All that glitters...

Remember the glitter from this post?

I know, it's a long time ago...

I know, I should have got to this sooner...

I know, I should clean my house instead of blogging...

oops, sorry, blame my mums voice in my head, she gets carried away in there sometimes!

Well, anyway, here's what we did with the glitter.

WE CHOPPED UP SOME PADDLE POP STICKS!

because glitter really helps with that!

uh, no, that was the start. We cut them up so we had two whole and one cut into 1/3 and 2/3 of the stick for each set. I used a big carving knife and pushed down with the knife as I bent the stick up... I'll need to find the cleaver if I do this again.

Then we glued them like this...

hang on, here's a shot with those cute little hands out of the way...

Make sure you have something down to protect your surface from over zealous gluers.

Once that step dries (by the time we finished the last one the first one was dry) you the water down the glue a bit so it can be painted on and you cover the whole thing with glue.

Then you glitter them! FUN FUN FUN!!!

Once that step dries you glue a star on the top (These ones said they were stitch on ones but they had no holes for stitching??? good thing I didn't need holes for this craft)

And you've got yourself some cute little Christmas trees and nothing to do with them.

So, in 12 months time when you are thinking of Christmas craft you can give these ones a go, they didn't take very long at all and even my non-crafter Lion stayed focused long enough to see it through to the end (I may have threatened him that if he didn't finish the ones he started I would give all his stars to Dragon because we were a couple of stars short, and the stars were the only redeeming point of this craft for Lion).


DISCLAIMER: I didn't come up with this craft myself, I got the idea from another mummy who should really blog all that fun stuff she does with her kids *looks at Girl From the Ville*

While you're here, please pray for Kate, remember her, pregnant with twins... high risk pregnancy to start with... well, she has diabetes to make it all the more memorable now. Her BGL's are not doing what they should, she has the specialists stumped, when they should be high they are dangerously low and when they should be low they are soaring... please pray that it all gets under control so she can relax and enjoy the last weeks of this pregnancy.

On a positive note she has had her date extended by a week because (other than that diabetes thing...) she is doing so well! Just what you wanna hear... "it's the middle of summer, you're carrying two little heaters inside you, we might keep them there for an extra week"... no, it really is a good thing, every extra week is an extra week stronger those sweet little babies will be!