I've made something similar but a bit more lazy - I took the tops from stick solar lights and dropped them over the top of a glass biscuit jar. You can fill it with sand, leaves, stones - anything that reflects the season, or a feeling you want to portray. You can google sun-jar to get different ideas
http://putitinajar.com/2013/10/02/diy-s ... -tutorial/

It's snowed so hard here I can't find where I parked my unicorn....