Hayley is on a role this week with the zingers. The other day it was "Mom, all you do is decorate, cook, and clean." Today she says, "Why do you never finish any of your projects?" Burn. So to Hayley....I finished one, nana nana boo boo, stick your head in doo doo. Yeah, I said it...I told my almost 7 year old to stick her head in doo doo. Okay, not really, but I did, very maturally, stick my tongue out at her :)
Now to my
flying purple people eater purple chandelier and mirrors!!
I picked up a brass chandelier at H4H (habitat for humanity) a few weeks back for $10. They had a HUGE one that I wanted really really bad....but it was $70, and I wasn't willing to pay that for a hallway chandelier.
I picked up a 2 cans of Krylon purple spray paint and ended up with this fabulous chandelier!
Here's what it looked like before:
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| This is with a coat of primer---the camera ran out of batteries and I was too impatient to wait to start painting! |
Then to finish (yes Hayley, I said finish) the hallway I painted some mirrors we had with the rest of the purple spray paint and instant drama!
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| I was laying on my dining room floor to try to get all of it in this shot! |
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The top mirror is an interesting find. It was actually at our house when we moved in. It is a sun looking thing made out of old cans...yes old cans. Like the longest pieces are from a baked beans can, then the next is from a green bean can and so on.... They look to have been cut with tin snips. It was rusting and just hanging in the back room. I had an idea to add a mirror from a compact to the center (the only cheap round mirror I could think of). So, I carefully pried the mirror out and glued it in the center. I had originally painted the can part with some bronze I already had, but when I started this I knew it was getting some purple!
Here are a few more pics of the whole shebang:
Thank you to my dad for hanging the purple chandelier and to my mom who painted the stairwell a billion years ago, and no I never put it on the blog...I dripped paint on the steps and finally just covered it the other day!!
-Make your life beautiful!
