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24 Days of Sparkle Girl – Pretty Pinecones

These are great decorations and look really nice on a mantle piece or with a fruit bowl.

Equipment:

  • Pine cones (you  can buy these in wilkinsons for £1)
  • Glue
  • Green glitter

Method:

  • Mix the green glitter with the glue until it has a soup-like consistency
  • Using a small paintbrush, dab a little bit of the glitter glue onto each section of the pine cone

This was a really easy quick decoration to make.

Make sure you see tomorrow’s post!

Sparkle Girl xx

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24 Days of Sparkle Girl – Places to Put Your Christmas Lights!

Although most people put their lights on their tree… If you want some extra sparkle around your entire house, here are a few ideas:

  • If you have a fireplace, hang them from the mantelpiece
  • On your banisters or handrail of any stairs
  • On bookshelves or even just shelves
  • Round window frames
  • Along the curtain rail
  • At the top of the bed’s headboard!

Basically any flat surface would work!

Sparkle Girl xx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Same rules apply to tinsel!

 

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24 Days of Sparkle Girl – Fun Santa Picture!

This is a fun creative thing to do with younger children!

You will need:

  • Gold or silver glitter paint (or both!)
  • A coloured in picture/drawing of Santa and his reindeer
  • A small paintbrush
  • Plain black (a4) piece of paper
  • A glue stick

Steps:

  • Print out (or draw your own) picture of Santa and reindeer.
  • Cut it out and colour it in.
  • Squeeze a little bit of paint onto a plate and fill up a glass of water.
  • Dot all of the paper with little bits of paint to look like stars, I have made a trail of stars to follow the sleigh
  • Using a glue stick, stick the Santa cut-out onto the black starry paper.

Now you have finished, maybe you could stick it on your wall or something!

Back for another post tomorrow,

Sparkle Girl x

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24 Days of Sparkle Girl – DIY Holly and Leaves

I will show you how to make this fabulous Christmas vase using only a few things! This looks great on a mantelpiece, bookshelf or many more places…

You will need:

  • A pre-lit holly garland (from wilkinsons for £8)
  • A medium-sized vase
  • A golden leaf/stick (also from wilkinsons)
  • A sharp pair pf scissors

Steps:

  • First place your holly garland in the vase, making sure the wire and switch is behind the vase.
  • Cut around 2-4cm off the bottom of the golden sticks, be careful as the golden sticks may scratch you.
  • Put the golden sticks to the back of your vase, making sure you don’t poke through one of the lights!

Now you have done, switch on the lights and enjoy!

Sparkle Girl x

 

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24 Days of Sparkle Girl – Best Yankee Candle Scents for Christmas!

Everyone… Well almost everyone LOVES Yankee Candles, so I thought I would help everyone out by listing the best ones to buy this month!

  SPARKLING SNOW:

This candle smells like when you wake up on a cold winter morning, you walk outside and hear the snow crunching under your feet; that is what it smells like!

SNOWFLAKE COOKIE:

If you love the smell of the oven baking tasty treats then this is the candle for you.

ALL IS BRIGHT:

This simply just smells nice!

FESTIVE COCKTAIL:

This is the ultimate Christmas party scent, it would be a great kitchen smell!

If you have a fake Christmas tree, try this candle to make your house smell of luscious green trees!

 

Back tomorrow,

Sparkle Girl x

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24 Days of Sparkle Girl – Reindeer Present

Materials:

  • Plain Brown Wrapping Paper
  • Red Pom Pom

Equipment:

  • Scissors
  • Sellotape
  • Black Pen or Pencil

Method:

  • Wrap your present up in the brown wrapping paper
  • Make a loop of sellotape
  • Using the loop of sellotape, stick the red pom pom in the middle of the present
  • Draw on eyes and even eyebrows
  • Draw a oval near the bottom of the present and copy the design above

Another post tomorrow!

Sparkle Girl xxx

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Personality Quiz

The way you cross words out… can determine your personality!

Neatly Crossed Out:

You are very detail-orientated and neat. You are a HUGE perfectionist and can sometimes be to bossy.

Neatly Scribbled Out:

You are very creative and love to draw. You are quite fashionable and very talkative. However you sometimes get annoyed easily.

Messily Scribbled Out:

You love sports and don’t enjoy writing. You aren’t the tidiest of people but very kind.

Thank you for reading,

Sparkle Girl x

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October Favourites

In this version I am going to be putting September favourites and October favourites together!

1. McVities Digestive Nibbles – Milk Caramel

I have always loved digestive biscuits but I can find them a bit filling but now… I can munch all day on the nibble version.

2. Adidas Jacket

I wanted one of these for a while and now, I have one! They are great in the cold or the heat, the rain or the sun, windy or not windy.

3. Wilkinson’s Bath Bombs

I know this one sounds a bit weird but if you are looking for a cheap bath bomb try these ones. I would advise the blue ones though as they fizz more.

4. Along Comes Betty – Moisturizer

Be careful not to leave this in the sun as it turns into a  yoghurt-like consistency but apart from that it smells like peaches and is good.

Sparkle Girl xx

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Pumpkin Carving

I have never done pumpkin carving before in my life so I thought I would try it!

This was my attempt:

Happy Halloween!