It's about #@&*! Time!

Long time readers (I can say that now that this blog has been up and running over a year) may remember the vintage chandelier that my friend Yvonne and her sister Madeleine sent along to me for our new house. It was broken in transit. The good news about that was that the breakage disclosed hidden wiring problems that I would never have known about if we had just put it up. So, long story short, UPS paid off on the insurance, we got a new chandelier, and I kept pieces of the old one to make "something" out of.


This is something:
It's hanging above my art table and I'm planning to use it to root plant cuttings. It took about a dozen tries to fit the various pieces together the way I wanted and at least a dozen more to make it water proof. And, there is far more goop, another of those silly technical terms, than I'd hoped for, around the base - a couple of types of glass glue, some silicone caulk, a few prayers, maybe even touch of fairy dust. But, it works and I love it.


The light we ordered from Pottery Barn, thinking we wanted it on the subtle side, turned out to be so subtle it almost disappeared into the walls. So, I got brave and smeared on some green paint and some yellow paint, and I do mean smeared, to liven it up a bit, then added a string of small crystals to go with the ones that came on the light.



NOW it's what I wanted it to be! Looks a little antique-y, has an essence of being old about it even though it's not, doesn't look too perfect. Yep, that's me. Still hard though to get decent pictures with windows on both sides.


Funny, seems like my life goes this way. Things just aren't as I planned, but with a little tweaking here and there, usually a bit messy in its execution, things turn out fine. And, along the way there are always totally unexpected treasures to rescue.

So, thanks to friends for the goodies and to the Powers That Be for the persistence! It's good to have both.