{"id":59645,"date":"2009-12-02T11:12:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T16:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/?p=134378"},"modified":"2009-12-02T11:12:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T16:12:43","slug":"light-bulb-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/59645","title":{"rendered":"Light Bulb Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am always looking for easy to make unique ornaments to make and share with you. Here is one cute ornament you can make and hang on your tree. It takes very little time and material to complete. I don&#8217;t think I have ever seen a project like this, working with light bulbs. Now that is a very different idea.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_134380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 385px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-134380\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.blisstree.com\/files\/2009\/12\/lbsanta.jpg\" alt=\"Kathy Zengolewicz\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathy Zengolewicz<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Here is what you will need to get started:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>One lightbulb, using a burned out bulb will work<\/li>\n<li>Acrylic paints in red, white, flesh toned, black and blue (you can use paint markers or plain markers for the blue eyes, black eye shape and beard highlights<\/li>\n<li>paint brushes<\/li>\n<li>rubbing alcohol or an ammonia window cleaner<\/li>\n<li>white or red chenille stem or pipe cleaner for the hanger<\/li>\n<li>scrap material for the hat<\/li>\n<li>A jingle bell or pom pom for the end of the hat<\/li>\n<li>scrap white material for hat trim<\/li>\n<li>hot glue or craft glue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>First, clean the lightbulb thoroughly with the alcohol or window cleaner. This will take off any grease or fingerprints and help the paint to adhere to the bulb.<\/p>\n<p>Pain the bulb white, let it dry and give it a second coat. When the second coat dries, paint an oval for the face area with the flesh toned paint. Let it dry thoroughly.<\/p>\n<p>When that&#8217;s dry, paint the facial features by copying for the photo. Add white whiskers around the face to create a large mustache. Add a thin red line right below the mustache to form the lips. Add two red circle shape for the cheeks.<\/p>\n<p>Use either black paint, paint marker or plain marker to make an outline of the eyes. Also, add some faint black lines in the mustache and beard to define the shape.<\/p>\n<p>Next, take a scrap of red felt and cut in a triangle to make the hat. You can get 12 x 12 pieces of felt in the craft store for about 75 cents. Stitch up the felt and sew a jingle bell or glue a pom pom on the pointed end of the hat, then trim with a piece of white material.<\/p>\n<p>Twist the chenille stem around the bottom of the metal base, on the bulb, above the face then twist the two ends together to form a hanger. Push the hat down and glue in place.<\/p>\n<p>Once the glue is dry you can hang your Santa on your tree. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/light-bulb-santa\/\">Light Bulb Santa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am always looking for easy to make unique ornaments to make and share with you. Here is one cute ornament you can make and hang on your tree. It takes very little time and material to complete. I don&#8217;t think I have ever seen a project like this, working with light bulbs. Now that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}