For today's ornament I made snowmen out of melted hot glue, an orange pipe cleaner, some scrapbook paper and some beads. At first I tried squirting the glue from the glue gun onto foil but that wasn't looking so great so I switched methods. I cut the glue sticks into pieces around 1/4 of an inch thick (maybe just a bit smaller). I put them in a sort of round shape on non stick foil on a cookie sheet. Then I put them in the oven which I had preheated to 400* (f). This melted the glue in under 5 minutes. (to watch it closely I just kept the oven opened a little and watched it melt. After it was done melting I took it out and put in the beads for the eyes and mouth and the pipe cleaner "carrot" nose. Then I used a clear bead at the top to make a hole to put the string through. After all that I cut out some scrapbook paper scarves and glued on. I also added the buttons for an accent on the scarf. Again this wasn't my own idea. It was suggested to me by a friend at work.
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