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soap bubble chandelier

2/7/2013

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I'm sure you've seen the glass ornament chandeliers on pinterest. I know I have. That is where this idea got it's inspiration. However, mine has a few alterations to the one's you might have seen and also a different look. I knew I would be hanging my chandelier over my bathtub so I bought ornaments with a slight iridescent quality so they would look like soap bubbles. I decided that I would use the base ring of a lampshade for my frame and lucked out at Goodwill when I found a pale blue shade with crystals hanging from it's base for only $2. After the ornaments and lamp shade you will just need clear thread/fishing line, 4 wooden skewers, a hot glue gun and 3 small ceiling hooks.
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Once I had my supplies in order I cut the base of the lamp shade off. Then I cut the skewers to fit inside the lamp shade dividing it into eight sections  and secured them with hot glue.
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Then I used some cereal storage containers and clothes pins to keep the base stead while I attached the ornaments. I just eyeballed it and hung them at different levels using the fishing line and tying it into knots around the ornament hook and the skewers.
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When it was done I screwed the three hooks into the appropriate locations around the light in my bathroom and then used some thread to make loops for hooking the the lamp shade to the hooks. I could have used the fishing line but I didn't want the knots to slip (which sometimes happens with the clear stuff.  The pictures don't really do it justice but it looks really pretty. My daughter actually said "Look! Bubbles!" when she was in the bath and noticed it.

After it was hung I felt like it wasn't nearly as impressive or legit looking as I thought it would be in my head. I decided I hated it. But, I wasn't about to let all of that good work go to waste! I went to Target and grabbed a large white drum lampshade for about $20. When I got home, I placed my creation inside the new shade making sure a portion of the "bubbles" hung out of the bottom. I didn't even have to attach it in any way! The frame of my creation rests perfectly on-top of the new shade! Then I simply re-hung it by adding a few more hooks and tying fishing line on the new shade's supports. I LOVE it now! It makes the bathroom feel luxurious and is lovely to look at while taking a bath.

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    Rachel is a mother of three, elementary Spanish teacher and part-time blogger who loves crafting, creating fun and engaging activities for her children and students and hanging with her friends and family. She blogs about what she's doing and her interests at any given time which vary. She's a little OCD and always looking for her next project. Her husband calls it, "focusing her crazy", but she just calls it fun. 

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