These photo snow globes make the sweetest handmade gifts 🎄💖 #diy #gift #christmas | At Home With Shannon

ad There’s something so magical about handmade Christmas crafts, so I turned old jars into glowing DIY snow globes ✨❄️ A bit of glitter, water glycerine for that slow snowfall, tiny model-village characters, and some LED lights on top to bring them to life. To make them extra special as table gifts, I used my @cricut_uk to create little bows and name tags (Cricut Explore 4 — aka the machine that saves me HOURS every Christmas 👀). With over a million ready-to-cut designs within the design space

In 1955, handmade globes were crafted with remarkable precision and artistry, blending cartography with skilled craftsmanship! The process began with a hollow sphere, often made of papier-mâché or a lightweight wooden core. Skilled artisans would then carefully apply gores—narrow, curved strips of printed paper bearing detailed map sections—aligned precisely to avoid distortion. These gores were often hand-colored or printed using copperplate engraving techniques, then glued onto the sphere by h