DIY: Winter Luminaries

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I came across these easy to make luminaries and thought they’d make a nice winter project!

The idea and instructions come from the Songbird website.

Gather These Supplies

Mason jars

Mod Podge Satin

Epsom salt

Fir branches – collected and trimmed to size with scissors

Small wood slices

Twine

Scissors

Hot glue gun and glue sticks

Flameless candles

Paintbrushes

Spoon

There’s a three-step process to this project. You’re going to prepare the jars, then Mod Podge and salt them, and then add the embellishments. It’s relatively easy!

Prepare the Jars

Basically, you’ll need to make sure that the jars are washed and clean so that the Mod Podge sticks. You have two options:

Clean the glass with mild soap and warm water and let dry

Clean the glass with rubbing alcohol and cotton balls (or similar) and let dry

The reason for the prep is because oils and dirt can get onto glass and stay there, and they can cause problems if you try to Mod Podge the glass. By “problems,” I mean the Podge won’t stick. So please clean the glass before moving on!

Mod Podge and Epsom Salt

I used Mod Podge Satin for this project. You can use any formula really, but I recommend either Satin, Gloss, or Matte. You won’t see the finish of the Mod Podge, so it doesn’t really matter.

Put your epsom salt out on a plate on your work surface.

Paint a medium layer of Mod Podge on the jar in consistent, quick strokes. You want to work quickly because Mod Podge starts to dry pretty quickly, and you don’t want to have to do a bunch of layering of the salt. It will get clumpy on your final luminaries.

Roll the jar in the epsom salt, all the way around. Push down slightly. Bring it up out of the epsom salt.

Use a spoon to pour salt over areas of the jar that may not have gotten salt.

You can also use a small paintbrush to add to blank areas and then sprinkle a little salt on it. Just be careful not to add too much Mod Podge. Clumping salt doesn’t look great, especially with votives.

Keep in mind that if you miss a few areas, it will be hardly noticeable! Let your luminaries dry for several hours.

Adding Embellishments

Cut a length of twine that is long enough to wrap around the jar mouth around 6 – 7 times.

Start wrapping. Tie it once at the halfway point, then tie it again at the end. Tie the twine into a bow.

Use a hot glue gun to attach the branches to the front of your luminaries. Then place the small wood pieces on the front.

Place the LED tea lights into your new mason jar luminaries for a warm glow! You can also use real tea lights if you like, given that the epsom salt and Mod Podge are on the outside of the jar.

SOURCE: SONGBIRD

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      1. Share as many as you like! I have 44 pages, each of which has 25 pictures….just of miscellaneous memes. Then there are the folders that may have a lot, like my Sarcasm and Gif folders…tbh, I don’t really know how many. I’ve got all the memes/pics from the opens I’ve done for the last few years as well.

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  3. Garland was on Fox talking about this….on this one, they are correct – I recall thinking at the time that those cops cared more about themselves!

    EXCERPT: “UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Police officials who responded to the deadly Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting waited far too long to confront the gunman, acted with “no urgency” in establishing a command post and repeatedly communicated inaccurate information to grieving families, according to a Justice Department report released Thursday that identifies “cascading failures” in law enforcement’s handling of the massacre.

    The Justice Department report, the most comprehensive federal accounting of the maligned police response to the May 24, 2022, shooting at Robb Elementary School, catalogs a sweeping array of training, communication, leadership and technology problems that federal officials say contributed to the crisis lasting far longer than necessary. All the while, the report says, terrified students inside the classrooms called 911 and agonized parents begged officers to go in.

    “I told the families gathered last night what I hope is clear among the hundreds of pages and thousands of details in this report: Their loved ones deserved better,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a news conference in Uvalde on Thursday after briefing family members on the Justice Department’s findings.

    Even for a mass shooting that has already been the subject of intense scrutiny and in-depth examinations — an earlier report by Texas lawmakers, for instance, faulted law enforcement at every level with failing “to prioritize saving innocent lives over their own safety” — the nearly 600-page Justice Department report adds to the public understanding of how police failed to stop an attack that killed 19 children and two staff members.

