This week, I chose one product to use in transforming a few found items.  The product, a can of Rustoleum Bright Coat Silver spray paint, goes for$4.19 at Home Depot.  Because it rained so much this week, I went diving in my basement for makeover candidates.

This is the second makeover for this hanging fixture.  A 70’s model, it was all simulated brass, wood grain and really bad amber  globes around each bulb.  So much going on in one cheap light.  I painted it two shades of green to hang on the porch of a former place.  For this iteration, I gave it the silver treatment, then dug up some plastic beads (shoebox under the bed).  I sprayed the beads and strung them on the fixture, using a few strands of embroidery floss.

Wondering if silver spray paint would stick to glass, I sprayed a clear vase, the kind you might get with a bouquet delivery.  Impressed with how a few seconds of spray paint can glam up an everyday object, I took it a step further.

This is a quart size yogurt container.  If you’re having a party this holiday season, starting saving now and you can do a whole silver tabletop thing for $4.19. You could silverize the tree, too.

I once worked with a guy who gave his bedroom an all white treatment.  Bothered that his television didn’t match, he bought a can of paint and sprayed it white, too.

While on safari in the basement, I also dug up the metal frame of a lamp shade to make this silver mesh one.  From a strip of leftover screening—the black flexible kind—I traced and cut four panels for each side.  The easiest way to attach them to the frame was with a needle and thread.  I used large stitches to whip stitch the screening to the frame, then sprayed the finished shade silver.  

An update on Thursday’s field trip:  Sharon sent her apologies; she was the victim of too much time hunched over a hot keyboard working on her next project.