I was thinking they could be great here, where we do mainly outdoor living. I can't recall when we last ate indoors. Our patio furniture is teak, and I know, from experience, it can scorch once tea lights get molten and low.
I'm not sure where "here" is in your case.
I'm not sure where "here" is in your case.
They are easy enough to make. They are old dog food tins in my case, as we get a tin a day. I found a cheap online supplier of cans of spray paint - Kobra, sold on Amazon uk.
You freeze about an inch of water in the bottom of a can. Then when that's frozen, fill the can with water and freeze it again.
You have 2 ways of doing the pattern. Either draw it out on paper and tape it round the can, or draw it on the can with a pen. I did the latter and my pen washed off, but it could easily have been sprayed over. I chose to do it this way so I could make hole in the dips of the can's ridges, asyou can slip off the peaks.
You use a nail and hammer to make the holes, tapping into the ice. If you don't have the ice the tin bends. Different sized nails make different sized holes. I made two holes near the top on either side for handles to go through. I worked from the top down, then, if I needed to stop I could fill with water to the level I'd reached and refreeze (not that I needed to do that). Obviously I only worked on one can at a time.
Then I used wire to make a handle, and I sprayed the whole thing. My latest ones are orange with Hallowe'en style pumpkin faces, and I've painted the eyes, nose etc in black.
You could use a glue gun to glue a piece of cork tile to the base to avoid scorching.
It looks amazing. Is it a project for yourself, in which case where do you keep it and where do you have your set up? My husband would find it interesting, though one of his loves is working steam trains - few and far between these days but provided excuses to visit India and China in the past!
Edit - and hey, hammering holes in tins cans isn't 'soft', nor was sewing last week when I sewed straight through my own finger with the sewing machine - LOL
- we can cut ourselves with scalpels or catch a soldering iron in the web between your fingers!
I have got to say, I am impressed. just read up about this great Viaduct, "unbelievable" 11 million bricks needed for its construction etc;
I've really taken to the Kindle too. I wish I'd had it when we travelled round Europe for a year. Though keeping myself in reading material by swapping with fellow travellers did bring up some books that i would never have chosen otherwise.
Well I have gone and done it now, talk about never being satisfied, l have called my glass fusing kiln into action. Hubby bought it about 3 years ago for my birthday. I primed the shelf but found the instructions a bit daunting. I had started to set a wall hanging up, of course it was full of dust, well I washed the pieces and added more. Found easy to follow instructions for my kiln via Youtube (god bless Youtube ). Well I have set it cooking I will find out tomorrow weather it has been success or failure . Fingers crossed.
Well I have gone and done it now, talk about never being satisfied, l have called my glass fusing kiln into action. Hubby bought it about 3 years ago for my birthday. I primed the shelf but found the instructions a bit daunting. I had started to set a wall hanging up, of course it was full of dust, well I washed the pieces and added more. Found easy to follow instructions for my kiln via Youtube (god bless Youtube ). Well I have set it cooking I will find out tomorrow weather it has been success or failure . Fingers crossed. [/QUOTE]
