Best DIY Projects For Home Decorating: Gumball Machine Turned Snow Globe

While decorating for Christmas this year I decided to keep myself on a budget. I shopped my home looking for things I could repurpose and make into something festive.

Since it was always sitting there empty, and she was getting a bit too old for it, I decided to make it over.
I took it all apart, and threw away the inner gumball dispensing parts. Then I spray painted the base, body, and cap with Rust-Oleum's White Gloss.
I found a broken snow globe type thing at JoAnn's for a dollar (a tree had become uprooted in an apparently violent storm of glitter snow), and since I didn't want the globe (just the house inside it) it was perfect.
I set the house inside the gumball machine and filled it with loose faux snow that I found at Target.
I then put the cap back on, tied on a bow, and set it by my Christmas tree.