Kathy Zengolewicz

Here is what you will need to get started:

• A glass bowl or frosted bowl
• 12-15 ornaments, depending on the size of your bowl (I used a couple of packs of glitter Christmas balls from the dollar store)
• Battery operated mini lights (I used a strand of 10)
• Rub On decorations for glass (I chose to use snow flakes)

Clean your glass bowl and let it dry thoroughly. After drying I clean the outside surface again with an ammonia window cleaner. It will help the rubs on to stick.

Apply your rub ons according to the package directions. After cutting them down to size, you can tape the individual icons to the glass before using the stick to rub them on.

Before placing the ornaments/Christmas balls in the bowl, place the mini lights in and arrange around each ball as you add them to the bowl.

If it looks like you don’t have enough ornaments you’ll have to improvise a little more. You can place some shred in the bottom of the bowl to lift the ornaments so that they will sit a little higher in the bowl. Play around with it a little bit until you get it to look just right.

I am sorry to say that I don’t think that the picture does  project justice, it is much nicer in person. After completing this project, I lit the minis in the bowl and it really looked beautiful. So, give it a try!

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Christmas Ornament Bowl Centerpiece

So this year when it was time to start decorating and my kids opened the boxes of ornaments and nearly took each other down trying to find their favorite, it took everything in my motherly power not to flip a bit. Seriously, I could feel my heart pounding and I think I even started twitching (just kidding), but then it hit me – Christmas is about kids and my kids were really excited about decorating the tree.

Instead of letting myself get all wound up, I made myself a cup of tea, sat back in the chair and watched the kids place each ornament on the tree. I resigned myself to the fact that the tree would not be “perfect” (whatever that means) – instead I just enjoyed the moment.

Being the kids that they are, once they had each placed their favorite ornaments on the tree, one by one they kind of lost interest, leaving my prized White House ornaments left for me to hang up high.

What do you think? They did a pretty good job, didn’t they? (Just ignore the bare spot around the bottom ~ wink, wink)

Speaking of creative trees, check out BeAGoodDad’s very cool idea for a Christmas tree when you have little ones around.

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Relinquishing Control of the Christmas Tree