DUH! Sorry for the misspelled subject title!! (brinstorm)

Sharon, I have bought the clip in night-light size bulbs at crafts stores, I think Micheals. I am not sure if your box will have a back? If not you should be able to put it in the wood at the top or the bottom of the box. These do have a cord on them to plug in and I am not sure if you want that? I can take a pic and post it if you want. I am sure I still have one or two left.

Do you have a photo of where this would be placed? Is there alredy a connection for it on the wall??

If you look in the large craft stores they have special paints used to create fake stained glass. The ones I use do not need to be heated up - you just paint it on and let it sit overnight. It comes out of the tube kinda like fine foam but cures to a clear dark color and fuses completely to the glass.

If you could find a lighted shadowbox for outside use that already comes with a clear piece of glass - you could simply design a simple pattern (could be abstract or very stained glass-ish) that features the house numbers in the center (I'd make them as big as possible).

Paint the glass by filling in the pattern but leave the numbers raw without any paint. The same paints have special colors that mimic leading for making the fake stained glass - I like the gold color but most people use the black. This paint is more firm and stays puffed up like a ridge so it really acts like cane leading in stained glass work. I would outline at least the numbers in it to keep them clear and distinct.

If the box isn't coated with anything I would paint it dark on the outside and pale yellow on the inside or line it with foil or copper sheeting (available at the same craft store but costly).

After the painted stain glass front is in place and the small light is turned on your shadowbox would look like stained glass with the house number glowing soft yellow/gold.

Finding the shadowboxes for outside use will be the biggest problem and where to place them so that they can be plugged in would be another problem. If you can find the boxes - you can always find small sheets of acrylic at the lumber yard instead of glass. It should work just as well and be a lot safer to work with.

If you use the faux stained glass the box wouldn't have to be big at all, just big enough for whatever lite source you decide. You could easily build a box for it and use plexiglass for the glass. I have an old light box in my kitchen and I used that for a new "stained glass" fixture. It worked great. And you could mount it and use it as a "wall" porch lite too. That would be really neat. Hmm that gives me an idea...........

I've already said this to Sharon in a personal email, but you could just make a fake stained glass panel on either a small square of glass or acrylic and then prop it up in a streetside window. Wouldn't have the same impact of a shadowbox but the whole process and project would be simpler.

Sharon...do you live in Florida? What part? I'm in Palm Bay.