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Sun, Jun 8, 08 at 19:00
| I was poking around in Garden Junk forum and was inspired to post this by Calamaty J. Her post "Garden Bling".
I love insulators. I made lots of these tea light holders and sold most of them but I do have this one left. What are ya'll doin with them? |
Here is a link that might be useful: Insulator tea lite holder
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- Posted by calamity_j (My Page) on Sun, Jun 8, 08 at 19:46
| Insulators can be pricey when you are a collector of them, but I just buy mine at thrift stores! |
Here is a link that might be useful: Blue Insulators
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| I have some I dug out of a mound in the desert where they burned a lot of telegraph pole years ago. I even dug up some old wood mounting pegs with the screw cuts on one end. Now let's see where did I put those darn things? Robert |
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| I just have mine on an old cupboard. I think they're pretty neat. |
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- Posted by chickencollecter (My Page) on Mon, Jun 9, 08 at 0:50
| Mine are packed away in a couple of boxes.....somewhere. I really like your tea light holder, Fernie. |
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- Posted by craftylady-2006 (My Page) on Mon, Jun 9, 08 at 18:49
| Now this is the prettiest insulator tealight holder I've seen yet. I really love the wire design on it. I've just got mine in the old bedsprings for a base. Sal |
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| A tealight holder is a very pretty way to use the insulators. I like yours very much. What kind of wire did you use? |
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- Posted by concretenprimroses (My Page) on Tue, Jun 10, 08 at 12:12
| Fern I like your holder. Calamity yours looks like a chandelier. nice work both of you. I have some insulators somewhere... Kathy |
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| Thanks everyone. I'm still hoping for some more ideas though. Shysue, I used galvanized wire for these. I have done some with silver and copper, but it gets alittle pricey. |
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- Posted by kudzukween (My Page) on Thu, Jun 12, 08 at 8:43
| I set some on top of my old dusk to dawn lights. It looks great,especially the blue glass ones. They were a perfect fit. ...well, I couldn't find the photo I took of it, but it's just the Malibu lights that I took the clear plastic cover off and replaced with the glass insulators. If I don't find it later, I'll take another. |
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| I've seen them put on metal stakes (so that the insulator is close to the ground) and used to protect flower beds from hoses. Looks really nice! |
Here is a link that might be useful: I'd like to have this collection!
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| Oh Kudzu, I need pictures. What a great idea. Lydia, that is a wonderful idea. I need that too as I run my hose into everything! I have a box of the darn things somewhere, I need to find them now. Thanks |
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| Hi, I'm Kathy from Texas. I have a few insulators. In fact I just bought 2 more from ebay. I love the ones that have wings on them. Reminds me of angels. I gotta get me some of those. I want to somehow make pathway lights out of them using pvc pipes. I haven't found anything yet on what to use for the light part. I guess maybe some outdoor christmas lights? I just don't know if they will be strong enough to cast any light. |
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| bought some at a rummage sale years ago, I painted them to look like snowmen. Little ribbon around their "necks". works for me. |
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| here's mine!
I got the idea from the junk market girls.. Su & Ki |
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- Posted by butterbeanbaby (My Page) on Sun, Jun 29, 08 at 18:13
| I have mine sitting on the tops of my fence posts. I just drill a bolt into the top of the post and stick them on. None have ever fallen off, and I like the look. |
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- Posted by sherril_2008 (My Page) on Wed, Jul 2, 08 at 1:23
| I just stopped over from the garden junk forum! This looks like another great place to hang out and learn! Here are my insulators. I call this my toadstool garden. Just painted some wooden stakes green, pounded them into the ground and screwed the insulators onto them.
I took the pictures in the early spring with the snow still around them and thought it was quite pretty. Sherril |
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| What a great idea! Thanks. I love those ceramic brown ones. |
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