My Mum gave me a chandelier to use at our wedding. Actually, she gave me two. One is a beautiful all-glass piece, and the other one had lots of brass. Yuck!
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| Look at this beaut! Just waiting for a makeover! |
Notice how the sleeves are all cracked and disheveled. I regret not taking a better picture of the cracked and broken sleeves! I spent a bit of time googling how to fix them this morning, and came across another blogger (ThePaletteMuse) who used my favorite, Mod Podge! I was all over that!!!
See her chandelier post
here!
I was also lucky enough that it was absolutely beautiful outside so I took my paper cutter, Mod Podge, spray paints and chandelier outside and set to work!
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| Let the spraypainting begin!!! |
So, it took me forever to take this thing apart. And let me tell you, I am SOOOOOO glad that I took pictures of the process or I'd still be trying to figure out what went where! I used a bit of painters tape over the part you screw the lightbulb into, then spray painted away. I thought I'd grabbed a spraypaint with primer, but I did not. I got lucky and it seems to be sticking pretty well!
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I had some weird brown cardstock that I wasn't going to use on anything else.
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| I wanted to see what it would look like with glitter spray paint on it. |
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| I followed ThePaletteMuses directions and got my Mod Podge on! |
It's kind of awesome how that Mod Podge made that weird brown cardstock look like a copper metal, and had I of chosen to spray paint the chandelier chrome, I would have kept them like that, but I decided on the black, so I glittered the sleeves up. Did I mention how much I love glitter spray paint???
I used the chandelier as a drying rack for my newly glittered sleeves! Loving how they look so far!!! Excuse the bald patch of grass in our yard. We have seed down and are trying to recover this piece of yard now that the 300ft Maple tree has been chopped down!!!
Once everything was good and dry, I played the puzzle game and tried putting things back where they once came from. This took just as long, if not longer, than taking it apart. Lol. Regardless, I absolutely love how it looks. It's no longer dated and brassy. It's black and glittery!
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