Shabby Chic Fruit BowlCreatively Sam's

When you’re a crafter & people know it, they sometimes give you things thinking that you can do something with it. This project started with a friend giving me a pair of gold & glass cherub lamps that someone had given her. She thought of me because I’m always creating something. I’m going to get 2 or 3 projects from this pair of lamps. Here’s my first one:

This is what the little lamps looked like when I got them:

From a distance, the didn’t look too bad. But once you looked closer, you could see that they were in really bad shape.

There was so much rust & discoloration.

When I took the lamps apart, & cleaned the parts, I was left with these little cherubs. (They’re metal & a little on the heavy side)

I got out the Krylon white satin paint, and painted them on all sides:

Once they were painted, I knew what I wanted to do. I went to the local thrift shop to find a new base & top for it. I found a couple of pieces that I thought would work. But they were a cream color which made the cherubs too white:

I tried to paint the cherub an Ivory color, but it was too dark for the bowls.

So, I dusted the cherub with a light coat of white. It toned down the Ivory enough that it matched the dishes I’d chosen. Once I’d gotten the color right, I got out the E-6000.