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!

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.

Comments

[kirnex]

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]

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

[porcupinemamma]

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]

Nice work!

[PillsHere]

nice job, well done :D

[dadaa]

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

[porcupinemamma]

Hey! Most importantly.  Your chandelier is fabulous!

[porcupinemamma]

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

[porcupinemamma]

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]

Very cool idea. I like it a lot!

[Meggz]

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]

Super fun creation, excellent work and post ;)

[JBizzle]

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]

Lovely

[cherishedpotato]

very nice :)

[bowmaster]

FIRST!!! This idea is awesome.