From her website: "I started making chandeliers after finding about 40 facetted glass drops in a pile of rubbish. Initially I thought I couldn't make a chandelier with them because that would be too obvious, however, I later succumbed and have been making them ever since."
http://www.madeleineboulesteix.co.uk/index.html
http://www.madeleineboulesteix.co.uk/index.html