Carousel Horse Suncatcher

What to do with a pretty Carousel Horse that needed a some uplifting?

I thought about this for quite a few nights. 

All I could picture in my head was the horse flying in air with ribbon streamers flowing down, 

kind of like a Maypole. 

Why? 

Who knows! 

This was too fancy of a horse to just has ribbon streamers!  

Then my dim light bulb finally shined - a suncatcher! 

Ah, crystals, shiny beads, and of course a few ribbons

I gathered any and all supplies I thought I might need could use,

so excuse my mess- I'm creating here! LOL

The first thing I noticed was that there were roses decorating the horse here and there. I grabbed some small ribbon roses I had, but they weren't small enough. So I cut them down to size and glued them on.

 I only had purple ones. 

 The main color is purple with some aqua.

 I really wanted to bring more aqua out, 

so I painted some aqua. 

Then it hit me!

DUH! 

I had forgotten I had just hit the best Estate Sale of a crafter,

 the day before and hadn't unpacked yet.

I started digging and came across these darling cascading millinery flowers. I thought they would be perfect to drape over her tail -

that's when I realized I was adorning her like a parade horse!

That's OK, I love the horses in all their parade costumes/gear.

   Aren't those cascading flowers perfect?

I love them!

I remembered I had a beaded decoration leftover from a non-functioning pen. That's the 2 short dark purple bead strands with bells on the ends that you see on this side. They are attached to a lavender flower which has a bow on it.

 ~ Next was the most difficult part ~

Hence probably the reason for no photos

Threading the prisms, spacers and beads

Attaching them where I wanted them

Trying to get the end bows to look a like

And just plain wanting it all to turn out to be what I could see in my minds eye ~

Oh and the ribbon streamers, top and bottom

Not done yet.

After attaching the bottom streamers I still needed to add two more "prism danglers'' to the center post. After a bit of finagling I got it just right but wanted it to be a little more secure than just tied and glued. I found a lampwork bead at the bottom of my stash that had a hole big enough to fit the pole, Amazing! Added a touch of glue and felt much better.

Next was to finish off the end of the pole.

I encircled it in a strand of tiny gold beads ending with an aqua star

and an iridescent bicone bead.

  

Done?

Uh, something is missing ~~

I know!

Glitter nail polish on the roses!!

Here she sits drying for her last time.

BTW, like her drying stand? LOL

Old odd vases do come in handy at times ;)

*Here she is in all her glory*

 

She was hanging near a window and when the sun came in the colors that came shining through were wonderful. A small breeze came up and she began to jingle too. 

A sweet light jingle with rainbow colors and ribbon streamers.

It's a good day :)