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(Describer) By pine cones and Christmas ornaments, a sphere filled with white clouds of fabric has a tiny flickering light in the center. Title: How to make a Magic Snowglobe.

(host) To make this awesome ball of icy magic, here is what you'll need: You will need some sparkly white tulle, or if you're going for a different color scheme, you can use whatever color you would like. You will also need a plastic snow globe ornament like the one used in the crystal ball tutorial. You will need a pair of scissors. You will also need a flameless tea candle that flickers. I'm using a black one that I had left over from Halloween, but if you have a white flameless candle, that would probably work better if you are using white tulle. To make this magical snow globe, the first thing you'll want to do is take your tulle and measure out a couple feet of that.

(Describer) She unrolls a ribbon of the sheer sparkly fabric.

Then, cut it with your scissors.

(Describer) She cuts through it.

Once you have a fair amount of tulle cut, you can go ahead and grab your candle. If you're going to use this prop right away, you can turn it on. If not, you can go ahead and turn your candle off. I'm going to leave it off for now. Take that tulle that you just cut out and wrap your light in it.

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(Describer) In fast-motion, she wraps the little tealight and its round black base, turning it over and over through layers of tulle (tool).

(Describer) She wraps it until the base is well-covered.

You can set that aside for now and grab some more tulle. Roll out a couple more feet of this and cut it. I actually came to the end of my roll, so I'm just going to pull it off.

(Describer) She pulls off the rest. Title: I may have used some of it to decorate the house a bit... hehehe.

Once you have a mass of tulle all over the place and sparkles getting all over your mom's floor, grab your ornament, take the bottom pieces off, and just shove some of that tulle inside of there. You don't need too much, just a little.

(Describer) She shoves the tulle into the clear globe, which is big enough to fit her hand into. The bunched-up tulle takes up about half the space inside.

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When you have a little bit of tulle shoved into your Christmas ornament, take your light, and you can again turn it on if you are ready to use it. I think I'll turn it on now just to show you what it looks like. You may have to struggle a bit to find the on/off button once it's all wrapped up in the tulle, but it's not too hard. You'll get it. Turn it on. Now take that and put it in your ornament.

(Describer) The little tealight flickers through the layers of fabric.

Because I have made this before, I have some more tulle laying around, but you will want to cut some more for this next part. Take some more of that sparkly tulle and place it inside of your globe. You don't want to be able to see the base of the tea light.

(Describer) She points out some of the black base showing through and adds more of the crumpled tulle.

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(Describer) She adds more, turning the globe to check that the tulle fills an even amount of space.

Now that you have a bunch of tulle shoved into your snow globe, make sure that the base of the tea light is facing down; that way, you have easy access to the on/off switch. You might need to reach in there and try to get it into position. Just look around on your orb and check to make sure that you can't see the base of the tea light too well in any area. I can see it a little bit right there, so I can take my tulle and move it around a bit, and then it's not so much of an issue. Once you are satisfied with the look of things, you can take the bottom pieces of your snow globe and put them back on.

(Describer) She puts on an inner cap that fits inside the opening and another that screws on top. Both are white and provide the globe's base.

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And now you have a really cool crystal ball, sort of magical globe, sort of snow globe thing to set as a centerpiece of your table, or use it as a wicked sweet cosplay prop or a costume prop. If you're cosplaying as any sort of character or creature that has ice powers, or lives in an icy area or whatever, this would be a perfect prop to have on hand, but it also works great for a wizard staff, too, if you want to mount it on top of your staff. It works really cool with some sort of magical ice power. If you want to hold it, you can be like, rahr! Yeah. Or you can bunch up a bunch of tulle around your hand like this. ¶Whoa, magical ice powers! It looks kind of amazing, don't you think?

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