Homemade Lights for the Playhouse
I knew I wanted something different for the lighting in the playhouse. I quickly decided to create my own lighting out of leftover cans from large cans of tomatoes. At first I thought about creating something with a sailing theme but my artwork consistently moved too far into complicated territory and I wanted these lights to be simpler. I especially didn't want the building of these light fixtures to be any more difficult than necessary because I was on a tight schedule at this point to get the whole playhouse project finished. I decided to create star patterns... one recognizable group of stars for each light. I chose The Big Dipper, The Little Dipper and Cepheus mostly because these star patterns would be easily recognizable and fairly easy to drill into these old cans. I set my drill press on the outdoor kitchen countertop so I could work on this project during a rainy day then I went back to work on some of my many outdoor projects including renovating th
