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Showing posts with label tin can luminarias wire Christmas trees. Show all posts

Friday, November 7, 2008

Now For Something Crafty

I'm pretty disappointed in my tin can luminarias, but that's all my own fault*blush* I should have chosen a design that was simpler and would easily show up at night. At least it smells good...thanks to that huge box of vanilla tea lights I bought for a quarter at a yard sale this summer. There's a spicy apple scent,too. MmmMMMmm :D Perhaps a few more holes and it'll work? Maybe someone can point me in the right direction for some patterns...

Some tamale cans we washed and removed the labels, they're a nice size for this sort of project. Fill them with water and freeze. More than likely the bottom will push itself out. No worries, just drill the holes, or use a hammer and a nail to make the holes, remove the ice, and flip the can over and hammer it back in.
Find a pattern you like and draw it on paper, and cut it to fit the can. Wrap tape around it to hold it on. Packing tape would be best, but I had to use regular tape today. I'd like to have a bird pattern.

As you can see, the pattern I chose isn't working :D LOL I'll try to tweak it tomorrow.




Last year at the clearance sales after Christmas, I bought these little trees that had bells hanging on them. At the time I thought I'd just love to yank the bells off and use them for some little something or other. I painted some with pastel glitter nail polish :D I love how they look! I found them the other day and thought "wow, I can make some teensy little ornaments for these!", so I took them out and painted them both white. Only because I had no more pink spray paint left! One of them should have been pink. ( oh, before I forget, I went to WalMart where they've transformed the Garden Department to a Christmas Wonderland, and saw some sweet little table-top sized pre-lit trees. They come in white, pink or lavender! I'm gettin' me a pink one..I have spoken! Where was I??.....oh!...so I painted them white and here they are. Wish I could solder, and I will learn this, maybe Santa will get me a how-to for Christmas and lots of goodies to go with it.. I'd make some pretty charms for it.