DIY Sparkly Pinecones

These DIY silver sparkly pinecones are a gorgeous, yet simple decoration for the holidays! Place them in a pretty bowl or on a tray, and watch them glitter! 

I am a huge fan of anything that glitters.

When I walk into a store and there are a bunch of sparkly things, I can’t help but head in that direction to take a closer look.

Sparkles make me go a little crazy.

So of course, I had my eye on all of these glittery pinecones that I was seeing all over the stores.

Now I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned it, but I have a little brother who’s 12 years younger than me. Yeah…BIG age gap.

He recently got a part-time job, but before that, he was DESPERATE to make money.

I felt kinda sorry for the kid and I needed some assistance with some tedious tasks from time to time….

SO I used to pay him to do little things like updating my workout playlist, and scan receipts for my work expenses. All that fun stuff.

My mom used him in a similar way to do little time consuming tasks around the yard.

Like picking up pinecones.

He would get paid a bit of money to pick up pinecones off of the yard and collect them in a bucket.

So one day, I happened to go into the garage and I saw this big bucket of pinecones just sitting there.

So I asked my mom what she was going with them. “Throw them out”, she said.

What?!! Those pretty little gems?

I wasn’t going to let that happen.

I had some silver and sparkly spray paint leftover from my DIY Glam Pumpkins that I made for fall, so I decided to put it to good use and glam up my pinecones too!

For the first ones, I just kept them au natural and dipped the edges in some Martha Stewart’s glitter glue. And next, I just rolled the pinecones in some of Martha Stewart’s white gold glitter.

Good ol’ Martha.

I spray painted the other half of pinecones with silver spray paint. Once it was dry, once again, I rolled the edges of the pinecones in the glitter glue. And once again, rolled them in the glitter.

If I missed any spots, I just picked up some of the glitter and sprinkled it onto the exposed glue. I strongly recommend that you do this activity over a big bowl or tray on some newspaper. It’s a little messy.

Next, I sprayed them with a clear varnish to ensure that the sparkles didn’t go flying everywhere.

Not that I mind a little glitter…

So here’s what you need to make these sparkly pinecones!

Required Supplies:

• Pinecones
• Martha Stewart’s Glitter Glue
• Martha Stewart’s White Gold Glitter
• Silver spray paint
• Clear spray varnish

Have fun and keep sparkling!!! ;)

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