My young nieces recently lost their grandma, and I wanted to make something to help in their grief. But - I didn’t have time to wait for my LED bases to arrive, and I didn’t have enough bits to properly assemble the edge lighting with LED strip lights. Soooo… I had super cheap fairy lights that I had to turn in to a solution.
And it worked! I cut teeth out of the square with the etched acrylic, and cut a front frame, back frame, and spacer out of birch plywood. I threaded the fairy lights through a hole in the back frame, then got to work coiling excess wire around a skewer and hot-gluing the LED lights into my teeth cutouts. It took a while, I’m not gonna lie… But really excited about how it looks!
Here’s a pic after hot gluing
Here’s the same pic lit up
And here’s a pic lit up with the front frame held against the back
I made a stand for it, too - but that’s not finished yet update here’s the pic with the stand!