    The report underscores how police made a costly error in assuming that the shooter was barricaded, or otherwise contained or dead, even as he continued to fire shots. That mistaken “mindset permeated throughout much of the incident response” as police, rather than rushing inside the classrooms to end the carnage, waited nearly an hour to confront the gunman in what the report called a costly “lack of urgency.” …..

    https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-school-shooting-justice-department-report-police-16b59efa5c5015d685d917c3f0f26256

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    1. This just kills me – these people who think plants and nature have more “rights” than human beings!!! WTF is she smoking, ’cause I want to make sure to avoid it!!!

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  5. Aw, shit…the snow had really slowed down and now it’s picked back up again, even heavier! Grrrr….I’ve got ice cycles hanging off my patio roof, and everything on my table out there is wet/frozen, as is the floor mat in front of the doors. I had to pry Wheezer’s food dish off! Good thing I’ve got more cans of sealant! I will put that to good use when it warms up in the spring! I didn’t mind the drips so much before because they weren’t this bad.

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  10. Holy shit! It is snowing buckets and my neighbor, Mark, just had to pull someone in a small SUV out of the ditch on the other side of our joint driveway! The ditch is on a direct line from my arbor to the road – look at that power pole, how high the snow is! The flakes are much bigger and thicker, the pics don’t show how heavy it’s coming down.

    Oran’s DW is covered again, as is mine!

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      1. It’s quit snowing for now but the wind has come up….more drifting. Just got off the phone w/Mom – they got 2-3″ and it was starting to get windy there, too. She managed to get her car cleared off and drove to the store yesterday. Can’t keep her down!!! Never have been able to stop her from driving, no matter the conditions! LOL

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  12. “Why Gain of Function is the Greatest Threat to Humanity”
    CLANDESTINE
    JAN 18, 2024

    “Scientists took a bat coronavirus, added the human ACE-2 receptor so it could be rapidly transmitted to humans, and made vaccines for it just in case it happened naturally. But then the pathogen THEY made “leaked,” and the “vaccines” they made for the virus didn’t even work.

    Which begs the question, what exactly is the benefit of gain of function research?

    Not only is gain of function research failing at preventing pandemics… it is CREATING the pandemics. They failed their mission AND killed 7+ million people around the globe in the process, and then covered it up and lied about it.

    Gain of function research is the greatest threat to humanity and it’s not even close.”

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    1. 😲😖😞😡😡😡😡😡

      “Bunag’s attorney, Assistant Federal Public Defender Jacquelyn T. Esser, wrote that Bunag suffers from “religious trauma” that causes individuals “delayed social milestones and sexual dysfunction.”

      Bunag was denied a “normal outlet for sexual exploration during his early pubescent years, he viewed his own homosexual desires as wrong, hindering his proper maturation,” according to Esser.

      “It emphasizes that LGBTQIA+ individuals, in particular, like Mr. Bunag, may encounter challenges experiencing social milestones, such as first dates or kisses, until adulthood. Recognizing these difficulties is crucial for understanding Mr. Bunag’s actions in this case,” wrote Esser in a Jan. 12 exhibit attached to her sentencing memorandum. “By identifying his trauma and understanding the root cause of his actions, we enable Mr. Bunag to embark on a healing journey and undergo rehabilitation, thereby reducing the likelihood of recidivism.”

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  14. NF: I wouldn’t normally post a CNN video but…
    “We all knew this already. All the officers on the scene stood around with their thumbs up their ass, waiting for their boss to tell them what to do. Meanwhile, they could hear the gunshots – and the screams of the children – right on the other side of the wall. Merely a few feet away from multiple officers, with full ballistic armor, and ballistic shields, and enough firepower to subdue a dozen armed terrorists. But did anyone do anything? No. Why? Because nobody told them what to do next. I have no more words…

    Actually that’s not fair at all. They did stuff:

    — They handcuffed people who did try to go in and do something.
    — They also took videos of themselves putzing around while children died.
    — Don’t forget they went into the school and grabbed their own children.
    — One officer on his phone was talking to his wife who was teacher that also got killed.
    — And the other cops tackled him to stop him from going to save his wife.

