Is that jingle bells I hear?

Time to freak out, only one month until Christmas! No stop... don't freak out, it's just another day and you really don't have to spend lots and lots of money on presents and food and alcohol! I'm pretty sure Jesus won't mind the lack of Two Dollar Shop stocking fillers and turducken on his birthday, in fact he probably thinks it's a bit mean to stuff animals into other animals and then eat the resulting Noah's Ark meatwich, or giving your nearest and dearest a ropey bath bomb that can also double as an abrasive cleaning product.



I'm thinking of Christmas only because I recently found these gorgie old glass baubles still box fresh in their packaging, and I want to see if I can make jewellery out of them and not look like I'm very obviously using a Christmas decoration because they are so retro-tastically beautiful and they need a life away from a crappy old tinsel tree. Surely can't turn out any worse than those awful flashing candy cane earrings that people who work in offices insist on wearing to their "Xmas" dos?



Check the hand painted accents and the glitter, you wouldn't get that level of detail from a machine. I can just envisage the factory where these were made... little elves busying themselves with blowing glass, replenishing massive trays of multicoloured glitter and dancing while they work to Bing Crosby's Greatest Christmas Hits.