WINE RACK LAMP

This little bar lamp is another one of those projects that I've had in mind for a couple of years and finally got around to while my friend Judy was here. 

The wine rack was a thrifted find and cost a whopping 87 cents.  I thought I would paint it and actually use it to hold wine, but it was too wobbly and quite honestly, too small.  I know, it holds 7 bottles of wine and I don't mean small in the quantity sense, because that's a couple of days weeks worth, right?  No, it's small as in the diameter of the holes.  Some of my favorite wines don't fit in those little circles.  Of course, I couldn't just toss it.  No.  Here it is in all of it's sad homeliness on the day I bought it.

I decided I wanted to make a bar lamp out of it.  I had already made that awesome little wooden corkscrew wall hanging for a guest post for my friend Deneen at Dreaming In Color.  (She's fabulous and I actually got to meet her and spend a fun day with her in Tennessee.)  I figured a cute lamp or bar sign would be nice to go with it.

Wine Corkscrew Wall Art

The first thing I did was take it apart and take it to my father-in-law to cut down the spindles and make it narrower. (Since it wasn't holding wine bottles, it didn't need to be so deep.)  After it was cut down, we painted it with Amy Howard At Home One Step Paint in Black.  This is a chalk-based paint and I love it for it's smoothness and true black color.  Then we waxed it with Miss Mustard Seed Clear Wax.  When I say we, I mean Judy....

This was her first time painting with chalk paint and I think she's a believer because I'm heading out to Arizona in April to help her paint her dining room table and chairs!  (It's not very often that I get to teach her something new.)
While she was here we took an overnight (2 nights actually) roadtrip down into Arkansas and in a cute little papershop in Fayetteville, we found some awesome paper that had a wax coating on it.  We cut circles out of it and used some Alene's Turbo Tacky glue to adhere it to the inside of the rack.

Then, Judy figured out how to get the paper on the sides for some extra "glo-power" by creasing it and then glueing it into the inside.

And right here friends is where I completely fell down as a blogger because before we glued the sides on we used some velcro and thumb tacks to attach a string of small battery operated twinkle lights to the inside of the lamp.  So....please enjoy this close-up of the inside....

Anyway... I really liked the way this lamp turned out and may convert it to an electric after I figure out how to make Sam a really cool bar.  In the meantime, we'll continue to use this cabinet as storage for our merriment.

Now I feel the need to make him some kind of sign because every blogger knows you need "3" to make a vignette...even on a bar wall.  I should mention that I hung this light on the wall.....

and then quickly realized I needed to do it in a more secure way because the Golden Child tends to slam that door to the patio.  So in the meantime, it sits on the corner of the bar and looks cute in all it's geometric patterned glow-y-ness.

I love the way it glows at night, when maybe after a few glasses of wine you need some ambient lighting....

Anybody got any great ideas for a fun bar sign that might go with this lamp and my corkscrew piece??  

Another unfinished project finally completed!  Thanks again Judy, you are the best!!  

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