Not my light bulb planter, unfortunately
Earlier this morning, after scoffing down four Ferrero Rocher chocolate balls and reading all the new posts in Google Reader, I realised didn’t really have much to do today besides reading a book and texting people, so I decided to have a look at the starred items in Google Reader, and came across a Lifehacker post on turning old burnt out light bulbs into terrariums/vases.
The concept and the pictures were cool, so of course I wanted to do it straight away. What’s cooler than a little light bulb vase next to your monitor? The Lifehacker post linked to these easy to follow instructions on how to hollow out your own light bulb.
After hunting around the house for a while, I found an old burnt out light bulb, which was perfect, except for the fact that it was the kind that you push down and turn, rather the type that screws in. I went ahead and used it anyway, going on the assumption that all light bulbs are more or less the same.
Unfortunately for me, the inner workings of my light bulb were totally different from the bulb in the blog post.
According to the instructions, once you got the base open, you would be able to use a pair of pliers to remove the filament but my lightbulb looks like it was made out of one whole piece of glass, making it difficult to remove the filament without shattering the glass.
It looks like this craft experiment is at a dead end until I go out and buy a screw in light bulb.
Sigh.
