Homemade Ornaments- Pinecone Christmas Trees And Glittery Christmas Bulbs

We do an ornament exchange at our annual family Christmas party and they encourage people to make them homemade. Now that i have my new best pal Pinterest in my life, making homemade ornaments will not only be easy but fun! Here are the 2 ideas we copied from my new friend ;)

Connor and Brianna made pinecone Christmas trees-

 

I bought a package of pinecones at the dollar tree and we found a small package of mini green and red pom-poms 50% off at Joanns. They just glued the pom-poms right on the pinecones wherever they wanted. (Note- lots of glue is needed so they dont fall off!)

I showed my hubbie some of the ornament ideas on my Pinterest board and he wanted to make the Christmas bulbs, so we did- 

We bought a package of different colored bulb ornaments from Joanns Christmas ornament section. They were on sale so for a package of about 9 (?) they were only $2.50. Then we bought three .99 tubes of glitter (also in the Christmas section) in red, green and silver. At first we were dipping the ornaments right in the glue and then shaking glitter on. But when we tried to dry them, the glue and glitter slid right off. So instead Mike thought of painting the glue on in a thinner layer with a paintbrush and it worked! We then continued to sprinkle the glitter on. We had to go back to joanns because the glitter flaked right off. I bought this clear coat spray paint ($3 with a coupon i think?) to spray over the glitter. It helped and the glitter barely came off after that.

We had fun at the Christmas party and the woman who received some of the bulbs loved them and wanted to know how i made them :)