Again while browsing today I came across this interesting online shopping arcade full of home-made products by artisans. Not exactly a new idea about it is an interesting site.
The first boutique that caught my eye was Sheri’s Crystal Designs. Now that I’ve been browsing it for several minutes, I just had to bookmark it and felt almost sad to (ctrl + W) – say goodbye!
It seems full of very elegant mini crystal chandeliers and generally within the antique French genre. She describes it as reborn antique.
Antique French mini crystal chandelier
Crystal Wind Chime with Beautiful Purple and Turquoise Gems
She has created a crystal wind chime which again looks a very attractive little piece. Knowing its handmade makes all the difference and if you’re at all into the theory and practice of feng shui, you will realise and appreciate the value of this.
You can apparently place it in the garden but I think I would rather have it in a bedroom that catches the sunlight, and preferably the morning light. A very innovative creation – thank you Sheri! as she says, this is the perfect little Mother’s Day present – in fact a present for all occasions – particularly if you feel the need for some online shopping therapy.
Filed under mini chandelier by on May 1st, 2010. Comment. 
I’m sure we all know the addictive qualities of sites like YouTube – I came across a couple that piqued my interest. The first was a revolving mini chandelier which just struck me as very unusual. I couldn’t really make out the design clearly at first so that got me putting in the effort to look in to it more closely. It certainly makes for a very interesting feature in any household.
The designer describes the actual lampshades is being propeller like that are balanced on top of the steel tip. The circular motion is generated through the updraught of hot air from the halogen lights that are used. So the whole structure must be actually quite flimsy or at least very light for there to be so much motion from the hot air convection.
There are three halogen lights, each on their own branch, each having one small revolving, see-through lampshade making the three inner shades. Then the whole of the three armed chandelier has an outer lampshade which also revolves from the combined heat of the three bulbs. So you end up with four revolving shades all constructed of a diaphanous see-through, obviously lightweight, plastic I would have imagined. Worth clicking on the video.
Halogen lights eco-friendly or not?
The designer was commenting that he needed to use halogen lights to create sufficient heat for the revolving motion. However he suspects that the halogen bulb may soon be banned for its excessive use of energy. Certainly halogen bulbs do get very hot but they also provide a reasonably efficient amount of light per unit energy since they normally run at a lower voltage and power rating then the traditional incandescent bulbs which are being phased out. They also have the advantage of being constructed of less toxic substances than CFLs, which as I recently mentioned in a recent post, use mercury within their lighting process and construction. I suspect that halogen lights will be around for some years to come.
Turbine Power in Creative Eco-Designs
I would like to see designers incorporating the use of wind power to make a self-lighting chandelier of this revolving kind. (As I thought of that, it I also brought to mind the old ‘mad’ scientists’ futile attempts to create perpetual motion machines.)
Now that sounds like a project worth investigating! Anyone up for it?
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I came across this cute Cow Over the Moon mini chandelier for a baby’s room which I thought was worth a closer look. You can actually have the chandelier personalised to include the child’s names and date of birth, at no extra cost. Of course if you plan to have several children, you may prefer to leave the name and date off.
There are two different product designs, one with three arms (or branches, as they are sometimes called) and one with five – the one in the picture has five branches. You have various options to choose from for further customising it and they will cost more:
- If you want to add hanging crystals to it (which you can see in the picture), you actually choose between different qualities of crystal at different prices.
- You can add chandelier lamp shades to the lights.
There is some flexibility with changing the shade design to one of your preference though there may be a charge for this. For instance they give you options of having - Lampshades covered in that Tinkerbell fairy dust. Alternatively you could choose between some
- Ostrich boa which will be hand tinted. They even have
- Local artists whom they employ to produce a completely unique design pattern
In fact, if you choose to go with the hand painted chandelier shades option and make it a completely unique shade, that would be also adding more interest to it as a possible future family heirloom.
As I explored further, I noticed they have at least 10 different designs with the same customisability and here is a photo of their Safari Walk about 3- arm Chandelier. In my opinion the cow over the moon is actually the cutest.
For those who are into creating a theme around this, you can even get matching lamps and all sconces.
Filed under mini chandelier by on Mar 30th, 2010. Comment.
