Weekend D.i.Y - Origami lampenkap. Letter light from curbly’s new DIY book. We all know that hardware stores can be a bit overwhelming, especially if you’re an avid DIYer. Every time I pass the rows of gleaming copper pipe, I just know there’s an amazing home decor project hiding in there somewhere, but then my eyes scan to the rope section, the molding section, the brackets, and on and on. Too many possibilities! I am so excited to see that the DIY experts at Curbly have tackled the hardware store’s rows upon rows of products in their new book, the aptly named Make It! Hardware Store Decor. This “letter light” tutorial is just one of the 12 awesome home decor projects in the book. Simple to create and the epitome of industrial chic, each project inspires me to raid the hardware store and redecorate my home immediately. You can purchase the book in downloadable PDF form here. CLICK HERE for the full how-to after the jump! Materials Tools Instructions 1.
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By layering them over plain liners, she was able to create a beautiful effect on these orb lights; the organic, anemone-like shapes look lovely up close, far away, unlit during the day and glowing from within at night. Materials Instructions 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Make an Alien Abduction Lamp. This is an entry in the Living With Lindsay Five Dollar Challenge! The challenge was to make a home decor item for $5 or less. My project is inspired by Lasse Klein's conceptual Alien Abduction Lamp. The lamps are still being developed and are not available for sale yet.* (update 2010: oh yes, the lamp is now available). I thought it would be fun to make one for my own personal use out of materials I found at the dollar store.
When I was shopping for materials, I couldn't find any toy cows (a cow has to be the one being messed with by the aliens, right?) That had a cow in it at Target's dollar spot, so I had to get it to make the lamp perfect! Project Materials: Large-lipped bowl, $1Smaller bowl, $.25 (mine was marked down)Acrylic drinking glass, $1Touch light, $1Package of farm animals, $13 Aliens I happened to find in the coin-op machines on the way out, $.75 Total cost: $5 You will also need, from on hand: To make: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Here's the lamp in the daytime. Floating Taper Candles. I think it’s fair to say that I have a “thing” for candles. I like em. I like lighting them, looking at them, smelling them. I like em. You know those people who hoard candles and stick them in every possible cupboard and drawer? I’m not one of those people. A few months ago, many months ago now that I think about it, I showed you how to make your own floating candles. At the time I was doing the tutorial on floating tea lights, I started working on another kind of floating light. When you drop a taper candle into a vase of water it (being made of wax) tries to float and because it’s bum end has more wax (which wants to float), the bum end tries to float up to the top.
You need candles, washers, and thumbtacks. Just scrape the bottom of your candle so it’s perfectly flat on the bottom of it isn’t already. Cough. Why post it then? However, I should add that to remedy this, all you would have to do is buy washers that are bigger than the base of the candle. Glowing jar project – varázslat a lakásban (EN/HU) | from {panka} with love.
Paper star lantern tutorial. I suppose it isn't exactly the right time of year for stars and lanterns, but I've got a paper folding fascination at the moment and so was drawn to a project I had wanted to do back in Autumn. During last lantern season I was looking everywhere for instructions to make these beautiful paper lanterns and couldn't find them anywhere. I ended up purchasing a lantern that was already made and since I've been struggling with some difficult folds and designs of other paper crafts, I decided to unfold the seemingly simple lantern I bought and figure the thing out for myself.
Like all traditional origami, no glue or cutting (once the basic outside shape of the paper is made) are required. I feared that once I unfolded my lovely store-bought version I wouldn't be able to get it back together but thankfully it wasn't nearly as difficult as I assumed. Begin with a 12" square of paper to end up with a lantern that is about 7" across when complete. Cut off the four marked corners of the paper. DIY Solar Jar. Do you love these solar jars? Photo: Solutions catalogue I do too but at $20/pop plus shipping they are pretty pricey. I saw this cute idea for making a solar jar here and wanted to try it. I found this jar at Goodwill and knew it would make the perfect solar jar-it was already frosted and only $1.97! I just needed to find a solar light.
I found this individual light at Ace Hardware for $4. It easily popped apart and I just put it into the jar. The tutorial says to mount it to the top of the jar but I didn't do that. I may have to flip it over from time to time to make sure the solar cell is getting charged. It looks even better when it gets really dark out but then my photo wouldn't have come out. I like how it turned out,even though it doesn't have the same amber glow as the inspiration jars. Linking up with: Glow In The Dark Mountain Dew.