This colorful hanging lamp is made from fallen autumn leaves and a section of salvaged tree trunk. It's nearly free to make since almost all of the parts are provided by mother nature, and helps preserve the awesomeness of autumn all year long in your very own home. Even if it's not autumn where you live, you can still collect and press different types of pleasing foliage - flowers, plants etc...
Luckily I live in Oakland, where the leaves change color for an abnormally long amount of the year - the concept of seasons is certainly confusing to me where I live since the weather is almost always nice, so perhaps it's tricky for the trees to figure out too.
Luckily I live in Oakland, where the leaves change color for an abnormally long amount of the year - the concept of seasons is certainly confusing to me where I live since the weather is almost always nice, so perhaps it's tricky for the trees to figure out too.
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Keep your eyes open for nicely shaped and spectacularly colored fallen leaves. Roam the streets, comb the gutters, get a crook in your neck by staring up at trees and do your wind dance to summon a gust to blow them down to your grasping hands. Green leaves also look great when pressed, so don't think they've all got to be in the prime of their color changing show. Having lots of candidates is a good idea since some of the leaves tend to get damaged in the drying and spraying process (future steps).
This wasn't exactly what it looked like when I collected leaves...
This wasn't exactly what it looked like when I collected leaves...
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Thanks so much for this great idea!