Glow and Behold. We first saw this sparkling lightscape last year in the now-defunct Blueprint. It's a lovely neutral and crystalline color palette. Click below for details on how to do this project using Christmas lights and canvas...
How To: Make a Glittering Lightscape
• Paint a stretched canvas from an art-supply store in your desired color.
• Plot out your design in pencil on the back, keeping dots a half-inch apart.
• Gently press an awl through each dot in your design to make a hole slightly smaller than the diameter of the bulb.
• Press a bulb into each hole; secure each with craft clue.
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(Edited from a post originally published 11.21.07)
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just an FYI link to blueprint doesn't work
view sanna's profile
The hardware on that credenza is gorgeous.
view bepsf's profile
So nice.
view OliviaV's profile
I dont totally understand. Where does the light actually come from? And are the "bulbs" attached to anything-- or are they just the glass bit? Are these christmas light bulbs?
view spiralcma's profile
oh -- i see. Christmas lights. Derp.
view spiralcma's profile
I saw a project like this a few years ago, though I can't remember where -- it would make a great headboard with built-in reading lights.
view palindrome's profile
i miss Blueprint.
view jenny!'s profile
Brilliant!
view modernguy's profile
Love it!
view KetchupFiend's profile
Aren't these links supposed to lead somewhere?
view southwick's profile
I miss Blueprint, but I don't miss anything that involves Christmas lights.
What's a "crystalline color palette" ?
view Palmetto's profile
Did you all already post about this with instructions on how to "make your own?"
view cricketchirp's profile
I found it...similiar..but not the same
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/at-europe/at-europe-paris-valerie-boy-at-salon-maison-et-objet-032062
view cricketchirp's profile
This was posted over a year ago, at least. I saved the photo in my inspiration folders. I never made one, though.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b284/thelionsof/room011.jpg
view Kimber's profile
Actually, AT, I apologize...that was from the ourbedrooms community over in livejournal land. It was over a year ago, though.
view Kimber's profile
ooh Lite Brite-ish. haha.
view hessilou's profile
I've done the same with wood
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliviatokyo/2760898402/
Had to take it down because it wouldn't stay up!
view OliviaTokyo's profile
This would be cute in a nursery - you could paint the canvas midnight blue (or something) and then use different sized and colored lights to create a mini-cosmos.
My husband is a huge space/science buff and I'm a big literature buff and if we have a son I can see this being a great way to merge Le Petit Prince and NASA :-)
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