Making "Vintage" look Ornaments.

Hi, again!

Thank you for all the fun comments about my white painted Christmas tree!
You always know how to make me smile!

Now, I'll briefly show you how I inexpensively adorned it.

I had purchased these ornaments in packets of six to ten

at the dollar store.

I'd used what I needed on wreaths

(that I hope will sell during the last weekend of craft sales.)

And then...

(...Oh, please, don't think I am completely intoxicated by this chalk paint stuff.

Really,

I do think of other things during my day)...

I whipped out my 'Provence' Annie Sloan chalk paint,

and brushed a coat on the bells that were left.

 After they were dry,

I waxed them with rugger brown wax,

and they took on a very nice "old" look.

Wanting some variation in shape,

I remembered I had a bag of old thread spools,

and,

after painting them a coat of mossy green,

I painted some glue on them...

and sprinkled some 70 grit German glass glitter,

another really fun product to use.

(Of course, any glitter works for these ornaments;

I chose the German glass glitter because it has the "antique" look I was trying for.)

I found some old crystal lamp pieces

in my endless supply of "someday-useful-things,"

(a much nicer term than my Farmer"s some people's description: "junk",

don't you think?)

and added them for fun.

At the Open House Craft Sale,

I found these quaint, old-looking stars.

I bought the two that they had,

and wanting more,

but not having any,

I thought I'd just ad some star shapes to fill in.

I had some simple wooden star shapes

in my supplies,

and after the silver paint I used had dried on them,

they got a pretty coat of German glass glitter,

but in 90 grit.

The silver is my favorite.

 

It instantly ads an "old" look to anything it is added to.

The wooden snowflake I had

was dressed in the silver glitter as well.

Finding a bag of little snowman light caps for $1

at the charity store was a fun surprise.

My daughter had them on the tree

before I even figured out where the bag of them went.

All of these ornaments came together in a nice way,

and most of them were things I already had

or

they didn't cost much at all.

 Stars seem to be a theme in my Christmas decorating this year.

Do you decorate around any themes for Christmas?

Even the string of lights we found on sale after the 4th of July

fit well,

and it wasn't a planned idea.

Yes, they were a different color for the 4th of July,

 but chalk paint even works on starlight and electric cords;

but I'm not going to tell you about that...

so you won't think I dream in chalk paint.

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