Pinterest Challange: Pendant Light!!

Last week two of my favorite blogs, Young House Love and Bower Power, issued a challenge. A Pinterest Challenge that is!!

For the last few months, I have wanted to replace our Ikea light in the corner of our living room:

I've had my eye on making myself a string pendant light.

Here's my Pinterest Inspiration:

Source: designsponge.com via Karen on Pinterest

Source: madebygirl.blogspot.com via Karen on Pinterest

And with a few simple supplies:

I took on the challenge.

Basically, I Mod Podged the hell out of the string and wrapped it around the beach ball. This was super messy and took a couple hours, while I watched a marathon session of HGTV.

I let it dry for 24 hours:

And then spent another couple hours using a seam riper puncturing and seperating the beach ball from the string and then trying to remove the excess glue from in between the strings.

Like I said, I may have gone WAY over board with the Mod Podge.

Then I cut a hole in my string pendant, and used my old Ikea hanging light to hang up my new light:

So for less than $25 and about 4 hours of time, we have a new light:

I admit, I wish it was a bit bigger, but maybe, just maybe, I'll get some colored string and do a second one, like this pinterest pic:

Source: etsy.com via Karen on Pinterest

Etsy: StuffbyJenB

So, what do you think? Is it a Pinterest success?? Have you ever done a Pinterest DIY?