My DIY Birds Nest Chandelier

Submitted by Leila on 16 April 2011 - 9:13pm

About 3 months into living in this new house of ours in Darling, I decided that the bare bulbs of the rather depressing chandelier in the kitchen/dining area needed some

LOVIN' attention from my creative heart.

Pretty Chandelier Nest

So, I took some dry twigs, some dry protea's and fynbos, that I actually had thrown away already - fortunately on top of compost heap - and used some left over Christmas decorations and little felt birds and some clear beads and glass chandelier bits... If you had to see all the stuff in a heap, it would honestly look like a bunch of rubbish. And that's probably why I enjoyed it so much - I always get creatively charged and excited finding ways to use things that have been tossed, forgotten or that have gone unnoticed.

From the dining-room table

It took about an hour of fiddling and tweaking...This was the first real creative thing I did in this house. I hadn't been able to paint, draw or even toss together some of my usual raw food delights since we moved. I just wandered about feeling like a bit of a ghost visitor in someone else's home. Jude and I both got very ill and after a 10 day break, on our return, our dearest kitty , Smitten, died. It was all rather a long adjustment period.

Little details

I had such a good feeling of freedom and irreverence while putting this together, loving every quiet peaceful moment of it. However, then Brian arrived home- and it suddenly looked like a total hippy concoction!!
But he stood under it and said : 'I LOVE this!'
I think it was because of all the love that went into it, and it was really the first bit of creative love going into the house...sweet.
Now every time I look at it it makes me happy : )