Mason Jar Snow Globe - Anthropologie Inspired DIY

Anthropologie is my favorite store by a long, long shot.

Interestingly enough, I don't own a single Anthropologie item. Not one.

My reasons are strictly monetary, I can't afford $200 sweaters or $50.00 measuring cups. I still love to walk through the store and get ideas for my home, I always come out with so much inspiration for projects and ways to dress up pieces of furniture or worn out clothes.

This is the latest project I tackled...

Supplies Needed: 

1 Mason Jar - choose one with very clear glass, some have a sort of textured look which doesn't look great with this project. EDIT: You can find a perfect jar for this project for $2.57 at Hobby Lobby. 

2 (or more) model size Christmas trees - these can be found at Michael's or any hobby store near the model train set items, sizes vary, you can get smaller trees and put multiple trees in one snow globe or one larger one, whatever makes your skirt fly up. 

Silver glitter (optional) 

White glitter 

Hot glue gun 

Step 1

Clean your mason jar and dry it thoroughly, the glitter will stick to the inside of the jar if you don't get it totally dry. 

Step 2 

Get your hot glue gun going... 

Here's the tree I chose 

It's obviously not covered in silver glitter...I considered adding a bit to it but I liked the plain snow better. I also happen to not have any silver glitter on hand....whatever. 

Make a circle of hot glue on the inside of the mason jar lid building it up about 1/4 inch, this insures that you'll be able to see the little tree above the rim of the jar. Place your tree on top of the glue - don't smash it down, let the glue set elevating the tree a little bit. 

Step 3 

The glitter I picked is not quite as insanely shiny as most glitter...it's mixed in with some clear pieces which I liked better than the high shine option. Personal preference, do yo thang. 

Pour about 1/4 - 1/3 cup of glitter into the mason jar depending on the size of your jar, you want it to reach the bottom branches of your Christmas tree. 

Place the lid on the jar, screw it shut and flip it over

ta-da 

Anthropologie charges $48.00 for a mason jar snow globe this size. 

I'm not positive precisely how much I spent on one individual globe but I feel safe in saying it was under $8.00 since I already had the mason jar. 

xoxo,  

Rae 

out of the mouth proceed the issues of the heart . . .

There's a buzz on facebook tonight, there has been a buzz everywhere from the get-go of this presidential election.

From Herman Cain and his short lived campaign to Santorum and his beloved sweater vests honestly, I couldn't be more ready for this whole thing to be a done deal. I know I speak for a lot of people when I say that...

This isn't fun.

I've been stretched and tested and driven to search my own heart in order to decide how I feel about issues, big and small. I know many others have been driven to do the same thing, which is as it should be. But I've really been surprised and frankly a little disappointed.

Hold up, before you shake your head and dust off your soapbox because I dared to be disappointed in how someone exercised their freedom to vote (or didn't....) that's really not what I'm referring to. What I'm referring to are the chinks this scenario has shown in our proverbial armor.


Friends, we're called to speak the truth in love. Not in sarcasm, not in condescension, not in anger or self-righteousness. We aren't called to blast others away with our high-powered doctrine.

Let me put it differently...I'm not called to blast people away with my high-powered doctrine.


For the last few months I've seen condescension and harsh words between people who profess to be followers of Christ, I've seen an eagerness to judge heart motives time and time again. Finger pointing at those who don't fit the other person's model of the right political decision making process and oftentimes just a general disgust with those who feel differently.

I'm guilty of not acting in a loving way. I'm guilty of thinking I have a bead on a person's motives when in reality God is the only one who can that. I can't even know my own heart fully...(apparently I get tripped up by the realization that I'm not all-knowing...huh)

It's the night of the election, but what I'm realizing is that this way of behaving is simply the result of some pressure.

That means that it's in there, and the end of an election won't change what's in our hearts.

It is my prayer that we will exhort one another, we will treat others how we would want to be treated and that above all we would speak the truth when it needs to be spoken but that it would always be done in love.

Slow to speak, quick to listen, slow to wrath, a soft answer, not provoking one another.

 This is what I want to see coming out of my own heart. 

Also I'm going to make a batch of chocolate chip cookies. Because.

That's all.  

Love to you my friends, 

Rae