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A Little Room For Creativity All of my efforts these past 3 months have gone into house rehab and re organizing my things in storage leaving little time for my creative projects. Since the rooms will be rented I avoided all artistic or personal touch. Boring old brown and white paint by the gallons. Finally an opportunity to add a couple of touches. One of the bedrooms and the loft do not have electrical wiring for ceiling fixtures. I had always used hanging lamps for the main light. Somewhere along the line these fixtures were damaged and not replaced. When I priced what was currently available I decided "no way" . Seemed it was impossible to find anything appropriate for under $100 and everything I liked was considerably more. I tried a couple of thrift stores. Nothing. Fortunately you can make a lamp out of just about anything. I did this here in the mobile home becasue I could not find what I wanted to match the rest of my decor. Off to Ross which has lots of inexpensive home decorations. I found 2 items I could use f both for under $20. Next stop Home Depot for the hardware needed. Conveniently they had "kits" containing everything needed for $12.00. The following are the results. Around $35 total for each. They are one of a kind and perfectly match the atmosphere of the rooms. .  Spiritwoman ^i^ |
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Those are really clever, you are so artistic. I really like them Spirit, you have given me some ideas on a light for the music room.
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Making your own hanging lamps - you've done a great job with materials at hand. What do you use for light source - candles?
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I only have one comment and it was the first thing that popped in my head..........WOW!!!
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They are both very beautiful and a credit to you. I love them both. Alfie...
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5/20/2016 9:21 pm |
Those are really clever, you are so artistic. I really like them Spirit, you have given me some ideas on a light for the music room. Spiritwoman ^i^
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5/20/2016 9:24 pm |
The results of a life of a champagne taste on a beer budget and a good imagination. Spiritwoman ^i^
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5/20/2016 9:27 pm |
Making your own hanging lamps - you've done a great job with materials at hand. What do you use for light source - candles? Spiritwoman ^i^
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5/20/2016 9:30 pm |
It is definitely satisfying to have what I want at a great price. I have a plan for track lighting disguised in a tree branch. Just have to find the right branch and figure how to get the center bored out so I can run a wire through it. Spiritwoman ^i^
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5/20/2016 9:36 pm |
I only have one comment and it was the first thing that popped in my head..........WOW!!! Spiritwoman ^i^
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5/20/2016 9:38 pm |
They are both very beautiful and a credit to you. I love them both. Alfie... Spiritwoman ^i^
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5/20/2016 9:48 pm |
Thank you. You forgot to include restless, hyperactive, messy and silly. The Christmas decoration took a while to perfect. It started out as lights on the ground that didn't show the pattern I wanted. Next I attached them to the board with great difficulty and mess but it did for that year. Last year I redesigned the board method of attaching the globes. It was easier to take apart and store and will easily go back together come this holiday season. Spiritwoman ^i^
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5/20/2016 9:52 pm |
Thank you. For most of us the "senior budget" makes us pretty resourceful. Ironically I have adequate income, better than I did in some of my career days but it has to go farther. Spiritwoman ^i^
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Lovely job, Spirit.  I wouldn't expect anything less from you. You always produce great things.Elaine Shuel
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They were designed to be lit by candles but to make them into lamps I used a kit from the home improvement store usually used to as replacements.
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All of our room having ceiling lights, but I light the feel of extra lighting and have two hanging lights in our bedroom, in addition to the desk lamp on Joe's desk. My favorite is a open pattern wicker hanging lamp over my reading chair. Only half the long living room has a ceiling light, and I've been thinking about the other half of the room, and I've seen so many neat ideas like what you did. I believe I could create something I would like. Your's are very lovely. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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5/21/2016 10:41 am |
All of our room having ceiling lights, but I light the feel of extra lighting and have two hanging lights in our bedroom, in addition to the desk lamp on Joe's desk. My favorite is a open pattern wicker hanging lamp over my reading chair. Only half the long living room has a ceiling light, and I've been thinking about the other half of the room, and I've seen so many neat ideas like what you did. I believe I could create something I would like. Your's are very lovely. One of my "back burner" projects is to make a track lighting bar out of a tree branch for my paintings display. Just have to find the right branch then figure out how to hollow out enough room to run the wires through it. Spiritwoman ^i^
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5/21/2016 10:43 am |
Lovely job, Spirit. I wouldn't expect anything less from you. You always produce great things.Spiritwoman ^i^
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