Miz Chan's Present!

Monday was the Big Day for Miz Chan and Tues was a bigger day for both of us...
So decided to do abit of shopping at Wisma, bras basah's Art Fiend and Ikea(which I feel is still the best place to source for custom gift ideas to sian xiao mei mei etc....)for the present.

And this was wat I made wif the stuff :

THE present:

Ok....here's a short description of the process....

Firstly since Miz Chan mentioned she wanted a ring(stop sniggering ur nose off already. Both of us definitely not in the mood for marriage yet! She just wan one for the aesthetics of it.)so I got her one at bit and pieces. But no....this falconz/flashaholic/man-maid/siao-lang couldn't have left it at there right? I can't possibly give such a boooring present!

In comes the decorations!!!:
Bought one of those fake hurricane lamps from ikea which I already long felt was a good decorative item. It'll make a good display case for the ring.....
Then I noticed that the head section was hollow and "fun stuff" can be hidden in there....heheeheh....inspirations start oozing in liao!!!

To fix the Ring to the centre of the Lamp, I used one of these candle. The lamp was suppose to be designed for such stuff anyway:

One of those aromatherapy candles:

Used a butane torch and melted the centre portion before inserting the Ring which will then "stand up" for display! Then the candle wif the ring will be stuck in the centre of the lamp.

Next will come the cutting and pasting of decorative strips of blue foam and cotton wool (from Art Fiend) which can be seen in all the pics...

And finally......
Remember the Hollow in the head portion which i mentioned?
From Sim Lim Tower I sourced a few electronic parts: battery holder(I modded it further to hold more batteries), 26 AWG wires, solder wire, butane soldering pen, switch......(not all in pic)

Some of the tools:

I soldered a simple but effective circuit to a 26K mcd 5mm bi-pin LED and hidden them all inside the Hollow head using Blu-Tack and sticky tapes wif the LED pointing down on the main topic: the Ring!

and a handy switch at the top!

And it's done!!!!!

Here's a few shots of the lamp wif the LED on!!

Cool Eh? hehe

Nice?

Note to Our wushu baby: Did you notice the STARS shaped shadows and light cos of the STAR shaped holes on the lamp? ahhaahahah.....

Hopefully this will not be my final project yet .....