- Tara, I'm sure you're wondering
what we're doing today.
Amongst other things, yes.
OK.
How do you feel about gold?
I like gold.
Perfect.
So good pop of metals against that rich purple wall
that I know you love--
Lovely.
--is going to be beautiful.
so what I'm going to show you how to do today
is how to make a metal pendant.
SINGER: Make him do just what you love.
Now, do you have any idea what this is?
Uh, I was thinking maybe we were going
to do some sounds bath or something, little ASMR
on a homemade cymbal.
No?
No, definitely not.
What this actually is is a trash can.
But what's nice about this project,
though, is that you can literally
do this with a beautiful mixing bowl, a fruit bowl, baskets.
Whatever you want, you can get your hands on,
I can show you how to make that into a pendant shade.
- All right, show me. - OK.
So we're just going to tape our stencil onto our vessel.
And I want to give ourselves a little bit of a border here,
so it's not sitting super flush.
If you'll grab that painter's tape.
TARA: Sure.
Do a piece right here at the edge.
TARA: I imagine it's important to have
this straight so that your holes aren't
all wonky once you get it up. - Exactly.
The last thing you want is for any of your holes
to be misaligned or for any of the actual stencil
itself to be elevated.
So we're going to do a thin piece of tape that's
just barely over here, so it doesn't
interfere with our stencil.
And we'll come back with our masking paper and tape
off the rest.
OK.
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All right.
Now, from here, we just want to do a couple light sprays.
When you're spray painting, you never
want to do a heavy coat all the way through because that's
when you get drips and runs.
So instead, short bursts, for a project like this,
is the way to go.
Got it.
Do you want to give it a go?
If you trust me.
Just do a couple spritz.
TARA: Oh.
Short quick burst, short quick burst, short quick burst.
Well, luckily, we get to let this dry.
All right.
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Now that all of our spray paint has dried,
we're actually waiting for the next step, which
is just removing our stencil.
You can see the beautiful pattern that we have.
TARA: Ah, I didn't do so bad. - Right.
So what we want to do is we're going to come back to some
of these larger holes, and we're going to drill some of those
out using a drill bit that's the same size as that largest hole.
Now, when we do this, we're going to be pushing into it,
so it's going to flex a little bit.
But it's also hard because you don't
want to keep your hand directly under where
the drill's going to go.
So a good tip for that is to use a piece of scrap wood.
So I like to just hold it, and that'll
essentially catch the drill bit before it
goes all the way through.
We're going to line it up and just start a little bit slowly.
Whoo. TARA: Nice.
So if we do have any of these small little burrs,
we can just come back with a nail file
and just file those down.
And they'll go away nicely. - All right.
So we'll be doing these two next.
TARA: All right.
So again, just take your time because we
don't want the bit to wander.
SINGER: (YELLING) 1, 2, 3, 4!
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Now what we want to do is we want to find the dead center
of our bin here, and that's where
we're going to drill our hole. - All right.
Now what we're going to be using
to actually turn this into a light
is literally just a simple swag kit.
So what we need to do is basically
drill a hole that's big enough for the screw-in component
of our swag kit.
So we then just drop it in, screw this back into place,
and it'll hold it all together.
That seems easy enough.
Right, so we're going to be using for this is called a hole
saw a bit, which is one of these guys.
Now, it's kind of a two-part piece, so it has a guide bit.
So this will drive itself in first.
All right, so we're just going to line up our guide bit
and slowly drill all the way through.
Ah, perfect.
Wow.
Right?
TARA: Nice and clean. - Yeah.
And now we have the fun part.
We have our lighting kit.
I will lift this up.
And if you will reach in from the inside
and screw on the flange.
Got it.
Lefty loosey, righty tighty.
All right, so here we go.
It's the new bling for your brand new room.
I love it. Think Bianca's going to like it.
She's going to love it.
And I think she's going to like that I
had something to do with it.
So-- but we'll let her know that I did most of the work, right?
Yeah, we'll go with that.
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