Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Making Old Lights New

A couple of months ago I bought a shadow lamp from a thrift store for a dollar. When I saw it I thought that I would try to take it apart and make my own images in it. I cut it open and made a pattern for myself to follow.



As I was taking it apart I realized that It wasn't going to be put together as nice, but scotch tape works, right?!








I used the old hardware from the smiley face insert and popped it into my new card stock top that I had made. I drew the family (from an image I used from Monster Park) with sharpie on a transparency and taped it to form a cylinder then attached it to the top piece.

Spining Lamp from Lois Keenan on Vimeo.

2 comments:

meganary said...

I thought that was awesome when I saw it when I was babysitting. I forgot to tell you when Penny woke up from the girls going to bed, and she kept crying, I picked her up and we went into the playroom. She just stared at that and calmed down.

Lauren Ingalls Stichter said...

awesome crafting skills. i love how you figured this out and made it really personal. i see a market for this!