Tuesday, March 10, 2026

An upgrade to the squid jars

A large liquid-filled jar holding a candelabra light bulb with copper wire and broken glass attached to the base to make it look like a squid over broken glass and translucent rocks that are lit from the bottomWay back in 2008, I filled a big jar with mineral oil for the lovely Manon and put a candelabra light bulb in it with other stuff so it looked like a giant squid. A number of years later, I did a smaller version. 

They both looked pretty cool when well lit, but there was something missing.

Recently it came to me. 

I had some cheap LED lights that didn't work any more, but when I got out my soldering iron and wire strippers, I managed to get them working again with an old transformer (don't let anyone tell you to get rid of those things). 

An old tuna can worked perfectly as the base for the smaller jar and a biscuit tin from Dollarama perfectly fit the larger jar. 

The squids now go very nicely with the lava lamps on top of the piano.

A smaller liquid-filled cylindrical jar with glowing translucent rocks at the bottom and skinny little Christmas tree lights above and a small globe with wires trailing that looks like a squid

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