Altered Light

Who likes those gold standard chandeliers that come in every apartment or house?!

No one.. so i wanted to see if I could transform it.

First: Remove the bulbs and unattach it from the ceiling.

Part of me wanted to be able to reattach it and reuse in the dining room

 but the wires weren't long enough to hang it over the table.

Next: Take apart the pieces and individually sand the metal so that the spray paint can be absorbed. Then spray Rust Oleum glossy (black in this case) evenly over the entire lamp. If you hang it to paint it is much easier to get an even look all the way around.

Using one of these is really handy for no getting paint all over you hands and cheap, $3!

Also, remember that if you want the chain to match to spray it hanging and then flip and do the same for no spots.

Then: When it is dry completely put the pieces back together and hang in the house. I repurposed mine to be a candleabra which turned out pretty good as you can see.

Finding candles that fit are more difficult because the holes are smaller, but we tried shaving a bit off the end and turning them upside down since the wick was on both sides.



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No Thorns

Fake cloth flowers always seem to look very fake and I really don't have a green thumb so I decided to make some out of plastic.

Inspiration:

First: Gather a few things:

Plastic Spoons

Candle and Lighter

Hot Glue Gun and Sticks

Then: Carefully hold spoons over the candle for about 10 seconds and it begins to melt, but it you do it too long then the spoons burn black. The center pieces are held with the spoon down and the outer petals are done by holding the spoon normally. After all the petals are formed hot glue it together. I spray painted mine because I used clear spoons that we had laying around.

Inspiration in Action:

Finally: Finding something to do with these flowers... well I have seen them mainly used as a broche with a pin hot glued to the back, but I was thinking more towards decor like the picture below:

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Where are all the forks?

Since we had an extra set of silverware and it had a more antique handle we thought that it would be great to repurpose.

Inspiration in Action:

 I am really trying to find those white bleeding candles, but it isn't really the season just yet.

For inspiration I looked up some ideas and found two that really STICK out:

 

First: Gather the necessary items

Forks

1 Saucer

Pair of Pliers

Optional - spray paint

Then: Bend the forks and potentially spray paint to match decor.

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Vinyl Repurposed - Clock

Vinyl Record Craze! I need to time device and I feel like I should stick with the music theme...

After the dessert stand I had confidence that it could be molded enough to look like it is melting and here is how it went:

Gather the necessities:                    

Neutral Milk Hotel Vinyl Record

Clock mechanism (comes with hands)

New clock hands if you prefer

First: Attaining the materials were pretty easy this time.

 Micah already had the record and Hobby Lobby had the time pieces for a reasonable price so this project remained fairly cheap.

Next: Heat the oven to 200 degrees and begin the slow process of pulling the record gently and slowly while wearing an oven mit. Do not pull to hard because towards the end it gets very easy to tear.

Finally: Attach the clock hands, add a battery and place it on the correct time.

After it was assembled I hung it on the mantle.

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Vinyl Repurposed - Stand

Let the projects begin! Interior decor personalized by the owner is the perfect color and fit...

The inspiration is a dessert stand:

First: Gather the necessary pieces:

two vinyl records

metal parts

Easy right?! Well the records were passed down from Samuel Denton who has a love for music so there were quite a few to pick from. Elton John had a great picture and Willie Nelson seemed fitting.

The metal parts were not so simple. I searched all of the craft stores and even tried to make it work with random parts that I thought might fit together from Home Depot. So plan B was in effect, find a cheap dessert stand and use those pieces and that is exactly what we did. At Home Goods there was one dessert stand to choose from which had cute cupcakes with faces, no need to say but those plates were trashed.

Next: Replace the bottom plate with a record. Then do the same with the top, but then the records would be the same size so it seems like they must have used a 45 vinyl instead (but that has a wider opening so there was a dilemma).

Solution: Heat the oven to 200 degrees to get the record pliable and for the five seconds that it is hot cut the record with scissors and precision. This goes on for a while, but eventually it was even and we were able to attach it to the top.

Finally: Turn off the oven and place desserts on stand.



The inspiration is action:

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