Spooky Candlestick DIY Project
Hey! This is Sandra for Sawdust and Paper Scraps (now Sawdust Girl) here to show you one of my recent projects!
I bought about 5 old lamps when I was shopping for items to make my Halloween Candelabra tutorial.
I only used 2 for that So I had a couple left to make these Spooky Bad Boys.
Remember I said I had a project in mind to use up the other half of the PVC and threaded rod?
Well, this was what I had in mind…
only I didn’t actually end up using either the PVC or threaded rod
so now I have to come up with another project altogether!
Darn!
For this project I used :
-2 lamp purchased at Goodwill (about $3 each)
-3 plastic skulls purchased at the dollar store ($1 each)
-1 can of satin black spray paint (the cheap stuff from Lowes- $1)
Oh yeah! You know I alway have about 5 projects going on at once!
2. Drill holes in your Skulls.
3. Mess around with configuring all the parts until you find a design your happy with.
I put these together about 6 different ways before I decided on this particular arrangement. I used the lamps original rods, which are threaded both ends, so I had to play with adding and taking away pieces to make them just the right height.
4. Paint the SKULLS!
5. Distress.
6. Put them back together.
You could drill a hole in the tops that are deep enough for the nut to fit down inside
so the top is flush. I didn’t want to take the time so I just screwed it right on top.
My candles are a little concave and it doesn’t matter a bit.
If you’re candles are flat on the bottom, just melt a little wax away to make room.
And that’s it folks.
Total cost- $10
No, that does not include the studded skull on the left, I just threw him in for decoration.
But I still think it’s quite a bargain!
No, that does not include the studded skull on the left, I just threw him in for decoration.
But I still think it’s quite a bargain!
>Those are really creepy. Seriously. My goodness!
>Those are awesome!
>These look so easy! I am loving the Halloween/fall tutorials you've been posting. I've got to say though, that I laughed a bit. Nowhere else would "Drill holes in your Skulls" look like such fun.
>Those are so great!! Kinda creepy too, but very clever!!
>That is awesome! Who knew you could make that out of lamps! WOW!
>Those are so rad.
>I love this project, so cool!
>Great project.