Antique Lace Lights

Like most hare-brained ideas I conjure up in my mind,
this lighting fixture was not my original plan, but...
I really, really, really like it....alot!

Using antique hand-tatted lace, I mod-podged it (somewhat like a puzzle and it seemed
to take as long as a puzzle...okay...maybe not) onto a store bought light fixture
from Home Depot I picked up for $11.99.  Actually, two of them.

I took off the steel cage because I didn't want quite that much of an
industrial look going on in my vintage bedroom hallway...although, maybe rusted
up a bit, it would have looked kinda funky!

Because the previous lights were similar to the "boob" lights we all
love to hate now (which incidentally, I always thought looked like a boob...
what would Freud say?)...

(Except mine don't have...um....nipples...wow..totally off subject!)

....I decided to do something unique to them.  Mostly because the wee
chandeliers I coveted for their replacement cost megabucks and partly because
I'm a creative blogger and I can do this.  hahaha!
So, I started with the idea that I wanted to spray "Looking Glass" paint
into the glass fixtures to give them the look of mercury glass.
Ooooh....so cool............NOT!

I practiced on a canning jar...alright....two or three of them.
It looked okay from the outside sitting on a shelf....

...however, when I brought the glass over to my bridge lamp and held
it up with the lightbulb inside....not so good.

You could see every drip from the inital waterspray to give it that
mercury glass look.  So, once again, you all get to learn from my retarded
ideas that don't work out!
Lucky!

Now I had to come up with something vintage looking for the glass fixture
that I felt would be unique.
Aha!  Lace!
After searching fabric stores galore for just the right lace I wanted, which
in my mind was something more like a doily, I found some
antique hand-tatted lace in an antique shop and hit paydirt!

It came in the form of four placemats and although I thought twice
about cutting them up for what I had in mind, I figured...hmmm...
how often would I use four?  Usually two for Dan & I, three if one other person
is over and on the whole with our big family...more than eight are required.
So I did. (Notice how I skipped having just one other couple over...denial)

They worked out quite well and after mod-podging all the lace onto the
fixtures, I went over the whole thing with mod-podge again to
give it a frosted look so the light wouldn't be too harsh.

I think they look quite dainty, don't you?

I finished off the fixture itselt with two 9" ceiling medallions purchased
at Home Depot as well.

I gave these a spraypaint along with the fixture (jar lid type) light base.

The end result felt rather whimsical and I'm quite happy with the light
designs on the ceiling in the evenings when it's lit up!

I really love having the old fixtures out of there and these are so
much more feminine in keeping with the bedroom theme.
Dan said he like them too...but he's like that...always supporting my craziness.

Of course, one thing always leads to another and now my brain is
brimming with other ways to use mod-podged lace!
xo

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