    I mean god damnit the shooter had body guards…I have no more words…”

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  15. LOL

    Clarion
    January 18, 2024 4:30 pm

    I was just wondering about this. I could not recall how it came about that he chose her, but I thought I remembered his explaining it at one time.

    Trump Explains the Only Reason He Chose Haley to Be UN Ambassador

    Former President Trump said the only reason he chose Nikki Haley to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations was so Henry McMaster, her lieutenant governor at the time, could become governor of South Carolina.

    “Nikki Haley is a disaster,” he told supporters at a campaign rally in Atkinson, New Hampshire. “She worked for me for a long time. I know her very well. I actually put her there for a different reason.

    “I shouldn’t say this, but she had a lieutenant governor named Henry McMaster, who is fantastic,” the 45th president continued. “I figured if I took her out of the South Carolina governorship, put her someplace, any place, I put her someplace, then Henry McMaster, who is my friend and has turned out to be a great governor in South Carolina, Henry McMaster will become the governor. So, I moved her to the United Nations. And, honestly, she was not a good negotiator. She was not a good negotiator.”

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/01/18/trump-explains-the-only-reason-he-put-haley-in-un-position-n2633815

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  16. Donald J. Trump

    @realDonaldTrump

    A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES MUST HAVE FULL IMMUNITY, WITHOUT WHICH IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM/HER TO PROPERLY FUNCTION. ANY MISTAKE, EVEN IF WELL INTENDED, WOULD BE MET WITH ALMOST CERTAIN INDICTMENT BY THE OPPOSING PARTY AT TERM END. EVEN EVENTS THAT “CROSS THE LINE” MUST FALL UNDER TOTAL IMMUNITY, OR IT WILL BE YEARS OF TRAUMA TRYING TO DETERMINE GOOD FROM BAD. THERE MUST BE CERTAINTY. EXAMPLE: YOU CAN’T STOP POLICE FROM DOING THE JOB OF STRONG & EFFECTIVE CRIME PREVENTION BECAUSE YOU WANT TO GUARD AGAINST THE OCCASIONAL “ROGUE COP” OR “BAD APPLE.” SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO LIVE WITH “GREAT BUT SLIGHTLY IMPERFECT.” ALL PRESIDENTS MUST HAVE COMPLETE & TOTAL PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY, OR THE AUTHORITY & DECISIVENESS OF A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WILL BE STRIPPED & GONE FOREVER. HOPEFULLY THIS WILL BE AN EASY DECISION. GOD BLESS THE SUPREME COURT!

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      1. What we got today was what they have predicted for tomorrow – wonder if it will be twice the amount they predicted tomorrow, just like we got twice what they predicted for today….sigh….I’ve had enough of this white shit!!!

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  18. “European Parliament votes to keep secret Pfizer contracts withheld from public: Leaked Pfizer contracts revealed that governments surrendered their citizens’ legal rights in exchange for access to a failed mRNA gene therapy that was once labeled the “miracle cure” to Covid-19.”
    JORDAN SCHACHTEL
    JAN 18, 2024

    EXCERPT: “European Members of Parliament (MEPs) have voted to keep its contracts with Pfizer and other Covid-19 “vaccine” companies a secret, successfully blocking public access to vital data regarding the EU’s dealings with shady Big Pharma enterprises. In a vote 254-349 vote that defeated the transparency measure, a coalition of Davos-aligned parties prevailed in stopping the contract information from becoming widely available.

    The scandal began when news surfaced that Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, had negotiated a backchannel mRNA injection deal with Pfizer’s Albert Bourla, which reaped massive profits for the pharmaceutical company.

