What is the cone thing inside?

patti

That is too cute!! That will look great lit at night. Good job!!
Deb

The green glass cone is actually a votive holder whose's base was broken

Very nice, I like it. I've used the glass electrical insulators turned upside down in the bed springs with a tealight inside of it. They're heavy though and I just use them on a table or even on the porch floor among the flower pots I have out there. They light up the plants/flowers and it's a nice evening glow.

Sal

Cool candle holder! The bedspring idea reminds me of an idea in Sue Whitney and Ki Nassauer's book Decorating Junkmarket Style. They took a bed spring, put an artichoke in it and stuck a candlestick in the artichoke. There was a picture of about half dozen of them in a row on a dining room table. Looked very neat. I'll have to keep an eye out for bed springs now ...

One day I'm going to cut down the tree growing through some old bed springs in the back forty:) I'd love to have candles or solar lights in them all around my back deck.

Nice! Speaking of bedsprings, I have 2 buckets full of them and have been trying to come up with a way to stick them into the ground like landscape lights. I then will put a votive cup in them with a candle, but they need to be with the wide end up like in the picture above. I've been trying to come up with a way to secure them to the ground so they will stand up. Would like to sell some at the garden fair I'm doing in June. Any ideas? Or any other ideas how to use them as garden junk outside? Most of the finished items I can find are nodders for inside.

Arlene

I've done some using twisted old tree limbs and grapevines that are the width of the opening on the bottom of the spring and then gluing the spring to the branch with liquid nails and poking the other end into the ground, also lined our driveway one year for a party using old leftover 12 guage copper wire. 3 strands of the stripped wire hugging the base and then twisted together and stuck in the ground. Don't know if this helps you with what you're looking to do.

you can use rebar and the bottom end of the spring can be opened and wired to the rebar. I would use a heavy 'bailing' wire.

rebar would be a great idea, could even bend it into a sheppard's hook and with some s hooks, hang the springs, I see more spring lights springing up again!

Thanks for the ideas - I will keep experimenting!
I've never had very much luck bending rebar. Is there a secret to it?
Arlene