My mother was a very artistic person and so is my son, but that gene pretty much passed right through me without leaving a hint of artistic DNA in its wake. I have an eye for decorating, I built a dollhouse from a kit and sewed a pretty weird looking coat for Cooper, but that's about the extent of my craftiness. I admire the craftiness of others, though, and occasionally try to duplicate something I see online (yes, I've become a Pinterest junkie), so when I saw faux Sun Jars all over the interwebz I thought to myself, "Hell's bells, any moron could do THAT!" And it's true!! Any moron CAN!
I made a couple of modifications from the online instructions that cut the actual work down to almost nothing, and I like the result a lot!
Supplies needed:
1 dozen wide mouthed pint canning jars with lids (under ten bucks)
1 dozen solar path lights - the 3" diameter cheap-o's ($2.98 each at WalMart)
1 spray can of glass frost
some type of tool to cut thin metal without hurting yourself - I used a Dremel with a reinforced cut-off wheel
glue (SuperGlue Glass Adhesive is probably the best)
Procedure:
1. Remove the lids from the jars and place them upside down for painting.2. Spray the outside of the jars with glass frost - two or three coats should do it - dries pretty much instantly.
4. Twist the whole light/battery/solar panel assembly off the path light.
5. Cut a slit in the band so it can spread just a bit.
6. Apply glue to the threads on the glass jar and the threads on the inside of the band and stick them together as if the band was screwed on, with the little slit on the back side of the jar.
7. Pull the tab to allow the light to come on and insert the light assembly into the mouth of the jar. It will only go in about 1/3 of the way.
8. You're done.It may not be water tight, but solar lights are made to get rained on, so ... meh. If it gets water in it, dump it out.
2 comments:
I haven't even bothered to check your blog for so damn long because I just assumed you'd gone to Facebook forever (like everyone else whose blogs I used to follow but who haven't posted for a year or more). Thanks so much for coming back! Sorry about all the deceased animal friends, glad the house projects are going well, and please keep commenting on the stupidity of our elected (?) officials...it does my heart good.
Jessie
Thanks! Blogs like ours seem like either a public diary or an exercise in narcissism (or both) but it also serves as a record of our life together in a way that Facebook never will. When we're old and have dementia we can use it to settle arguments about our life timetable.
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