Bring some positive energy into your home with wind chimes

Different wind chimes have different designs, lengths, and shapes so the sound they produce will also be different. While the market offers a variety of wind chimes in the most attractive colours and patterns, but there’s nothing like making one on your own. Making your own wind chime is not difficult at all. The best thing about DIY wind chimes is that you can practically use anything you want. Things such as shells, bamboo, old wood or keys are all acceptable. Having said that, you should note that different materials will produce different sounds so be sure to experiment around and find the sounds that you like most. So, to start with, here are a few easy steps to make your own ombre clay pot wind chime.

The definition of ombre is the French word for colour that is shaded or graduated in tone. So in our case, the pots will be dark blue at the top, a slightly lighter shade of blue in the middle and light blue at the bottom. But you don’t have to buy five different shades of blue because you can make them yourself. And all you need to make a bunch of different blues is one blue and some white. Create each shade of blue separately. The first pot in your wind chime will be the fully saturated colour you chose, no white added.  For the second pot, squirt out some blue and add a few drops of white and mix together until you have a less saturated blue than the previous. And so on.  Start with a fresh spot of blue each time because so you can dip back in to the paint if you need to do touch ups.  The other option is to use one large amount of blue paint and just keep adding white to it as you go. If you do that, you can’t really go back from the last and lightest pot and touch up the third pot that is a bit darker. The acrylic paint does give nice coverage in one coat.  

Once your pots are painted, let them dry overnight.

When the pots are dry, you are ready to start stringing them up.  Use twine to string your pots together.  Basically, stick the twine into the hole of the darkest pot first and tie a knot at the top that would serve as the hanger. Then, make a chunky knot that would secure the pot to it’s spot on the twine. The knot needs to be big enough to not fit through the hole in the pot.  Or your pot will slip down the twine. Tie on a washer just below the knot. Place the washer close enough to the knot so that you can’t see it when it is hanging, but not so close that it doesn’t have room to bang around when the wind blows. This part takes some trial and error, but the twine is pretty forgiving and you can sort of force it up and down a little even after you’ve made the knots. Or you can always untie the knots. It takes a little patience to get things evenly spaced.

Repeat the knotting and attaching the washers for each pot and then tie your large bead or crystal to the end.  This last piece, either bead or crystal, should be a little heavy so that the wind will catch it and give the chimes a shake. And there you go, cheap and pretty wind chimes ready even before you know it.