She Glued Marbles To A Foam Ball. What She Makes? WOW! Now She Keeps It Outside And It's Amazing!
By Timfly
Blogger Jennifer Priest showed us how to make a beautiful gazing ball for her garden! It looks incredible when it's finished and placed in the garden
“People have been gluing flat back marbles onto things and calling it art since the 1980s,” Jennifer wrote on her blog post about the project. “Question is, what can’t flat back glass marbles do? Why not make a gazing ball the same way?”
You will need:
flat marbles, hot glue, and “smoothfoam” balls.
“Smoothfoam has a flat, smooth surface that is easy to glue and paint,” Jennifer wrote, explaining that it’s different from Styrofoam, which would be way harder to use because it melts easily and absorbs the paint.
She then started by painting the smaller of her two foam balls.
She chose a color similar to the marbles.
After the paint had dried, she warmed up the glue gun and started adding the marbles, smooth side facing towards the ball of course.
Jennifer tried to keep the marbles as close to each other as possible, but the paint is for the gaps that can’t be avoided.
That’s the last step she had to complete to make her first gazing ball!
Once it was finished, she repeated the process with her larger ball.
Obviously, she had to plan accordingly with the marbles and get enough to cover both surface areas.
Now that both spheres are complete she put them in the backyard garden!
They look so good in the space, and just as nice as store-bought garden decor that can get high in price.
Check out her blog for more on this project.
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