As a first attempt, I was quite pleased with how this turned out! I know it's a bit rickety - I can't find any thicker gauge wire at the moment so I just twisted together some really thin copper filament.
I used the tutorial from here, with the exception of the real lighting bit (baby steps - I'm still a novice). I used jewellery findings as sconces and beads for candles, as suggested in the tutorial but, when attaching the sconces, I wound the wire round the curlicue at the bas of the chandelier and then up through the jewellery finding and through the bead 'candle'. Then I cut the wire, leaving a bit for the wick, which I dabbed with a little black acrylic paint. I know real chandeliers don't have real candles anymore and this would probably burn my tiny house to ashes if it were real.... But I figure, if I can't have 'real' candles in my tiny fantasy house then what's the point? (I haven't had real candles in my 'big' home since before the boys were born!)
I used the tutorial from here, with the exception of the real lighting bit (baby steps - I'm still a novice). I used jewellery findings as sconces and beads for candles, as suggested in the tutorial but, when attaching the sconces, I wound the wire round the curlicue at the bas of the chandelier and then up through the jewellery finding and through the bead 'candle'. Then I cut the wire, leaving a bit for the wick, which I dabbed with a little black acrylic paint. I know real chandeliers don't have real candles anymore and this would probably burn my tiny house to ashes if it were real.... But I figure, if I can't have 'real' candles in my tiny fantasy house then what's the point? (I haven't had real candles in my 'big' home since before the boys were born!)
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