Pendant light shade re-do!

You know the shades they have for the lights that hang down low over your bar or kitchen sink, pendant lights? They have the best shades, very artsy! Thick, nice, clear, or frosted textured and or smooth.

Many colors!

Well, what happens when you break one and you have to replace all the shades because you can not find the ones you have anymore...out of style?

You replace the Pendant lamps with new shades, get a face lift for the kitchen,  and make something out of those shades.

Lol!

I got these from a friend that found a bunch of them. Gave a few to me at clay day, and told me to make something, it was so funny because a couple of days before I had pulled out a Lamp shade from a floor lamp that I absoluetly loved and had broken. I could not through the glass away. I loved it! I was going to and then this hit me. Like a slap upside the head it came to me.

I went to clay day and then more glass lamp shades came my way. bam! There is the idea, ready and waiting in the back of my trap.

There is a saying that if you see something three times look in to it! It is trying to tell you something.

I don't really wait for three anymore! More that once within a week I check it out!

Here is the result of the shades and below is the large one I am doing. About punch bowl size I would say. Perfect for table top, with dried flowers or ornamental fruit in glass.

Remembering Christmas-Jodi's vase and Sisterfriend Day

I was looking for something else in all my files and I found the pictures from Christmas 2009. I made this for my best friend (sisterfriend) and it is one of my favorite pieces. I am sorry the pictures are so bad but as usual I was in a hurry at that time and this is one of the last pieces I made before Christmas arrived. I probably baked it the night before I went there.
I used vintage crystals another friend had given me and a cracked glass globe that was used for a project long ago (that was ugly, very old, and out dated).
I captured each crystal in black Cernit and added them one at a time to the top of the glass. I then added some little bits of clay here and there for detail.
Baked the whole thing and when it was cool, I washed it with Old Brass Lumiere and wiped off the excess.

In my case, sometimes it is good to be under pressure and time constraints and not to have time to over think something. I wanted to keep this real bad.


Today is Sisterfriend day and no housework day, I am, in honor of both days, telling you my sisterfriends, I love you and appreciate you so very very much and not doing any housework (LOL, something new and different, ya right, and this point, what my dear sisterfriend Renee would say "Harharhar!!")
Read my sisterfriend Ces' post about her declaration of this outstanding day of love!
http://cesandherdishes.blogspot.com/2010/04/sisterfriend.html
I appreciate you Ces, my dear sisterfriend, you are a brilliant light in my life!!