30 Crafts in 30 Days: Day 9

So, in my dining room I have this super-awesome lighting fixture that is so beautiful, I felt terrible about doing this craft (just kidding).

I decided to make a milk carton chandelier! I know what you’re thinking, “Gosh, milk cartons are soo ugly. Why would you want to display them proudly in your home??” But don’t worry!

 

I cut up about 4 or 5 milk jugs into this oval pieces. Don’t they look marvelously like capiz shell? …and that’s exactly the point. I wanted to make a capiz shell-like chandelier!

I threaded the “shells” into rows of seven…

Sewed them to a piece of ribbon that I think was originally used as packaging for a comforter set…

And tied it to my lighting fixture. It looks way classier now. Well, it still looks kind of silly since I have a CFL randomly chilling at the top instead of lights all the way down. Maybe one day.

 

And ta-dah! Let there be light.

Ok, so the phrase “Let there be light” always reminds me of that one scene in Spider-Man I (before Emo Peter) where Uncle Ben changes a light bulb and says it.