Enter the wire mattress spring. I love rusty things as many of you are now aware. Finding an old metal object always sparks ideas on how to repurpose it. It took awhile but I came up with something awesome.
My spring tea-light candle holder!
It took awhile to find a "vessel" in which to place the candle. Nothing seemed to work quite right and the ability to shape the spring is somewhat limiting. Despite its rusted patina, it's very rigid and durable and didn't want to budge much to my manipulations. I found an old jar I had been saving and it cradled perfectly within the spring. I cut another spring in half and wrapped a portion of it around the glass jar to provide a more decorative element and to tie everything together. Since the jar has a somewhat curve in its inner base, the tea-light wanted to slide off to the sides. To remedy this, I placed decorative stones around the jar's circumference to keep the tea-light centered within. I feel more of these ideas will be "springing up" shortly!
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I like what you are doing with the "junk". Those wrenches are pretty fab too. I had to read through your bottle breaking tute as well as I have a craving to "cut" some bottles for crafts. I always seem to have a spare bottle hanging around ;)
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ReplyDeleteHi Sherry. I found those cool old wrenches at a local flea market a few months back. I'll be checking with that vendor again to see if she has more which I will snatch up!
Be careful if ya do the bottle thing. I tried to do a beer bottle 3x's and the thing won't break. Thicker glass? I have no idea.
Old springs repurposed as candle holder's.. twisted/coiled rusted metals so appealing..love your creative idea's. Its always a surprise to follow your blog & see all the new "reused" idea's that you come up with & share. Keep it coming Frugal!
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I love these! I have been using bed springs for "creations" stop back over and check them out!
ReplyDeleteVery cool. Love the whole rusty vintage look! Thanks for linking up to Share the Love Wednesday. Hope you'll be back this week--
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Great take on the whole bedspring and candle idea, John! Love the pebbles in the jar, too. Necessity IS the mother of invention. ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up to Time Travel Thursday. Hope to see you each week. Be sure to stop by tonight, and see yourself featured.
Blessings,
Liz @ The Brambleberry Cottage
Hi Tiki. I'm so happy you found me thanks to Brambleberry. If you love old rusty, vintage things then we'll get along just fine. LOL. I'm a bit jealous of your shed "full of antique tools and gadgets! I'd love to dig around in there for sure! Have fun with your creations and hope to see some of them!
ReplyDeleteThis is so neat! I am going to be on the lookout for old springs now!
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