These lights look pretty right? We (my husband, my children and househelpers) made these.
I saw these colored lights hanging on a tree at my friend's yard. When I saw them, I told my husband that "we can make lights like those ourselves". And the next day, we purchased the materials we imagined to be used: chicken wire, bulb suckets, tie wires, electrical tapes, colored plastic sheets (1 meter for each 6 colors), and electrical wires.
My husband cut the chicken wire sheet into appropriate sizes (with a PVC big pipe as guide), then I helped in closing the cut sheets and shape them into cylenders. Tie wires were attached to each cylender to strengthen the frame. Buld suckets were then attached before I taped the colored plastic sheets on each frame.
Wirings were done by my husband, light bulbs were attached then we turned the lights on! Wow! Although it took us almost a week to finish all 30 pieces of light framesSeeing those colored lights was already a feeling of fulfillment.
I computed the cost of our project, it costs 50% less than similar lights sold in the stores. It's not the cost of saving that I am counting on, the most important value of that project was that the product was made by us ourselves.
It was more satisfying to know that people who pass by our house and see our colored lights appreciate them.
