Craft Project: Gold Leaf Candleholders

I am not a crafty person. Occasionally I start a project, but I rarely finish. However, when I came across this idea on Martha Stewart's website, I was inspired. How hard could it be to glue some leaves on a glass candle holder? 

Answer: Not hard at all. It took me no more than five minutes, start to finish. 

I bought the sparkly gold leaves (figured they would last better than real ones) and the glass jars at AC Moore. I wanted to buy autumn-colored leaves that looked real, but apparently AC Moore thinks that autumn is over already and Christmas is tomorrow. Oh well. The leaves were on stems, so I cut them off.

Since I don't own any spray adhesive, I dug out the glue gun, which hadn't seen the light of day since pre-wedding. I did not take pictures of the actual process because I don't trust myself to hold a glue gun and a camera at the same time. 

 But the end result was this! 

If I did it again, I might try using spray adhesive since the glue gun doesn't adhere to glass very well. It works, but I did have to re-glue two leaves. 

And that, friends, is my craft project for the month/year. I plan to use my lovely candleholders on my table for Thanksgiving and probably Christmas too.