    The EU-Pfizer contract saga, which came to be known as “PfizerGate” in the European media, allowed for Pfizer to reportedly take on zero vaccine injury risk through an uncompetitive, clandestine negotiation that immensely enriched the Pharma giant.

    The “center-right” European Peoples Party made up the greatest coalition of “no” votes, followed by the “centrist” Renew Party and the “center-left” Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D). These parties by and large represent the interests of the Davos class, with no room for serious debate about the major issues that concern Europe.

    There was much more ideological diversity in the parties that failed to pass the motion. The right wing Eurosceptic European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and Identity and Democracy (ID) parties voted for the transparency measures. So too did the socialist The Left and The Greens parties. Non-attached independent members also almost unanimously supported the measures.

    Previously Pfizer contracts have revealed that governments had effectively surrendered their citizens’ legal rights in exchange for access to what was once labeled as something akin to a miracle cure. In country after country, Pfizer was provided complete legal indemnity without the consent of the people. Now, with the “miracle cure” declarations revealed as a massive fraud upon humanity, lawmakers in Europe and around the world want to sweep their dealings with Pfizer under the rug.”

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  24. This is how he does it everywhere…..

    01/18/24 • BIG ENERGY › VIEWS
    “Bill Gates Set Up 20 Shell Companies to Hide Purchase of $113 Million of Nebraska Farmland: The limited liability companies, buried under layers of business names, overlapping employees and addresses in at least three states, form a network more tangled and opaque than the one created by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is buying a giant amount of Nebraska ranch land.”
    By Investigate Midwest/Destiny Herbers, Flatwater Free Press

    EXCERPT: “A glance at federal records shows the series of Nebraska farms listed as foreign-owned, though there’s no country attached and no hint that these farms with unassuming names might be related. Willowdale Farms, Merrick County Farms, Dove Haven Ranch, Champion Valley Farm, Schroder Family Farms and many more are concentrated in northeast Nebraska but spread to the southeast corner and west nearly to Wyoming.

    In Nebraska’s business records, they have one similarity: Each farm’s office address leads to a single-story brick building in the St. Louis suburbs, an office park housing a dentist, lawyers and, until recently, a farmland investment startup called AgCoA. For years, AgCoA was owned by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, a government-owned group managing the retirement funds of 21 million Canadians.

    But in 2017, the Canadian board decided to offload a half-billion dollar chunk of its American farmland portfolio — including all 22,830 acres of its Nebraska land. The buyer of those unassuming-sounding Nebraska farms wasn’t publicly listed. Until now, the financial details of the transaction and the gargantuan loan he’s taken out against it have remained publicly unknown.

    The buyer’s name: Bill Gates….”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bill-gates-hide-purchase-nebraska-farmland/

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  25. NF: Bear in mind, this is Newsweek…

    EXCERPT: “Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently spoke about new plans to change the way vaccines are administered, created and distributed around the globe.

    While appearing on CNBC TV18 in India, Gates was asked how he sees vaccine manufacturing around the globe amid different tech and health care advancements. “We make sure, for all these vaccines, that there’s enough capacity, that there’s competition so the prices keep going down,” Gates said. “And we will have new vaccines. We’ll have a TB [tuberculosis] vaccine, malaria vaccine, HIV vaccine.”

    As Gates continued, he spoke about the COVID-19 vaccine and explained ways it could change. “We need to make them have longer duration, more coverage,” he said. “And we’re gonna change, instead of using a needle, to use a little patch.”

    Gates’ comments came shortly after he spoke at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and announced that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to spend more than $8 billion to help develop new technology in health care, according to Bloomberg.

    In November, Reuters reported that Micron Biomedical, a pharmaceutical company based in the U.S., received a $23.6 million donation from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in an effort to develop vaccine patches, instead of using a needle, as he mentioned Thursday.

    Following the rollout of the different COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S., many conspiracy theories surrounded Gates, with anti-vaxxers claiming that he had microchips placed in the vaccines….”

    https://www.newsweek.com/bill-gates-reveals-plan-change-vaccines-1862028

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  27. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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