I love Christmas decorations and one of my favorite items this year is the Mercury Glass Spheres that I have seen on one of the shopping channels. These glass spheres comes in a set of three and usually run around $50.00. However, I just didn’t want to spend that much and I wondered if I could make something similar.
I knew that I wouldn’t be able to find round spheres for my DIY project, but I did find these round glass vases. Yes, they do have a flat bottom, but that was alright with me. The project took me only a total of ten minutes to complete and the results were amazing!
Materials:
Three Glass bowls/vases
Elmer’s White Glue
Sponge Paintbrush
Fine Glitter (I used silver)
Water
Lights or battery operated candle tea lights
Instructions:
1. Mix 2 Tablespoons of glue with 1 Tablespoon of water. This will make it easy to apply to your glass bowls.
2. Apply the glue mixture inside the glass bowls making sure you cover all the surfaces.
3. Pour glitter inside the glass bowls and swirl around until every part is covered. Turn bowl upside down and shake out excess glitter. I did this over my trashcan so the excess glitter went right in the trash. Let dry.
4. Arrange the glass bowls upside down over string lights or candle tea lights.
This first look is with a battery operated string lights that I bought at Target. These lights flash different colors.
Here is the look you get when you use battery operated tea lights.
I just love how these turned out! Add them to a mantle with garland and other decorations and you will have a beautiful display for the holidays.
Mitch says
Wow, thrifty and a do it your selfer. What a fantastic job, and I love the tea light effect!
Mitch
Amber Edwards says
That is brilliant!! They look absolutely amazing! And I just love glittery light bulbs around my house. Feels more like Christmas!
Sofia says
Ingenious!! I would have never thought of this myself. Love the tea light effect.
tammilee says
Those are so pretty! What a fun family art project.
Emily says
Wow these look so pretty nestled into your garland! We are trying to move to a new place but if we get settled in on time to decorate still i’d love to try this.