet afternoon indoors. This holiday season, I find the pull to making things even greater. I know there will be a lot of time at home as opposed to some of our usual seasonal outings, like visiting family, black Friday gift-shopping, and going to the movies. Instead, we’ll be doing more puzzles, family games, movie nights, baking, and I’ll be doing a few more holiday crafts. Since we will be spending the Thanksgiving break at home (as I’m sure many of you are as well), crafting is a great way to get off electronics, gather together, and make some good memories. To share a few

November 20, 2020 26 Comments

All Things Home

idea overload & glass glitter banner kits

This weekend, I’m presenting at the Holiday Expo at McLean Bible Church, just outside of DC. (I shared the details HERE, if you’re interested in attending.) With a sick kid, I was a little behind with getting my presentation together, but I’m going to the set up and rehearsal tomorrow, so I needed to get myself in gear today! As I’ve been thinking about what table setting I want to present, I found my head swimming with ideas. Too many ideas for one table. Idea overload. I don’t usually feel that way, so I was very indecisive about which direction I would go. In that moment of feeling overwhelmed with all the possibilities, I realized that a lot of blog readers and Pinterest lovers must feel that way. This expo is about bringing Pinterest and Etsy to life, so I felt like I should share ideas that are popular on those

November 12, 2015 33 Comments

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glittered house & deer

Now that the floor sanding is behind us, I cannot wait to start decorating the house for Christmas. I walked past live wreaths, garland, trim and tabletop trees at the store this week and was just longing to put one in my cart, but I’m waiting until Thanksgiving passes. I don’t want my live greens to be dried to a crisp by the time Christmas morning rolls around! I’ve been satisfying the craving with Pinterest, holiday magazines and some Christmas tunes. I also started on a few projects, like the upholstered Christmas banner and the mason jar snow globes. I also whipped out the MMS German Glass Glitter to use on a few things… I found this plastic deer at an antique store for $5.00 and knew it would look amazing glittered. It actually looked pretty as is, but you know how I am. Can’t leave well enough alone! I brushed it

November 26, 2014 20 Comments

Decorating

mason jar "snow globes"

I have to start off by saying how much I enjoyed reading all of the comments in response to my post yesterday. In a way, it was very therapeutic for me to write and I’m glad it was encouraging to others as well. This is definitely one of those not-new-at-all ideas, but they are so cute that I thought I would make a few mason jar “snow globes”. Kriste is the one who introduced me to them and she pointed me in the right direction when it came to picking out cute things to put inside the jars… I found most of the items, as well as the jars, on Etsy and at antique stores. We found a few of the bottle brush trees at Hobby Lobby. At first, I was a little perplexed at how to fill the jars and Kriste got a good laugh at me. Just give me a

November 19, 2014 21 Comments

Fall

autumn table & more glittered pumpkins

A couple of weeks ago, I showed a more traditional, spooky black & orange fall table with black glass glitter on pumpkins, crows, pinecones and a paper bat bunting. In this setting, I wanted to show glittered pumpkins in a totally different way, so Kriste & I set up a rustic autumn table with a little glam element in the form of gold (14 Karat) and silver (Tiara) glass glittered pumpkins. Kriste took the lead on glittering these pumpkins and opted to glitter the stems and a “starburst” sort of pattern on the top of each pumpkin. I think they turned out beautifully. (The glitter is adhered with Elmer’s school glue.) We used live pumpkins, but this would be perfect for artificial pumpkins as well…probably even better since they can be used year after year. We also decided to try one with a mix of 14 Karat & Tiara glitter, which looked lovely.

October 28, 2014 12 Comments

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black glittered pumpkins & more

Today in the studio, Kriste and I worked creating two very different Halloween/fall tables. In the one I’m showing today, we went with a black/orange/spooky classic Halloween theme. Neither of us are big on decorating for Halloween, but this was so much fun to put together and we both love how it turned out. We featured Flapper Black MMS GGG (Miss Mustard Seed’s German Glass Glitter) on several simple projects on this table. We glittered live and wooden pumpkins (found at Target), some clearance plastic crows, pine cones and paper bats that we made into bunting. We made them with the same glue & glitter technique most people learn in elementary school. Pick something to glitter… …have some glitter at the ready and work over some paper or a container, so the glitter can be reused. Brush on a white all-purpose school glue… …and immediately sprinkle the glitter on. Allow

October 15, 2014 34 Comments

I’m Marian, a painter, writer, and lover of all things creative. From art and antiques to home projects and everyday life, I share my journey in hopes of inspiring you to embrace your own creativity and make beauty in the spaces you live.

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