Trash 2 Treasure 6, Variations on a Theme

On a recent mining the curbs outing I found 10 solar lights, some the dollar store variaty and some fairly nice ones, all of them worked! I then kept my eyes open for interesting objects to attach the lights to. The table I am working at is a combination of curb finds as is the hotglue gun !

You can purchase or repurpose all these supplies or use others, here is what I found and or bought.

Found:
 solar lights
 empty wine bottle
 empty liqueur bottle
 a large plastic pretzel container
 hotglue and gun
 marbles

 Purchased:
 glass candle holder/vase $1.us
 decorative glass rounds $6.us
 
 

very simple, run a bead of hotglue around the mouth of the bottle and stick the solar light in place. the bottles are heavy enough that they won't blow over in the wind

the large plastic container needed some kind of weight. I had a small bucket of marbles I'd found but that would barely make a dent in the bottom of the container. A quick trip to the dollar store were I found a glass cylinder that would take up some of the space and possibly allow the light to shine through the marbles, I also grabbed a couple bags of glass rounds.  I put some hotglue on the bottom of the glass and stuck it to the bottom of the plastic container

The glass cylinder didn't leave a lot of room for large hands holding a bunch of marbles, I was dropping marbles all over the place until I put them in a plastic shopping bag, tore off one corner and VIOLA, the marbles went where I wanted them very easily! I then added the glass blobs. I may need a couple more dollars worth to fill the conatiner

I cut a circle from the center of the lid that the "lens" of the solar light would fit tightly into and then ran a bead of hotglue around the bottom side

there you go, several unique ways to have solar lights on your outdoor tables. I'll try to get pictures after dark of how they look
update: trying to get pictures of the lights at night was a miserable failure, the large plastic container throws a lot of light and the light reflects off the glass blobs and onto the glass table but after a dozen pictures none showed much more than a glow. The whiskey bottle also throws neat reflections from its angles while the wine bottle just glows with very little reflection