Glass Ornaments and a Little TLC

Remember these? Found 'em while I was doing a little treasure hunting. There are endless projects to be done with clear glass Christmas balls. Today, I'm gonna share one project that you can do with these beauties. Well, I guess it's just one project...one project with several different outcomes. Hang on to your socks...I told you I had a feeling I'd been knocking them off!


So here is what the ornaments looked like before. Someone had spent lots of time folding up little pipe cleaners and stuffing them into each ball. Lucky for me, I ended up with glass ornaments and lots of pipe cleaners to use for another project!


I used all 12 for this project...they were too pretty to stop stuffing! I decided to top them off with all different sorts of embellishments. I ended up filling them all with vintage sheet music, but I chose 3 different ways to stuff them; rolled up, crimped, and plain ole strips. Here are several close ups. I know, I know...I took A LOT of pictures, but you're only seeing the ones that I posted! They are just so darling!


When I started this project, I thought I would do them all alike. I pulled out all the pipe cleaners and began cutting the sheet music into strips.


I just started stuffing the balls with the strips, until they were full enough for me ( I had to use tweezers) and then put the caps back on.



I used all sorts of pieces for embellishments. Brown ribbon, burlap, twine, lace, even a few of the pipe cleaners I had pulled out.



I got tired of just the strips, so I started rolling the strips up, holding them tightly for a few seconds, then stuffing them down into the glass. I think these turned out real pretty!


I had an old big book of sheet music, probably used for piano practice, and then I had an old hymnal. The hymnal pages actually rolled up and held their shape better, but I preferred the grungy color of the sheet music. In the ornament below, I used the hymnal pages. Can you tell the difference in color?




The last style I used was crimping, or what looked like crimping. I just folded the strips, accordian style, back and forth, then stuffed into the balls. You see my repurposed pipe cleaners sticking out up there?!



Gosh, I just love how these turned out!

What do you think? Still wearing you socks?


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Lamp from Ribbons & Twirls

I have to share this with ya'll because I absolutely LOVE it! I guess it's a good thing that I don't have any little girls because I would probably have to fight them over this! A dear friend of mine from Ribbons & Twirls made this for a craft show this weekend. She does a lot of those frilly little tulle TuTu's, ribbons and hair clips, and cute holders for hair clips, this lamp being one of those!

She found a lamp at a consignment shop, spray painted the base, and pulled the fabric off of the shade, leaving just the metal. Then she covered the metal wire in colorful pink and brown ribbon, adding extra strips of ribbon where there was no wire. And finished it off with that darling pink pom-pom fringe...FANTASTIC huh?!

Shabby Chic Cupboard Frames

You know me and my large appreciation for turning old into new, so when I found some old cupboard doors, I knew exactly what I wanted to use them for, thanks to Stacie over at The Creative Crate. She has a fabulous tutorial for Cute Cupboard Frames that I stumbled upon. Be sure to go over and check it out.

Anyways, I thought I would share them with you. I started out with these cupboard doors from, you guessed it, Habitat! Man, the more I blog the more I realize how often I shop there! I may not build any of those Habitat Homes but I sure do contribute!

I found these beauties and I paid a whopping $0.50 each!

I spray painted them with an almond tan...LOVE some spray paint! Once they dried, I sanded the edges, then, with a paper towel, rubbed stain in the corners and around the edges, and then rubbed it off.

After the stain dried, I measured and drilled two holes in the top of the cupboard. You can see in the picture that there was already one hole drilled in each of the doors. Based on that one hole, I measured for the other hole, and that is where I did my drilling. That sounded really confusing. Sorry! Short version...I drilled some holes!

I had some brown ribbon laying around, so I don't count that cost into this project. Oh, and I also already had the spray paint and the stain. I threaded the ribbon through each hole and tied it into a pretty bow.


And a close up of one...ALMOST THERE...



I found a pack of 4 sliver magnetic clips in the office section of Wal-Mart, I think they were around $1.98. I used some E6000 glue, that stuff is pretty incredible by the way, and glued the clip onto the frame. And this was the end result...


And another...


And a close up...


I just think these are darling! LOVE them! And I am sure there will be several more to come! Oh, and they cost me a total of $2.98! That's probably the best part!