Candy Dish gets DIY’ed

The candy dish gets DIY’ed!

I’m in need of simple lately.

This is simple.

Perfect for Easter candy.

 

Candy Dish Gets DIYed

I found the coolest light globes at the ReStore.  I’ve been checking out the goodies at the ReStore about once a week lately.

Ever since I found these beauties!

These light globes are different on the top…or bottom…not sure which way they originally sat.  Usually, light globes have a larger opening with a lip and those little screws that hold the globe…unless you don’t tighten all the screws enough and it comes crashing down.

For my candy dish…this is the bottom.

I know this is an ugly picture.  It’s the inside of one of those organs.  The one that I used to make…

the garden bench
a faux mantel
Mike’s vintage lamp
pieces decorated this garden bench
a piece of wood for this heart

These little wooden dowels with a wood ring had something to do with each key of the organ.

I pulled out 3 of them and sanded and cleaned them “WELL!”

Then I grabbed a leftover 2 by 4 about 20 inches long and a drill bit the same size as the organ dowel.

Setting each globe on the 2 by4 I marked a drill hole.  Then drill a hole for the dowels.  It was perfect because the wood ring fits right inside the hole of the globe.

I painted the 2 by 4 lightly with oatmeal-colored chalk paint.

Then set the globes over the dowels and added candy.  Yum!

I used this for dried or rubberized hydrangeas too.

If you would like to try this and only find regular globes below are ideas to have them sit on a leftover 2 by 4.

1. Drill larger holes to set the globe down into.
2. Glue wood disks on the 2 by 4 to set the globes over.
3. If you have those cups with the screws, add wood dowels to the 2 by 4 and screw the cups in place.  Then screw the globes into the cups as you would on the light fixture.  Just screw the screws down tight! 🙂