I found a dustbin full of empty clean jars in my garden.  We don't have a blue box that the council provide to take them away - must request one soon - and it's too much hassle to drag them over the recycling bank as we don't have a car.  So, I decided to see what we could do with some of the before we get our blue box.

On sorting out the jars I found a number of jars that were the same shape and size with the same lids.  There were very nice small jars with little gold lids and I thought "tea light holders".  But I'm a lazy person, and with 20 of these jars, I know what I wouldn't be willing to go around lighting 20 tea lights.  So the next best thing sprung to mind, "solar lamps".  I discovered mini solar panel or solar cells are quite hard to come by and quite expensive.  So I trotted off to Homebase and found these.  A small cost, but all the other materials were free or pre-existing so I was willing.

I took the light mechanism off, replace the jar lids with it and painted the jars and lids my colours.  Luckily the lids were of the same circumference, not something I checked before hand....phew, so just popped on top of the jars.

I really like the way you can see the paint strokes, and from a distance it looks like a wet surface.

In our garden we have a corner plant space.  This built in plant box has convenient corners which are perfect for sitting on.....but alas there was nowhere to put your drink whilst sitting in the sun.  So off I trotted to B&Q, picked up some banister wood and some decking.  Cut the banister wood in half and took off the annoying sloped ends, sanded them down and nailed them onto my decking.....bazinga - table!