Once you've done one...

[garishglobes]

I seem to have been developing a theme   

Red flowers and fern leaves chandelier by A flame with desire, on Flickr

Aqua, amethyst and deep purple chandelier by A flame with desire, on Flickr

Ghost white chandelier with hints of colour by A flame with desire, on Flickr

The shades clip in using the spring clip in the existing shade holder - which works really well, something I was surprised to find when I first did this (apologies for the duplicate red chandelier here, but the photo is just so much better!). The lattice effect at the top is fun to put together but what I think I like most about these is that they use blowing and sculpture and colour, all the things I like doing best  What I don't like is that each 'shade' has about 24 hanging pieces.. so around 72 in total. Which, when you start off, seems a bit of a mountain!

Oh, and then there are security lights:

Growing security light by A flame with desire, on Flickr

Which I would like to do again but with squiggles at both ends.

[helbels]

Astounding!!! I absolutely love the blue one!!

[Nicknack]

Gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!  I love the ghost white one (and the blue one, and the red one ).

Nick

[mizgeorge]

love, love, love - and I utterly LOVE the security light idea - genius!!

[Lynnybobs]

Absolutely beautiful!

[Rachels]

Absolutely beautiful.  These are really special.  Love your choice of colours.

[ajda]

I'd love to see these all lit up at night... do you have any pics? It would be great to wire one up with an individual LED inside each flower...

[Rascal]

Blimey they are stunning. Bet they look gorgeous all lit up.

[garishglobes]

Thank you 
We have the red one up and it does look lovely all lit. I'm really, really enjoying playing with lighting but every now and then I feel that I still have a way to go with understanding the actual lighting part.... LED's inside each flower would be a case in point. I have all sorts of plans for lit blown flowers and for table lamps with a short base, shade and LED - but absolutely can't get my head around the mechanics! It'll come....slowly....!

[Pat from Canvey]

I love all three but the red one is something special, I think because it reflects colours found in nature. Do you have a friendly local electrician who can give you a lesson in wiring in small LED lights?

[Pam]

Lost for words, they look absolutely stunning. Just seen them on Facebook, LOVE them, my fav is the reds and green.

[garishglobes]

The red is my favourite too, though the aqua runs it very close. I do have a friendly neighbourhood electrician and you are right, I need to pin him down and get him to explain a few things. Thanks to Glenn, my knowledge of lighting has come on quite a way in the last few months but there are still gaps, possibly because of my butterfly mind! It also seems as if there are a lot of fairly new and interesting LED ideas coming on to the market at the moment, all of them with glass potential  

[Kalorlo]

Oooh, they are gorgeous!

[Pauline]

Ray Skene (Celtic Glass) was a lighting engineer / designer

[garishglobes]

I know