Christmas Craft:

Its not too late to get your Christmas craft on!  This one only took a few short minutes...would've taken less time if I hadn't had an 8 year old helper.  I've been dying to do this all month but I was super busy at the beginning of the month.  I had some surgery last Friday so the first part of the month was spent making sure that I had everything ready for Christmas.  Now that its over, I have some time to go back and do some things I really wanted to do.  I may even try to make gingerbread cookies...we'll see.

SO, the snowman ornament...who's seen these in the stores?  I totally thought I could do this...no problemo!

What you'll need:
clear glass ball ornaments
fake snow
black and orange paint pens
ribbon (optional)
white glitter (optional)

Take all the tops off your ornaments carefully!  You don't want to mess up the wire or the top part of the ornament!  Then fill with fake snow.

This is pretty messy...and much more so with an 8 year old!  Hubby will have to vacuum now since I can't!  I filled ours up about 2/3rds full so that the snow will move a bit. 

Here's Belle...She wanted to take a picture of her stuffing the ornament!

I found these nifty sharpie paint pens at Michael's.  They were sold individually which is nice.  You don't have to buy a big pack when you only need 2.  And, I have to tell you, I liked them better than other paint pens I've used in the past. 

Add a smiley face to your snowman.

And a carrot for its nose.

Here's all 3 of mine done.  You can see that I added a corncob pipe too.  It was an afterthought but the carrot looked so big that I wanted to balance him out a bit. 

Top him off with a cute ribbon.

And....VOILA!

You now have a super cute snowman ornament!  I think I love him.  I do have a thing for snowmen.  And, at a fraction of the cost, I now have my own!  I made 6.  I had the ribbon.  The ornaments came in boxes of 3 at the Dollar Tree (which had amazing Christmas stuff this year!).  I got the fake snow for $1.99 at AC Moore.  I got the paint pens at Micheal's for $1.99 for the black and $2.69 for the orange and I didn't even use a coupon!   Now that I have the pens and left over snow, I can make some more especially if I find clear ornaments on sale after Christmas!  I just adore that little guy.  I think I'll call him Fred.  Yep, Fred the snowman!