Room's so bright it's gotta wear shades

In my daughter's room was the typical boob light.  Plus one of the sockets didn't work so needless to say it had to go.  I went looking for many options but she really didn't want anything normal or popular in her room. < Insert hipster here>   So off to the Restore for a vintage light fixture.

 I found this beauty for a whopping 2.50.  It was perfect for what I had in mind.

 

All I need now is a little goop.

It is pretty amazing.  So what am I going to be gluing together?

Well shades of course! 

Aren't they cool?

I can guarantee no one has a light fixture like this.

 

I broke off one of the ear bar thingies of each pair. 

A little tape to hold it until it dries.  Then I also glued the broken ear band thingies in between the other....you'll see. 

Hung, complete, and looking amazing! 

Do you know what the best part about this light is?

 

It's a light even when it's not :) 

Boom, glow in the dark light fixture TAAAAAA-DAAAAA!

all I can do is SIGH :/

So I saw this fabulous idea using an old light globe and paint.  It was amazing and I would so put up a link to the original but I can't find it again.  I have looked,.....most of the day actually.

I decided I would risk it and fake my way through it.  Should of known better.  I had the paint all picked out, had this great pink and silver spray paint.  Spent my time taping and began to paint.  Except the paint was really old.  How old?  I'm not sure, I guess I could cut it in half and count the rings.  If you ever buy second hand spray paint ask to test it.  Oh well no financial loss but now I have to put paint on this thing because all that's on it, is the goo that holds the paint to the object.  I ran to the garage and grabbed a yellow can of paint.   Yeah not a real great choice to go with the silver I had already painted.

But I am impatient and don't want to run to Walmart to find me some pink so this is what came out.

Makes me want to call a taxi.  I tried to hide this horrible tragedy by pretending I meant to do that with the silver art object in the back.  Only made it worse.

I am now thinking on adding black checks and just go all the way with the taxi thing.......SIGH!

any suggestions?

New Find @ the ReStore!!

So I went down to the ReStore today just to look around.  Didn't have much money but I found this really old trunk.  Not sure what it was but it was well made.  It is heeeaaaaavvy!  I could tell by my husbands face .Yeah it's dirty but it looks so

sturdy I think it would be an awesome coffee table for outside.  Not sure if I'm going to paint it or stain it or call it Bob.

There's so many options.  Does anyone know more about this thing?

Recycled stuff into Bird Bath

I was going to wait to post this but I'm too excited. We have this place here in town called the ReStore and it is awesome!! It's like used building materials and furniture and light fixtures or parts of all of the above. All of the money they make go to Habitat for Humanity. Which I love and encourage everyone to support them. One reason they are amazing, the other is finding things cheap. With a capital C and B for bargain. So I found this light fixture cover and it was a pretty good size and square and deep enough but not too deep. I thought bird bath depth. I have also found, about a year ago, a surveyor's tripod for around a dollar at a thrift store. Which I have been hanging on to in hopes of using. I had another one but turned it into a floor lamp.
Ok so on to the bird bath,.....grabbed a couple of rubber spacers and nylon bolt and washer to seal the hole in light cover. Painted the tripod in some fun colors using leftover spray paint and left over garage sale stickers.

I have to admit, I was going to leave it the natural wood color but accidently got painted when I was working on the file cabinet planter. Sometimes mistakes are a good thing.

Then just bolted the top to the bottom with nuts and washers. So for about 5 dollars I have a bird bath that is fun and easy to store away for the winter. It is also a great detourant for my cats as I can make it really high.