Late Pinterest Challenge

So I'm a little late.... better late than never right?  

This year I decided to switch it up a bit, we have had the lime green and red themed Christmas for a few years now.  In our last place there was a lot of green and red decor so it just fit in and made sense.  Now that I am sick and tired of red I decided to go with something with our new decor.  Hello Yellow!  I have seen plenty of Christmas stuff out already, even before Halloween, this bothers some people but it just gets me excited!  Of course there are no - zip, zero, none - yellow ornaments.  Now I thought I could spray paint my current stuff but then I thought.... wait red is classic and I will probably go back to it in a few years, so I don't want to ex that out permanently.   So I found this glitter bulb project on Pinterest. 

Found here

After seeing this I figured this woman was my savior to Christmas because T HATES glitter getting everywhere.  I secretly think he is just self conscious about going to work with glitter on his face and what people would think of him.  I have to say that using the Pledge Floor wax is SO much more cost effective than purchasing the stuff "made" to do this project from a craft store, I think I paid about $5 for the Pledge at Wal Mart (Yes, I had to go there b/c Target didn't have it... sad face).  

Here are my supplies.  I purchased more than enough glitter because i had a hard time finding yellow (not gold) glitter.  

 I purchased two different types of glitter.  Martha Stewart in Lemon Drop and Recollections in Sunflower.

The blog I found this project on didn't recommend the larger size glitter like the Recollections I purchased but I found it still worked well and that way it gives some contrast in the bulbs.   I thought about mixing the glitter, but I didn't.... figured I would rather just have two different looking contrasting bulbs on the tree.

 These four probably took me about ten minutes, it probably could have taken me less time but I was also watching Parenthood.

 After those four medium sized bulbs (from Michael's) this is how much glitter I had used (I was surprised it wasn't more)

 After about 45 minutes, I completed 15 bulbs (one large one not pictured).  Not bad considering I was multitasking :)

The picture doesn't do it justice, but you can see I switched the glitter up and the difference between the two will look AMAZING on the tree.  

I still have 23 more bulbs to go.... and I will probably purchase more.  The Pledge will get on your hands and it does make a little bit of a mess.  I didn't waste too much glitter (the first one I didn't have the funnel all the way in the hole of the bulb and I had some spillage).  I was ready for bed and to make sure they were going to dry like they did for the bean before I did them all.  Another thought I have sprung from Sherry at YHL is to use her paint idea on half of the bulb and then *attempt* to use the glitter method on the other half.  I just need to go purchase some yellow craft paint and try one out, I figured if the Pledge reacts with the paint bad I could rinse it out and start over right?  

I'm also thinking of other ornaments I could make or paint yellow.  I know I plan to use white and gold or silver as accent colors.  They will be easier to find!