Elephant vase and light fixtures turned into a beautiful solar light.

In this picture you will see three pieces I put together.  First on the bottom is a base off another lamp, the white vase in the middle has elephant heads on both sides, on the top is a globe off a light.  I put all these pieces together with a threaded metal bar.  I drilled a hole in the bottom of the elephant vase so it could be secured to the whole thing.

I will also be using this decorative glass piece.  I bought this from a garage sale, as you can see it was really dirty.  The first thing I needed to do was clean it up!

This is a piece off another lamp which I will be using.

The decorative gold piece was off another lamp.

As you can see in this picture I cleaned up the glass vase and added some decorative glass chips inside it and white fake flowers.  I then installed the decorative gold piece on top (which was glued with E6000) I then installed the other piece on top from another lamp.  I spray painted some of the pieces gold which you will notice.

Here is the bottom piece on the left and the top piece on the right .  I will be putting both of these pieces together as you will see in the final picture.  I also added some black on the elephants heads to bring them out better.  I also added some red beads for decoration.

Here is the finished project.  There is a solar light installed on the top, the inside of the glass vase lights up at night.  I also put some marbles in the white bowl looking item just for show.

A nice decorative green lamp and an older oil lamp base turned into a solar light fixture

This is the decorative green lamp I will be using for this project.  The first thing I need to do is take out all the electric.  Also on the left of the lamp you will see an older candle holder that I will also be using.

I will also be using these two pieces for this project.  The glass piece on the right side is the  bottom of an older oil lamp, I bought this at a garage sale the owner didn't have the top piece it had gotten broken.  But I have a different use for it.  On the left is a piece off another lamp.

As you can see in this picture I drilled a hole in the center of the older candle holder so the metal bar will go through it.

This is what it looked like after I put the bar through it and added a bolt to hold it together.

The bar runs through the center of the lamp and into the older candle holder.

Unless you haven't noticed yet I spray painted some of the pieces black so they would look better with the lamp.  I then added the glass bottom from the old oil lamp in the middle of the candle holder and also added the other lamp piece on top.  The very top has a solar light top installed.  I also put solar lights in each of the areas where the candles would have been put on the candle holder.

This is what it looks like now.  You can turn any lamp into a solar light.  This lamp would work good for when the lights go out in the winter or springtime.  You don't have to worry about candles either.

A bunch of solar light creation I did, maybe give you some ideas! Raggedy Ann, The blessed Mother Mary, Beauty and the Beast, A ship, Children on a swing, a bear on top of an antique coffee pot and more....

This is the Raggedy Ann solar light fixture.  In this photo you can see the base which was an old candle holder attached to a piece off an old white lamp.  The top you can see a globe from another light with a cap from another light fixture.  The solar light is located at the very top.  At night raggedy add lights up for a nice night light for a childs bedroom. I have it in a dark room so you can see the solar light lighting up.  I added some fake pearls around the base of Raggedy Ann.

This is a closeup of the top.  The glass globe has etched glass.

This is an antique coffee pot which I used just the bottom, the top I used for another project a while ago.  I added to the top a plastic caboose.  This caboose was a white plastic item which came with flowers in it from one of the flower companies that you order flowers from.  It was white so I painted it to match the color that I painted the coffee pot. The coffee pot started out as silver, now it's gold with detail work on it.  I put the whole thing together with a threaded bar.  I had to drill a hole in the bottom of the coffee pot and also the flower holder (Caboose).  This  goes to show you what you can do with the flower holders after the flowers die off.  On the inside of the caboose I added a teddy bear figurine, small fake flowers and also steeples on both sides of the bear.  On the very top I added a little statue of a woman which was the top of a pen.  I drilled two holes in the top of the caboose for the solar lights.  This also lights up on the inside at night.  

This was a childs lemonade holder (a toy)  Well I had a different idea for it.  I took out the insides of it and added it to a base of a lamp.  I then put a statue of a boy and girl on a swing on the inside with fake flowers.  Under the boy and girl I added sparkle felt for the ground under them.  In front I added an angel and decorative octagon shape item that has birds on it.  I spray painted this item black with some gold.  The little boy and girl light up at night.

This used to be a claw machine, a toy.  I put a water fountain in it, I painted it gold and added some marbles in the area where there would be water to make it sparkle.  I also added fake flowers and an angel.  You can do a lot of different scenes with a claw machine.  The inside of the scene lights up at night, I drilled a hole in the top and installed a solar light.

This used to be a hanging light.  If you turn it over you can see the light fixture.  I added a glass  bowl to the top of the fixture and marbles on the inside.  I also added a solar light which lights up the marbles at night and shines through the curved glass on top.  I also added solar lights in the area where there would have been light bulbs, as you can see on the bottom.

This is a view of some of the other solar light fixtures I did using candle stick holders, pieces off old lamps, marbles, old water holder. You can also see an M&M machine which I attached to a candle holder base.

This is a close up of the solar light creations.

This is another close up.

Here are some more of the solar light fixtures.

In this photo you can see Raggedy Ann in her solar fixture.

This is a close up of raggedy ann.

This is an older metal bubble gum machine which I put together with a lamp base, On the inside is crystal looking marbles and a ship.  When this lights up at night people tell me it looks like a storm around the ship.

When it was my daughters wedding I made this one.  It's a plastic bubble gun machine which I added to the inside ( Beast)  from Beauty and the beast, he is holding the dome with the rose in it.  I also added a white arbor around him and fake leaves.   You will see what I added to the bottom of the gum machine in the next photo.

I added a rose in the base with some rose petals lying on the bottom to make it look like the rose is losing it's leaves.  Where the gum comes out I put some more rose petals. The inside of this bubble gum machine lights up at night.

This is another view of the solar lights.

In this photo are two PVC pipes which I spray painted green and the other black.  I added some pieces off light fixtures and solar tops on top.

This is hard to see, but it's tinkerbell inside an old light fixture.  I installed this on top of a PVC pipe which I painted red to match the light fixture that I painted red.

Here is Mother Mary.  I purchased this statue of mother Mary inside of a plastic dome,  I decided to add a base under her which was an older light fixture from the 1920's.  In order to be able to get a solar light to light up mother mary at night I glued a piece off another light fixture to bring up the height and installed a top of a solar light.

This is a closeup of the 1920's light fixture, it is was turned upside down you would be able to see it as a light fixture.   I always buy any lamps or pieces of light fixtures I can find from Flea Markets or Garage Sales you never know what you can use it for.  I hope these pictures give you some ideas.  Mother Mary lights up nice in my home at night, just make sure you let your solar lights charge in the sun during the day.  If the electric ever goes out you will still have electric.  My whole front lawn lights up at night and my back yard.