Ornament #7 – Bottle Cap Snowman

For the past 26 years I’ve collected Santas and Snowmen as part of my holiday decor.  Each collection has exceeded the number of surfaces in my house, so now I alternate years when I display them.  Obviously when I saw these guys on Pinterest and knew I just had to make a set of them.

I gathered bottle caps, white spray paint, my glue gun, acrylic paint, buttons, twine and fleece scraps.

First I spray painted the bottle caps white and let them dry.  Then I fired up my glue gun, ran a bead of glue down the back of each bottle cap and laid the twine in the glue.  I cut the twine longer than the height of the three bottle caps and was able to loop the excess back and glue it to the top cap.  I also placed a bead of glue between each cap where they touched to keep them from twisting.  After that I painted on the eyes, nose, mouth and buttons.  Finally I wrapped a piece of scrap fleece around the neck and hot glued a button to the scarf.

These would also make great decorative tags for gifts.

Item #29 – Complete all the achievements of the 7 Minute Workout.

In this blog post, I shared my Quest46-Item #2 – Lose the rest of my weight and increase my fitness.  This is one of the ways I plan to do that.  I downloaded a free app to my iPhone called the Seven Minute Workout.  I learned about this workout through a fellow blogger.  It’s 12 exercises that you perform for 7 minutes and your progression depends on your fitness level.  I was drawn to this program because of the time requirement – everybody has 7 minutes – and because they’re all exercises I know how to do.  I may not “be able” to do all of them well, but I “know how” to do them.  The app has 29 achievements that you work through by doing the 7 minute workouts.  I’m more successful with exercise when I’m working towards a goal.

Question of the Day:  Have you ever made a snowman from real snow?

Remember to enter the giveaway – here’s how:

1)  Leave a comment on each day’s post by answering my “Question of the Day”.  The “Question of the Day” will be right above my closing.
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2)  Over the course of this blog series, you can enter a maximum of 30 times.

On December 1, 2014, I will have a random drawing for one (1) lucky winner.  I will contact the winner for their mailing details and will mail to anywhere in the world.

Links to {30 Days of Christmas Ornaments}
Ornament #1
Ornament #2
Ornament #3
Ornament #4
Ornament #5
Ornament #6

We are ready to be your workout partners.  Mindy can sit on your feet while you do crunches, Woody can do step ups with you and I (Ellie) will lie right next to you when you do planks.  And I’ll try not to lick your face.