Tumbleweed Chandelier

Did you know chandeliers occur in nature? Thanks to the Fibonacci sequence you can easily find dead twigs and tumbleweeds with graduated tiers resembling a chandelier. With a little love and some tweaking you can easily have a sexy centerpiece to grace your dining room. Layer on some string LEDs and you've got a low energy light source as well!

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Step 1: Tumbleweed Shopping

The best places I've found to go tumbleweed shopping are desolate fields such as the dairy land near my folks' house pictured below.

kirnex says: Apr 12, 2011. 9:54 AM

That's great. Question, though: had you considered wiring from the base of the branch down, and hanging the branch upside down? That would have looked great too!

wild_hemlock says: Jul 4, 2010. 11:50 PM

Very inspiring. I will be attempting this in the near future :)

porcupinemamma says: Jun 25, 2010. 5:02 AM

I'm revisiting your Instructable-have you hard wired the chandelier into the socket in the ceiling? If not, how do you turn it off and on?

Asmodeous says: May 10, 2010. 8:01 AM

Nice work!

PillsHere says: May 9, 2010. 9:54 PM

nice job, well done :D

dadaa says: Feb 7, 2010. 12:37 PM

you can also paint it in white and make it stand in a vase with lights on.

porcupinemamma says: Jan 29, 2010. 9:14 PM

Hey! Most importantly. Your chandelier is fabulous!

porcupinemamma says: Aug 6, 2009. 3:28 AM

Just thinking...I wonder if there might be brown tape that you could wrap the green wires in so that it blended with the wood?

arttechmommy in reply to porcupinemammaJan 29, 2010. 6:12 PM

In crafty stores that sell country type things, they sell brown wired string lights. I just bought some recently!

porcupinemamma in reply to arttechmommyJan 29, 2010. 9:14 PM

Wow! I live in a small town; the nearest craft store is an hour away, but I haven't seen them. Do you think I might find them at a larger store in a city?

scmtngirl says: Jun 4, 2009. 2:59 PM

Very cool idea. I like it a lot!

Meggz says: May 28, 2009. 2:23 AM

I have a lot of kool stuff I have made like this! I used mistletoe to make lamps & lights + table centrepieces & briar forest style hangers for crystals and coloured glass decorations. Even a tabletop Christmas tree for myself & for family. Thanks for your instructable. It is awesome!!

imakeit says: May 27, 2009. 7:23 AM

Super fun creation, excellent work and post ;)

JBizzle says: Apr 22, 2009. 11:05 AM

oh wow! you are so cool. If i had a huge house with a very tall ceiling (like maybe perhaps near stairs) i'd do this on a larger scale with a crape myrtle! they're beautiful trees.

porcupinemamma says: Apr 22, 2009. 2:07 AM

Lovely