Aghhhhhhhhh, my apologies for bringing you such a stupidly simple project, my mojo is still very much somewhere else at the moment and I find myself only able to come up with the most basic of ideas ....... but I am still valiantly trying to find it and keep the blog going ...... so for today may I present to you my first festive baubles of 2020 ....... I have to be honest, the pictures don't really do the actual baubles justice, they really are an awful lot prettier and ethereal in real life than they look here, in the pictures the wire seems to come to the fore which is such a pity.
I had seen this sort of idea on Pinterest a while ago, a clear bauble with a wire of beads inside, I loved how pretty and delicate they looked, but I could never find the right wire to use .......
I already had a box of medium sized, iridescent, clear baubles from Paperchase from a good few years ago, just waiting for a suitable project.
I simply cut an 80cm length of wire from the garland and curled it roughly round my fingers to give it a little shape .........
....... before gently feeding it into the bauble, hoping that it would not only distribute itself fairly evenly inside the bauble, but also, being wire, continue to hold it's chosen shape ....... it worked!!
I can't tell you how chuffed I was ....... simple things!
I have kept a four baubles and about another 160cm of wire aside, just in case inspiration strikes again!
These are very pretty. I did something similar once, but I used older bulbs that had fading or scratched color. I used bleach on the inside (poured a little in, put a gloved finger over the hole and shook) to dissolve and remove the rest of the color, leaving me with clear baubles. I then added a small mound of iridescent tinsel to the inside. It sparkled and glimmered in the light. While I made these more than 25 years ago, I still have some of them to put on my tree at Christmas time.
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