We were lucky enough to spend our New Year’s holiday in Vegas this year – one of our favorite destination spots. Red Rock gave us complimentary stays that we couldn’t pass up so we packed our suit cases with our warmest clothes and headed out to enjoy the sun and sights. Oh, and we hauled out our camera equipment to catch the bird viewing sites and local State Parks. When we left home it was heading into the teens around here and when we landed in Vegas it was a balmy…. what the ?!? 30 degrees. The high was only getting into the low 50’s – guess no pool for us hehehehe. I’ll leave the results of the shoots for another post, but all was good on the other fronts – just stayed in a little bit more than usual. Today’s project post idea was inspired by a decoration at the New Year’s Eve party we attended. So without further hesitation I bring you project “A Little Bit of Vegas” … on my mind.
Disclaimer: I do not recommend you try this project yourself do to the dangers involved!
The decoration we saw consisted of a battery operated light at the bottom of a vase filled with those water retaining gel pieces. This resulted in a nice glow effect that looked quite pretty. Now this is an idea I could embrace and extend on. The first element of change was to make the light battery powered so I could put it up in the ledge below our dormer windows in the great room. I also needed to replace the gel fill with glass beads since it would not be easy to change once it was put up there – figured the gel would dry out eventually.
Hit the jump to see how this project came together!
