Tag: lighting

Wave ghost

On By CarynIn Cats, Craft

I found an LED light that casts wave like forms in selectable colors. What a perfect thing to set under a ghost!

Netting ghost in daylight

I set up one of my chicken wire ghosts and draped with with fine netting fabric. This is a basic version using my wire ghost instructions (which are currently selling like hot cakes on Etsy, wow). The ghosts in the instructions are more detailed with stylized netting, this version has no arms and uses just a long section of netting thrown over the top. I tried just setting the light under the ghost, but didn’t like that I could see it. I found a dark pot (which is actually part of a helium can that I cut off the top and painted black a while back), and placed that under the ghost with the light inside. I had to adjust the lengths of steel posts that stabilize the ghost from an X formation to parallel to accommodate the can, but it worked.

Wire ghost lit from beneath with a wave light

The white light is quite bright, but I think the blue color is nice.

Meadow cats checking out the new decoration

Ni-night

On By CarynIn chickens

One of the sources I’ve been reading for caring for chicks said when moving chicks to a new location, leave a light on for them so they don’t get lost in the dark. So tonight I left the lights on in the coop. When I went to check in them after dark, they were having a little chicky party; eating and drinking and happily peeping it up. So I went and found some lower key lights. I left a flashlight on while I went hunting for lights. When I got back (with decorative LED lights from a vase inside), most of them had settled down. By the time I had the lights hooked up and the flashlight off, all but one had gone birdie ni-night. Wow. It is not that easy with human kids. Just saying.

It is a pretty fancy night light, but hey, it was free, LED, and it works!

Raining again, time for some light

On By CarynIn Craft

No outside work today; the forecast said rain all day and it was right this time. So I broke down and cleaned up my craft space. It was better than cleaning the rest of the house! (Or folding laundry, ugh.)

I think I mentioned that I am easily distracted? Cleaning the craft area involved quite a bit of “I forgot I started this!” And “How can I fix this?” The wooden model now has a functioning hand again, I rearranged several boxes of supplies so I could get one more box on the shelves, and I found enough bits and bobs to make a new light for the space.

It is this last one that particularly pleases me. I had a shelf standard leftover from the last house (a poor single standard all by its lonesome, aw), and I had leftover LED strip lights and (amazingly) all the parts to make it work, so I lined the inside of the standard with the sticky LED tape, screwed in a bracket for it to sit on, and now I have lovely light all across my standing bench! Hurray! I love LED lighting.

LED strip lighting lining the inside of a shelf standard

Craft area ready with new light!

P.S. Though I love the sticky LED strips, they don’t stick as well as I think they should. After having the tape snake down three times, I finally took some hot glue to the sucker. Love hot glue.