Swinging from the Chandeliers!

 

Not really!!

But we are loving this new addition to our screened in porch.

 

 

Not an original idea at all. I first saw this on Pinterest

 but I didn't pin it so I can't get you to the original link.

I knew it would be perfect on our porch so it stuck in my mind.

 

 

I gathered up 2 small Hula Hoops - one College Girl won at Relay for Life and one from Dollar Tree.

I had a roll of white Duck Tape (but if you don't, $3.00)

I had one strand of icicle lights with white cord and a variety of other Christmas lights that I had bought at Christmas or the end of the season Summer sales (patio lights).

The lights would be less than $5.00 if you had to buy them new.

This time of year the lights are in the Summer Patio section or Bridal section and online.

Then I started wrapping the Hula Hoops with the white tape. Once I finished that I used white zip ties ( I bought a zillion white ones at Harbor Freight for $1.99)

But you could wrap the lights if you didn't want to get the zip ties.

 



 

 Just wrap the lights around and around. As many as you like.

I used a strand of regular twinkle lights, a strand of icicle lights

and a strand of clear ball shaped patio lights because I had them.

I still need a strand of icicle lights for the second chandelier.

 

Here is the "in progress shot" and it looks like a tangled mess!!

 



I had to buy white chain to hang them with.
 I tried white clothesline that I had but $5.00 worth of white plastic chain worked much better.

 

I screwed a cuphook in the rafter and hung it from the chain.

They weigh practically nothing.

I ran a white extension cord to each one and TA-DA!!

 

Our table is long ( 3 outdoor patio tables pushed together) so I made two.

And then we waited for it to get dark and we "tested" them out

 by having really big blackened shrimp tacos for dinner!