This tutorial reminded me of a story. When I was a kid, my older brother Tony used to trap minnows in a local stream near our house. Mostly it caught your regular garden variety minnows, but one time the trap turned up a very tiny sunny and bluegill. Too pretty to use as bait, Tony brought them home and put them in our small aquarium with our store-bought goldfish. Their co-habitation lasted about 24 hours, as the next morning we awoke to goldfish parts floating in the water. Who knew sunnies and bluegills were so malicious?! Anyhoo…Britanny spotted a minnow trap at a thrift store recently and decided to turn it into two pendant lamps.
To make them, she used common tools like a needle nose plier, a regular plier and a side cutter. Other stuff used included a couple of candelabra base kits from Lowe’s and a wire coat hanger. Follow this jump for the entire how-to.
For an alternate, low-tech minnow bucket luminary,
check out this idea:
