Crafty Sunday

Lately searching around the decorating blogs, birdcage hanging lamps have been popping up right and left. I am totally in love. Then I got my Restoration Hardware Coffee Table Book, I would be hard pressed to call that a catalog since it is HUGE. I plan to keep it forever and ever, so the extra expense it must have cost them to bind it like a book, worth it for me,

Anywho, the catalog has a very beautiful birdcage lamp, but since I forgot to play Powerball and therefore didn't win, I can't afford a bijillion dollars for a little ole lamp.

Some of the other ones I have seen are really pretty reasonable, though I can't justify the expense for anything that doesn't have IRS or Property tax in its title.

What to do? Why make it of course.

This is where the stock pile of crapola I pick up at garage sales and such, comes in handy dandy. I had a birdcage. It was gray, which is not in my color wheel. So I waited for the first semi-nice day and went to town with paint. Spray paint, a girls best friend.

Two coats of white primer, two coats of white top coat, and one coat of clear sealer. One freezing cold day with sun. Presto! a white birdcage waiting to be made over into a hanging lamp.

The little chandelier in my office, I already had hanging. I made the ceiling medallion out of a picture fame, vintage dictionary pages, and mod-podge. The chandelier I found at a garage sale for $15.00. Instant glamour for the most mundane tasks, ie: bill paying, selling on ebay, playing Frontierville on facebook. The cord cover I made myself with fabric and a trusty glue gun.

Since I am never sure something will stay where I place it, I didn't want to damage the birdcage in case I needed it for something, oh I don't know, bird related. So I tied the chandelier up inside the birdcage with white ribbon. Since everything else is white, it blends white in. Man, I am clever with words - hahaha!

Then I just hung the whole kit n caboodle right back up.

The birdcage is open weave on the bottom, so the light shines right down on me.

I love it! I love that it was almost free. I think I paid $4.00 for the cage at a garage sale. Sure, its not the pricey catalog beauty but it is pretty spectacular for my humble abode.

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Beautiful!