Final Friday, I advised y’all that I had a number of choices so far as what I may work on over the weekend and I wasn’t positive which path I’d resolve to go. Properly, the choice was form of made for me. What I actually wished to work on was the storage room. I wished to get the hardwood flooring put in, get the retailers and lights put in, after which get the cupboards put collectively and in place. However then I spotted that I had made an enormous oversight. The hardwood flooring that I’m going to make use of within the storage room has been sitting within the carport for months now, and I had forgotten to deliver it in in order that it may acclimate earlier than set up. *Sigh* So I introduced the hardwood flooring inside and I’ll give it a number of days to acclimate whereas I proceed on with eating room tasks.
And naturally, the eating room venture I made a decision to concentrate on is the flower chandelier. Is that what I actually ought to have been doing? After all not. 😀 I ought to have been engaged on getting that final lengthy shelf off of the wall and getting the partitions repaired and prepped for paint. However I simply wasn’t feeling impressed to try this. I wished to sit down in my studio, take heed to a podcast, and get misplaced in a inventive venture. So I let myself do precisely that.
First, let me simply say that Tiger doesn’t make issues straightforward for me. 😀
As you recognize, he’s our latest addition. He was a stray and now he’s absolutely part of the Linauer family. And this cat has no idea of “I’m busy, I can’t pet you proper now.” He’s into every little thing. I used to be sitting at my worktable attempting to make 135 clay flowers, and he insisted on sitting on the desk proper in entrance of me, rubbing up in opposition to my palms, and demanding consideration. And as I’d line up the completed (however nonetheless moist and pliable) flowers, he would stroll by them, sniff them, and knock them over. He’s lovable, however my goodness, he positive slows me down! 😀 It’s onerous to get too upset, although, as a result of he’s such a candy cat. We’ve by no means had a cat that desires a lot consideration like he does.
Anyway, I did handle to get all 135 flowers made, and I really like how these turned out.
Clearly, due to their measurement and easy form, these have been a lot simpler to make than the flowers I made for the walk-in closet chandelier.
So making 135 of those small flowers took approach much less time than making flowers for the closet chandelier. I actually love how mild and dainty these flowers turned out.
They’re not fairly completed, although. As a result of I’m a perfectionist, I’m going to spend a while sanding these flowers to eliminate the tough areas. The air-dry clay I used is nice to work with, however since I don’t have plenty of expertise, I do have bother getting it to a very clean end. Fortunately, it sands very easily and simply as soon as it’s fully dry.
And as soon as they’re sanded, I’m going to color them. They’ll stay white, however I additionally purchased an iridescent end that I’m going to attempt on them.
After I completed the flowers, I moved on to the metallic rods. I wanted to bend these rods, and I wasn’t fairly positive learn how to go about it as a result of they’re strong metallic and really inflexible.
I attempted bending the rods round a number of issues like paint cans, however the rods have been too inflexible and ended up denting the paint cans as a substitute of bending across the paint cans. So I regarded round the home for one thing spherical, strong, and heavy that I may bend the rods round, and I ended up utilizing my 25-pound kettlebell. It labored completely!
I’m unsure if I bent them sufficient. I’ll have to attend till I begin placing the chandelier collectively after which I’ll see if I may have so as to add extra of a curve. However holding one finish with the pliers and utilizing my hand to wrap the opposite finish across the kettlebell made the job very straightforward. After all, the longer rods have been simpler to bend than the brief ones, however I made it work.
So that’s the progress thus far! I’m anxious to get this factor put collectively. I do know that mine in all probability received’t look as fairly because the inspiration chandelier.
That chandelier has 160 leaves on it, and mine will solely have 135 flowers on it until I can give you a approach so as to add extra. However contemplating that that’s a $1700 chandelier, and I’ve spend lower than $200 on mine, I can dwell with mine being rather less spectacular than that one. And since nobody sitting in my eating room can have that chandelier to match mine to, I believe it’ll work out simply high quality.
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Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You possibly can be taught extra about me right here.
