Christmas In July – Crafting in my “B” Suit

I don’t mean my birthday suit… although I was tempted, let me tell ya. I mean my bathing suit… and we don’t even have a pool!!!  I guarded the camera all day long so there wouldn’t be any pictures. Thank goodness! I don’t want to be anyone’s swimsuit model.

It was sooo hot and humid today that I almost didn’t do a Christmas in July project, and when I woke up this morning I had no idea what project I was going to try to do.

But I took one for the blog and sweated my way through it, figuratively and literally. We don’t have central air in this house. We are green nuts… but at times like these I think we’re just nuts.

 

I went through my stash for this project and I found this star shaped basket that I had been given a gift in years ago. Now I was onto something, and I grabbed some wooden cranberry bead garland, some glitter, green Beauti-tone spray paint, and the subject to be framed… a vintage glass blown snowman ornament.

Here’s a close up of the basket.

 

I removed the white beads from the curlicue thingies and spray painted it green and sprinkled it with green and gold glitter while it was still wet. The glitter gives a subtle blingy effect.

Then I replaced the white beads and added some of the red wooden cranberry beads… just wherever I thought they looked good.

After hanging my snowman ornament inside the basket I thought it needed something more.

I ventured up to my sauna-like craft room on the second floor of the house (every self-respecting Finn is supposed to have a sauna you know), and went through my Christmas craft supply stash and found this pretty little trio of crocheted bells hanging on their own little red velvet bow. They even had little metal bells inside. Perfect!!

 

It’s a good thing this vintage snowman ornament is made of glass or he’d definitely be a puddle right now. It’s 4 o’clock on Sunday afternoon and I feel like a puddle right now.

Because I already had everything for this project it cost me absolutely nothing, except maybe five pounds. lol. But that’s a price I will happily pay.

So now I can afford to have a delicious bowl of wonderful cold chocolate ice cream.

Check it out!!!

There is actually some ice cream under all those strawberries, bananas, walnuts, and the cocunut.

Yummmm!!!! Almost makes the heat bearable!!!  Almost!!!

Stay cool!