Father's Day Lamp

A couple weeks before Father's Day, 

I took my dad's mission slides from collecting dust in the basement.

Andy is really big into digitizing stuff because of the things he does with work.

So I told my dad that we were going to digitize them all for him. (Which as true).

I emptied all the boxes, and the carousels full of mission slides.

I then got started on digitizing all the slides.

After a few days, of digitizing, I finally finished with that part.

Next, I sorted all the slides by the dates that were on them.

Using a light box, I went through each year of his mission and chose the slides that I thought were,

most pretty of Alaska, fun of him on his mission, or something that stood out to me.

I lined them all up in the order that I wanted them to be on the lamp.

I loved how some of them had my dad's handwriting on them.

So instead of painting the white part of the slide, I left them all as is.

I used 2 sets of pliers, but found that ones without the big grooves in them are best so they don't tear up the metal rings.

I bought enough metal "Jump Rings" (located in the jewelry section).

Also, a 1/16" hole punch.

I measured where I wanted the holes to be on one slide, then punched the holes.

After doing one slide, I just used it as a template for all the others.

With both of the pliers, I opened the jump rings, and attached them to the slides in a row.

Then connected the rows together.

I had 4 rows of 12 slides.

The final product!

I had Andy film me giving it to my dad.

I plugged it into his room by his bed, and then asked him to come into the room with me.

I wished him a Happy Father's Day by giving him the box of his slides and said, 

"They are all digitized and everything, BUT there may be a few missing...."

Then walked into his bedroom to show him the lamp.

We both began to bawl and hug.

Basically, he LOVED it!

Exactly the reaction I was hoping for.

I'm so happy that he now can look at them every day instead of them being in a box collecting dust.

I love this dad of mine so much.

He's one of my best friends.

I truly am the luckiest girl around!

Love you dad!

Love, B