While at a Goodwill store, I found an interesting old, what looks like a metal coffee filter of some kind.
It had three cool legs on it already, and I could tell right away that it was going to become a rocket.
I went down to Home Depot, found some small plastic plumbing "elbow" joints that I used for the thrusters.
The number 7 was a chrome house number that I found at the same place.
I then coated the entire piece with a iron acrylic paint. I added some rusting solution and a patina to the number.
The inside of the piece is stuffed with multi-colored Christmas tree lights that blink. It looks pretty cool in the dark.
4 comments:
I love this piece Randy!
Thank you Fernanda!
Lovely! even if the coffee filter happens to be a jelly bag holder, thus the long "legs". In the old days when people were still making jelly at home, they would lined the "chinois" or Chinese hat with a clean kitchen towel and placed the cooked fruit to drip into a large bowl where the chinois would sit. The result would be a clear liquid that when adding pectin would become jelly. I still like it better as a rocket, however. *smile*
Allegra
Thank you Allegra for letting me know what the original purpose of this "contraption" was! Confusion solved!
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