Step 6 Using a small paint brush, brush your
candy cane lightly with glue, then dust with glitter (I used silver.) Shake off excess glitter and re-fluff your candy cane by running it between your fingers, allowing some of the glitter to fall off. You don't want huge clumps of glitter—just a light dusting.
Step 7 Let glue and glitter dry. Step 8 Repeat many times, making as many candy canes as you want!
Step 1
Gather your pipe cleaners in red and white. I used the thicker fuzzier ones, but the thinner traditional size will work as well. These can be purchased at large discount stores and craft stores.
Step 2 Soak your pipe cleaners in a hot-tea bath for a vintage look. (I used several family-size tea bags in a big stew pot of boiling water. To keep my pipe-cleaners from rising to the top, I placed a regular dinner plate in the pot to hold them down.) Let soak for 1-2 hours. (If you would like, add a tid bit of vinegar to help the tea color set.)
Step 3 Drain all the tea off your pipe cleaners, then gently squeeze out some of their excess liquid—but not too much. They need to still be fairly wet for Step 4.
Step 4 Place pipe cleaners in clothes dryer and dry for 10-15 minutes on high heat. Make sure to include a fabric softener sheet. This will help set the tea stain further and fluff your pipe cleaners back up. Letting them air dry will take longer and result in a wimpier pipe cleaner.
Step 5 Twist 1 “white” and 1 red dry and fluffy
pipe cleaner together and bend into a candy-cane shape. (If you want to make smaller candy canes like these shown, cut each pipe cleaner in half before twisting.)
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Jerusalem Greer has a hard time writing her bio because she cannot figure out how to sum up her life in a few titles. She also feels overly self-important even thinking that she is beyond titles, therefore she is at an impasse. So here are few facts that might provide insight if not explanation: She is married to her Sweet Man of 14 years, has 2 amazingly creative and very messy boys, 1 dog, 1 hamster, 1 toad and 1 hedgehog. As a family, they are planning (hoping, fingers crossed) to adopt 2 little girls next year as she feels she needs some allies in the gender department. Her favorite phrase currently is toute de suite even though she doesn't love what it means, just how it sounds. She thinks it should mean Too Sweet, so she is likely to use it that way even though it is wrong. She loves yoga, wraparound sweaters, camping, eating rotisserie chicken with her fingers and finding free stuff on the side of the road. Her favorite part of designing is seeing what was just before in her imagination come to life for others to enjoy. You can always find Jerusalem blogging and creating at http://jollygoodegal.com