Easy DIY light fixture

Hello and Happy Spring! It finally feels like spring here in Utah and I am both happily enjoying it and fearing it! We don't have an AC in our house(!) and its already promising to be a HOT one. Anyhoo, I did this little chandelier, if you can call it that, because I want to re-do some things in my girls' room this summer and this seemed like a good place to start. I found my inspiration from this lovely ladys' blog. Mine isn't as fancy or big as hers but my girls seem to love it!

                                I started out with a basket I got a yard sale for $1.00

I clipped out the + in the center with wire cutters and spray painted it pink.

This is what the fixture looked like in my girls' room. I took off the bubble, spray painted everything inside it......


                                                                            
                                                                      AND

                                                        this is how it turned out!

I really didn't want to leave it so exposed where the lightbulbs are, but I didn't know what else to do so the pink spray paint helped alot. I got the pearls for 50% off at Michaels and didn't even have to do a thing to them, just strung and tied them up. The glass pendants I got at the thrift store for 2.00.  I will most likely add more pearls and pendants as I find them, but for now, its not a bad start! Like I said, my girls love it and even Mr. H liked it better than the bubble.