A bit of upcycling

Now I really don't mind where my bargains come from and I am not averse to a bit of skip wombling at all.  However on this occasion my teenage daughter spotted something in a nearby skip, photographed it on her phone and showed me.  I sent her straight back for it.

It was a light fitting with five glass 'cups', a chandelier type thing and quite large. Unfortunately one of the cups was badly cracked.  So I had a little think about this item.  I took the cups out.  I had just bought some solar fairy lights for another project but I got them out and twisted them round the arms of the light..  They look really nice.  I now want to hang it in a tree outside much to my partner's amusement 'in a tree, what for?'  It's art, it's fun, it's different.  What more can I say?

The chandelier - not in it's finished state or in it's final position but you get the idea.

The four remaining cups haven't been wasted either as they are currently residing in my conservatory and I  intend to put tealights in them.  They may have a different function at some stage, we'll see!

I would have so liked to have added a picture of it lit up at night but I can't seem to capture it very well.  It's very pretty.