Make a little birdhouse in your soul

September 5, 2009 1:53 PM

I'm looking for a nightlight that could fit the description of the nightlight in the song Birdhouse in your Soul by They Might Be Giants. Ideas?

Blue canary, "in the outlet by the light switch" (ie: that plugs directly into the wall). All I can find are stained glass ones, but I want something that is styled for a child's room.

posted by anastasiav to Shopping (13 answers total)

There are plugin nightlights with blank, flat light panels (square or round). You can print any picture onto clear film (or clear sticker stock) in an inkjet printer, and glue it on top.

Four bucks at Lowe's or Home Depot.
posted by rokusan at 2:00 PM on September 5, 2009

It looks like http://bluecanarynightlight.com/ will be taking orders next week.
posted by eschatfische at 2:02 PM on September 5, 2009 [12 favorites]

Google also found me this. Little expensive, though.
posted by shaun uh at 2:05 PM on September 5, 2009

There's a picture opposite me
Of my primitive ancestry
Which stood on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck free

...by which I mean you could always go for a lighthouse nightlight to stay with the theme of the song. As somebody lucky enough to have a real lighthouse flash in my window at night I can tell you it is quite soothing.
posted by rongorongo at 2:46 PM on September 5, 2009

You can also have it custom made over at etsy. This one I assume doesn't quite fit the bill for you. Cute idea!
posted by saucysault at 3:08 PM on September 5, 2009

That blue canary nightlight site is pretty slick!

If you're looking for something a little simpler, or want to make your own, we used to have a cool night light made, in part, from blue Plexiglas. The one we had was like an alien and had a shape behind the plexi so it made a shadow, but you could cut the blue plexi to shape and then dow whatever you wanted with it. It attached pretty easily to a regular nightlight base.
posted by Madamina at 4:51 PM on September 5, 2009

The bluecanary one is cute, but not accurate. You need the kind that plugs right into the wall and stays "in the outlet" like the Etsy one... but a canary.

(Yeah, I have thought about this one before.)
posted by rokusan at 7:41 PM on September 5, 2009

See, this is why I just got a rock to wind a string around. Much easier to find.
posted by toekneebullard at 8:24 PM on September 5, 2009 [1 favorite]

Jeez, you really can find anything on the Internet. I wonder why TMBG doesn't sell these themselves!
posted by lsemel at 9:32 PM on September 5, 2009

Makes me wonder where one can buy a big prosthetic forehead for $7.
posted by lsemel at 10:00 PM on September 5, 2009

http://www.carolynsuniqueplace.com/Night-Lights.html ?
posted by buzzv at 10:25 PM on September 5, 2009

Here's one that's a bit more expensive but very pretty.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 1:56 PM on September 6, 2009

Oh, now I see that shaun uh already posted that one. C'est la vie.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 1:57 PM on September 6, 2009