Simple Thoughts #2:Upcycled Decorative Solar Garden Light

Dear Steemit friends :

My son's ceiling fan died so he had to replace it ~ but not until I cannibalized it!
One of the pieces I kept was the globe.
Do I make a bird feeder, planter...so many ideas.
Then I thought what a way to use up some of ALL those glass gems I keep ending up with.
It seems at yard, garage, thrifts, estate, etc. sales, a lot of the glassware comes filled with these glass gems. It's not the gems I want it what they're in - but they come together.
So they've just been adding up in my supplies.
If you aren't "lucky" to find them this way,
you can always pick some up at the Dollar Store.
The globe
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The globe, all those glass gems and since this was going outside I used GE Silicone.

Next I roughly drew a Dragonfly and a water lily with a pencil onto the globe.

I had really huge heavy clear ones that I placed around the edge of the globe.
I used tape to hold them in place until they cured.

As you can see the wings didn't turn out like I had (hoped) drawn them.
And the Water Lily was a bust.
So I decided to go with just simple flowers.
The light blue and green I used for the wings are kind of "cats eye" like, not sure if that's the right term. They have a shape in a darker shade, inside. A leaf shape maybe. Anyway I thought maybe that would help make the wings more "dragonfly" like.

I filled in the background on the top with clear gems and pale peach on the bottom.
Wishing I had some pale blue for the bottom to represent water, but oh well, I was using up what I had.
I'm happy with the way it turned out ~ not bad for my first time doing this type of thing :)
It didn't take long to make and was easy. The hardest part was waiting for it to cure - luckily it was a rather flatish surface, so not much trouble with the gems sliding off, except for the huge ones along the edge.

I removed the light itself and placed it under the globe, stuck in the ground just a bit..
Was not too happy with the darker spot in the middle.
I snagged a globe solar from another area in my garden.
Due to the different style, I needed to drive the entire "holder/stake" into the ground.

The globe just lights the center :(
Not strong enough ~ Disappointing

So I guess it's back to the cheapy solar, unless I find something else down the road. It's actually growing on me :)
For more info and what I've since used more glass gems on (trying to use them up!) check out: http://dragonflytreasure.blogspot.com/2017/07/upcycled-decorative-solar-garden-light.html