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minty-orange-juice asked: For a school auction I have to decorate/transform a lamp to sell for charity, and I'm stuck. I have this medium sized table lamp that has a clear base which I wanted to fill up with something, but now I don't know what to put in it. My friend suggested buying a grow crystal kit and growing the crystals inside, but I did some research and it is expensive and not super reliable/fast. Any suggestions on what I should do? I'm going with a "dreamlike" theme cause the shade is a cloud. I have 5 weeks.
Hey, that’s so cool!! When you’re done with it, any chance I can see a photo of it! Seems like such a neat project, I’ve never thought of filling up a lamp base before! 8D
I’ve listed some tutorials that might prove useful to you, if not, feel free to ask for more, I’ll try my best to help out. I really like the crystal growing idea, too! Sucks that it won’t work out.
This is one of my favourite things ever. It’ll look so cool with the glow of a lamp above it! Hardest part might just be picking colours. You need glitter, cotton (you could always tear an unwanted stuffed animal apart if you’re cold like me), and some food colouring or fabric dye. I think the creator recommended blues, pinks, and purples to work the best.
And don’t feel too restricted to just adding glitter!
Head to the dollar store, pick up little plastic toys! Tiny toy dinosaurs or a pack of glow-in-the-dark stars and sprinkle ‘em in (if you want)!
Try experimenting with some plastic water bottles for your colour combo first, so you won’t waste too much time trying with a big lamp base.
This uses glow-in-the-dark fabric paint. Might seem a little counterproductive to paint a lamp with glow-in-the-dark paint, but it looks so cool in light!
It’s a very clean and airy look if you’re not a fan of the more “heavy” and “clouded” look of the bottle nebula.
And with the paint, you have a little more control over what the result will look like! You can even paint constellations, little dots to shape a star, hearts, the sun, go nuts!
I’m a fan of how soft and dreamy this looks. If the lamp shade has a busy pattern, this would be perfect to accompany it, as to mellow out the composition.
This is a video tutorial. I think it looks really sweet and dreamlike. Since the lamp base is probably way larger than these mini jars, you might find it difficult and a little expensive to fill so much of it with resin, BUT! I have an idea.
Instead of making the “water” fill more than half of the container (you can omit the pebbles) and make a thin layer of “water”, maybe place more than one paper boat (if you want, this is subjective) and suspend cotton fluffs to be clouds from the lid.
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As you get older, you really start to understand more about why people drink the night away, smoke their lungs black, or throw themselves off buildings.
