All the garden lanterns are getting a little rust paint

I have spent the last day cleaning and fixing all my out door lanterns (all 15 of them) by cleaning the glass and taping them and spray painting the metal with a little black rust paint. I do this every couple of years because I am so lazy that I leave them out all year around. I do use them in the winter when we have guests over and it's not too windy and cold. It looks romantic, I think. Anyhow they are looking all pretty new again.

Here are the beautiful morrocan lanterns I got from Crappy Tire for Mothers day 3 years ago. I had to paint them black first with rust paint because they were sitting in a container which got rain in and they were a sad story. I almost threw them away but then remembered how cute the look hanging from my porch with candles in them. So after 2 coats of black rust paint, then I coated them with liquid gold leaf. They look new again.

Pictures of the other lanterns to follow

Here the are hanging to dry. I will take the masking tape off the little pieces of glass tomorrow and do some touch ups

                                          close up indicates some touch up will be needed

I have had these lanterns for at least 25 years. They were the first lanterns I bought. They have been repainted so many times that the paint just chips off now.


Now all I have to do is go to Ikea for my big splurge on tea lights. We don't even bother going through the whole store because it is just too distracting. I know exactly which isle the candles are in and I usually run out of the store yelling, Start the car.....ha ha