Too Hot to Handle, Part 2

So remember those leftover pages from the Dave Ramsey Book?  

They found a new life as an entry way light at our house!  

Here is how:

I used a metal hoop I had leftover from a failed project,

and attached wire, to make a bicycle wheel looking frame.

 I took all those pages I had cut out of the middle of my book...

 and used a circle punch to make a lot of circles.

 The step I didn't take pictures of was to feed the circles

 through the sewing machine to make chains of 4, 5, and 6 circles.

I attached them to the frame using a hot glue gun. 

I think it's beautiful like this, and would make a nice modern mobile to hang. 

And, bonus, since the book is a murder mystery,

 the little phrases you catch on each circle can be very, um, interesting...

I couldn't stop here though because we have a light fixture I've been wanting to change for a long time, and this seemed like the perfect fix. 

I added one more row of paper chains to a large embroidery hoop

 and connected them to the mobile with more wire.

As Kai would say, "Tadaa!"

I love it! 

So much better than the Menards light we had!

 It casts a really fun pattern on the ceiling and walls too.  

*****

 My next job is to replace the bulbs I have for some compact fluorescents so I don't start a fire.

eek!