There Once was an Ugly Brass Light

Happy Friday, Everyone!!!!

  Hope yours is great, and filled with creative moments.

OK, so , a few months ago I did not even know a word like  "cloche" , and now I'm making them out of light fittings?       WHAT NEXT, PEOPLE???!!! 
All I can say is..... ya'll inspire me.

BEFORE

I found this old brass light at Goodwill, of course (we don't have any other cool thrift stores close by), and turned it into this.....

AFTER

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And now I have to say I'm sorry once again, because I forgot to take pictures of the "during".

Hey! At least I got the "before" and "after"!

Truth be told, there are not that many steps anyway.

I pulled all the electrical stuff out...basically the whole "light" part. Took the chain off, and was left with just the glass shade. I  used the brass ceiling medallion and other fittings and stacked them to sort of make a "handle" on top.

Then I just taped the glass with painter's tape, sprayed with ORB (Oil Rubbed Bronze) and that's it!

           A Cloche!....Sort of....

 Now that I see the pictures, I realize that extra piece of bolt inside is more visible than I thought.        Wonderhusband says he will help me get rid of it.

 Filling the cloche was more of a challenge than making it... I finally just collected all the decorating balls I had and stuffed them in  there. That will have to do for now until inspiration strikes again. (Read:  until I can copy one of your pretty ideas.)

On the table with some other Fall stuff.

The "throw" is a pillow sham from Goodwill btw. I think it is so pretty!

Do you remember my lamp shade redo ? 

And........one last look.

What do you think? I know that at least a few of you have done this too, so tell me about it.

What did you do with the extra hardware..like the bolt that is now sticking out like a sore thumb?

You know I love your comments!

Suzanne

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Show and tell Friday at My Romantic Home

 

Monochromatic Fall Buffet

Welcome back!

I thought I would try out a white and silver Fall display. I like to use what I have, and not to buy a lot of stuff that will just go into storage after Fall again. I should have plenty of storage space, but I don't. Hmmm...wonder whose fault that is??? I really am not sure, that is not a rhetorical question. There are 5 people living here, each with their own individual hobby and the junk stuff that goes with it.

Where was I? O yes, the buffet that I transformed a while back. I have never really decided how to decorate it, so when the time came to start decorating for Fall, I decided to do this there:

Let me tell you about this little group:

I got the chicken at Savers a while ago on half off,  and the birdies at the Dollar Tree. They were all colored (the cicken and the birds) , so I sprayed them with Heirloom White..now they look more like a respectable bird should look..

The plate was also an earlier Savers buy, and these cutie rub- ons were from the 

$1.50 section at Michaels. I saw them and and bought them, and then saw what one of you very clever, crafty bloggers did with them, so, I copied you.

(I have spent the last 90 minutes looking for the inspiration blog, but, no luck in finding it. So, please, if it's you, let me know, I REALLY would like to give you credit. ) 

 Some $ store plastic pumpkins sprayed silver....

Another cloche made from a cheese dome, a ceramic plate, and a candle holder...with little wooden fruit from Goodwill, sprayed silver.

Gorilla Glue is my friend...that's all I have to say about that!

 Chalkboard  made by painting an old silver tray with black chalkboard paint -

 

 Another Gorilla Glue project....white candlebase glued to a little glass vase.

 The frame is from a thrift store. For the inside I just made a little collage with some fall scrap paper, and a picture of my happy daughter ... 

And....one last look...

Are ya'll getting in the Fall spirit yet?

Have you done a monochromatic Fall display? I would love to hear about it!

             Suzanne

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Little Red Desk from Goodwill

Howdy!

Its about time  I show you this little gem. Well, she is to me. Found her at my local Goodwill a while back and brought her home. I don't even know why I like her so much. I have always wanted something red, but in that old, worn look. That was before I got hold of a can of red spray paint and painted every other thing in my living area red.... You can read about it here .

        Plus she was only $11.00, so, to me, it was a no-brainer. 

 I just sanded her a little bit,and changed the drawer pull, because for now, I love her just the way she is.            (Was it Lionel Richie who sang that song?)

And this is what she looks like now all dressed up for Fall.

Notice my version of the "cheese-dome turned into cloche"? I just glued an old stand of a hurricane that broke , to the wooden base of a cheese dome.All of course thrift store finds. I will probably paint it later,  but for this display I liked it in the brown. Inside is some Chinese Moss and two white round seed-things that looked like they could be eggs, to me. The little bird was from Dollar Tree, spray painted Heirloom White.

              I put some more candles and leaves in an old birdcage I have had for years.

 On the right is another Gorilla Glue Project, where I painted a candle base black and glued it to a vase.
Again...thrift store finds.

 Some more Dollar Tree pumpkins on candlesticks....and a metallic pumpkin from Ross.

The silver cock in the frame my mom bought for me in South Africa many, many years ago.

There you have it! Eleven dollar table, and my second Fall vignette.

What do you think? How would you change this little table up if she was yours?

Remember, I love your comments!!

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Fall Vignette

Chaos has erupted in my downstairs living areas...
Every flat surface (including parts of the floor) is covered with pumpkins, leaves, candles,and other junk decorating stuff.

Yes, you guessed it.....I am decorating for Fall! Or trying to, that is.

This is a first for me...decorating for Fall. That is not counting last years feeble attempt consisting out of 7 real little pumpkins lined up on my piano that spelled W E L C O M E written on there with a Sharpie!

All of this stuff I either already owned, and am repurposing, or are from Goodwill or the Dollar store.

The brass bowls are from Dollar Day at Savers , the pumpkins and white birds from Dollar Tree, and the brass candle sticks I've had forever....grabbed  from a friend who wanted to toss them. The "cloche" and birds will feature in another post.


      And here is the "After"

All the brass got the Oil Rubbed Bronze treatment, and of course I just had to jump on the "pumpkins on Candlesticks bandwagon".

Just look at my cute birdie on sale at Michaels, in its little Oil Rubbed Bronze nest...

The birdcage was an old Goodwill find placed on a candlestick. (What are those things called? I always feel like I'm using the wrong word)

My friend, Stacy gave me this little frame she put together. It says, "A Faithfull friend is finer still than all other treasures upon this earth". Isn't she sweet? You should go check her out.

The glass pumpkin was another Goodwill find.
Oh, and BTW, those are real porcupine quills from my sister's farm in South Africa.

What do you think?

I am still working on some other vignettes, so the chaos is continuing....Oyi!

As always, I thrive on your comments...

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