GLITTER!!

Everyone has their weaknesses. 

One of mine happens to be glitter.

What is it about glitter?

Everything is better with glitter. 

For example: these votives. 

 They were perfectly fine before. 

But fine just really wasn't what I was going for. I'm on a recent mission to rid my life of clutter (since I'll be moving soon, for one), I've been paring down the tchotchkes in my home. 

This has been my recent motto:

But then I got a tube of glitter.

 And once you open a tube of glitter, you can't just do one project. The first was just to write our names on the cheap-o stockings I got (I will be festive this holiday season! I will!!)

After that I had an almost full tube of glitter. 

Can't let it go to waste!

So I got to gluing. At first, I tried superglue. Bad idea. Stick with the good-old Elmer's. 

Second, I tried to follow the existing design on the votive. That also did not work, because Elmer's just doesn't stay thin and tacky enough to maintain the shape. 

Blobby is not a good look

So then I just went wild and covered the whole thing in glue, going small section by section. I just used the cap on the glue bottle to spread an even, pretty think layer of glue from top to bottom in 1-inch sections. Between each section I let it dry for a minute or two just so it wouldn't move when I turned the votive. 

*Note* I did not roll the votive in the glitter, I sprinkled it on. Rolling is a lot messier. Trust me.

And look at the result! 

This is now the scene of my bedside storage bin-turned bedside table (which I hope to replace with some real furniture someday soon. 

What about that awesome gold skull, you ask? It was a plastic skull from the Dollar Store's Halloween decorations that I spray painted gold. The tray? Another dollar store find.

And you know what the best part is? I still have lots of glitter left :)

<3 CopyKat