$14 Goodwill Chandelier

$14 Goodwill Chandelier

Okay.. now this baby is a beauty!!  I have seen this type of lighting starting at a $100 +.. See here

and here..  The right pic cost $104.00 and the left $152.00... so what I did is combined the two styles to create this....from

Now I found this bad boy at the Goodwill (don't you love that store) for a whooping $6.96..yep that's right.  Anit it just lovely..lol..

IN THE BUGGIE and I once again raced home

and cracked this boy open..

Ok so don't be mad.. I didn't take a picture of it afterwards...However, if you look closely at the pic up there.. what was left was just the

the 5 arms in that gorgeous brass color...ha!

I spray painted it all white...

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I bought the shade at Tj Max (do u hear the jingle in ur head... Tj Maxxxxx) Ha... on clearence for $3.50...

Now you maynot be able to tell but it has the texture of like snake skin or something and totally pearl white... Next I threaded the cord from the chandelier thru the hole in the top of the shade and removed the ceiling fixture which was.. ughh this...

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While that was coming down I started to make the crystals which would hang from the 5 arm chandelier.  I used strands of beads something like the one below.

I used fishing line and threaded each bead to my style.

Once the fixture was up I draped each one on the arms and Viola!! 
Lets take a look at the before again...

BEFORE!!!

AFTER

click Me!!!.

So what do you think?  Have you made any lighting fixtures lately?  I would love to hEAr your thoughts!