Thursday, May 23, 2013

Branch Chandelier

Conrad's mom, Lalove, made this chandelier with me during one of her visits. Besides getting shocked we managed to pull it off pretty nicely:)
 
So we started with a branch I had pulled out of the snake river years ago. I love this branch but it needed to be a bit longer so we elongated some of the arms with electrical wire.
 Then we took an extension cord and wired it to 3 sockets.
 Then we put the bulbs in to see if it worked!
 Drum roll please.......... it worked!!
 Then we taped the sockets to the branch and stared doing paper mache around the branch and wires.
 Our final coat was a linen with mod podge.
 I hung it with fishing line so it looks as if it is floating.