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DIY: Mason Jar Garden Lights 3 hours 22 min ago by casasugar 40 Views - 0 comments Considering the prices of garden lights these days, I've been looking for a low-cost alternative. Lucky me, I found a DIY for temporary garden lights you can make from only LEDs, lithium coin cells, mason jars, and a little bit of tape.

These kitchy-catchy hanging lamps below are constructed from old school Tupperware containers. You got your Jello mold, colander, and of course the brutally orange mixing bowl to choose from. You can buy them from Oak Boston, but this would also make an easy DIY project for anyone with hand-me-down kitchenware lying around.

sksullivan667 (I know, but I couldn't find a real or more usable name anywhere) makes light fixtures and other home goods out of car transmission gears and pieces and makes them available to us via Etsy. The pendant lights are my favorite, but he also has coasters, bookends, and desk lamps.

This week's EMS Labs project is about creating a set of temporary garden/outdoor lights using LEDs, coin cell batteries, and Mason jars. Easy. Cheap. Perdy. Quick, easy, temporary, and beautiful LED garden lights Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in DIY Projects | Digg

We all know fluorescent bulbs save money and energy. And we all know they're ugly. But now you can cover a bare bulb with a DIY light-diffusing shade. Bright Idea Shade from Michael Mandiberg on Vimeo. Via Buzz Feed.

If you've got 1,500 straws lying around the house—and i mean, who doesn't—then boy do we have the project for you! The straw lamp can be a unique addition to your decor throuh what looks like a few hours of work that requires little to no coordination.

Some time back, I made some grids for my flash.  If you follow the link, you can see that while they worked pretty well, they weren’t exactly very pretty.  In other words, they did the job, but definitely looked home-made.  That was not good.

From Janet: Until now, we’ve thought of chandelier light bulb choices as being limited to the tacky flame-tip variety. But a couple of days ago, we spotted this great idea at Therien Antiques in San Francisco (along with a bonus dripping-in-jewels Danielle Steel sighting).

Previously mentioned on the Ponoko Blog, but worth a reminder is IdeaList Idealist is a platform for designers and creators to publish and share their creativity, get feedback from the community and increase the popularity of their ideas. Idealist is all about ideas, concepts, sketches, designs and new products.

Found on Youtube, here’s a cool video of a guy who used 18 LEDs and an Arduino to fade the lights on a project case. The end result? A machine looking very similar to Knight Rider’s KITT. If you want to build your own, the creator, John Tokash, has included a HOWTO and Arduino code on his website.