Altered Art: Solar Light Post Roses

There was an adage in my first career as a doctor, that goes along the lines of ‘see one, do one, teach one’. Today, I saw a Youtube video where a copper tube magically became a copper rose. Me, being me, thought ‘I’ll have a go at that’…

Meanwhile, in the garden, I’d just been sorting through the solar lights that, well, still lighted up. Most didn’t and I’d kept the stainless steel posts that they were on, just in case they became useful. And because I had those, and didn’t have copper pipe, stainless steel roses were on the cards. Here’s what I made this afternoon. Each rose has a diameter of approx. 10cm and now takes me just 25 minutes to make.

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