It’s Christmas crafting time! Which means an immediate trip to arc thrift stores. I bought a lot of supplies for a lot of different Christmas crafts. There are already so many holiday items out at the store!

I spotted this interesting glass globe for only $3.49 and immediately thought of a snow globe. I’ve used jars from arc for globes in the past and wanted to try again with this cool piece. The base unscrews from the glass dome, allowing me to get fun, winter decorations inside.

Among all of the Christmas decorations and bags that I purchased, one was this big bag of tiny trees for $2.99. I knew these would be perfect inside the snow globe plus many more of my other planned holiday crafts. Buying craft supplies at arc thrift is a great money-saver. I always get much more for my money than I do at the large craft stores.

I started by hot-gluing two trees from my arc bag onto the base of the globe: a silver glitter tree and a green tree. Glitter is a mainstay all over my house during holiday craft season.

I found a little gnome to go with the trees in my random bits of crafting supplies at home, most of which have been purchased from arc thrift stores in the past.

One of the other winter crafting mainstays that I bought at arc was fake snow, another source of Christmas glitter. Check out that $1.29 price tag next to the original craft store price of $6.99. Arc prices for the win!

I poured some of the snow into the base and then screwed the glass globe on tight.

Flipping this guy over distributes the snow and then it’s good to go. The easiest Christmas craft on earth, the gnome snow globe. Thanks to arc thrift this was a one-stop, low-budget project.