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!
