Any Excuse for Pinterest

So yesterday was obviously Mothers' Day, so my mom & I decided to have a pinterest/craft day. I'd seen these really cute sconces a while ago that we decided to have a go at. This isn't going to be a step-by-step tutorial or anything, just a few cell phone photos. You can find the original blog post from Shanty 2 Chic here.

There were a couple of differences that we decided to go with.  The Shanty's version was 24" long. I thought this would be too big for the space I had in mind, so we went ahead and made them 16" instead. I found the top design really cheap at Michael's and had to buy the finials at a flea market.

 

 

After spray-painting the entire sconce you are supposed to sand the edges and rub stain on it to "antique" it a bit. HOWEVER, the stain soaked through the spray paint I used. I ended up hand-painting them with acrylic paint, and then I could sand and stain them fine.

The last step was to take some mason jars and attach them to the sconces with gorilla glue. I had trouble finding the right size jar though, so in the search I came across these jars at Walmart. They actually had giant candles in them that we dug out =) . Anyway, here's the finished product (minus the little candles that I'll add once they're actually hanging)!