More Christmas Ornaments

Ever since 2003 I have had a vague desire to decorate my own glass ball ornaments.  I have seen it done in many ways and have my own gigantic collection of them.  I love glass ball ornaments.  One year, my entire tree was covered in them.  I have seen them painted or with things glued inside.  I have seen them with potpourri or paper inside.  My mom has sent a myriad of good ideas that she has seen online.  I went big and decided to try my hand at painting them.  I bought six of these wonderful ornaments and went to work.  I coated the inside of four of them with red glitter paint.  This took awhile and I rotated them every fifteen minutes while I watched a movie one night-that was so the paint would be even.  This step was the bane of my existence while creating these. 

I went back to Michael's to get green glitter paint the next week (because then I would have a coupon) and they didn't have any!  The audacity of it all.  I settled for gold paint because everybody thinks red and green and gold are Christmas colors.  I got out my mom's trusty paint brushes that I have been using for years and are old, decrepit, and barely serviceable (there is a reason she left them behind after all) and began!  It was a little difficult to paint the outside without touching the outside, but luckily, my finger fit in the hole and I had all these paint brushes lying around for drying them.

Here are the results.  They have to "cure" for 21 days (whatever that means because when I see cure I think meat) so I hung them on this closet rod that we weren't using (don't you have one too?) and then added the gold bows with my trusty hot-glue gun.  What do you think?

Here is my pride and joy-can you see the hearts?  They were not easy.

I did those circles by hand and purposefully made them different sizes.