A little peek of some recent goings-on around here via my Instagram thing.
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Friday, July 6th, 2012
Now with the immediacy and ease of sites like Instagram and Twitter, I’m tending to neglect this actually blog. Seriously, when did blogging start to feel so archaic? Or is this just creeping laziness? Is this July? What’s happening?
Anyway, here’s a compilation of small changes and additions around the house from the past months (or so).
1. Return of the massive white ceramic lamp (I prefer my lamps huge)
2 & 3. Updated OFT Potence Lamp (now with more BRASS tip)
4. Vintage Navajo Two Gray Hills weaving from eBay (now without awful smoke smells)
5. Few more thrifty ceramics (plus a Home Depot CACTUS)
6. Brutalist hallway lamp fixture from eBay (replacing this one)
7. Hey, it’s a consignment store pillow (maximum PINK achieved)
8. Too Blessed 2 be Stressed poster in need of hanging (via reference library)
SIZE MATTERS
Thursday, June 28th, 2012
BOOM.
This is the biggest cork lamp your face has ever seen.
So big. So beefy. So corky.
So yes, a supersized steroid popping cork tower of a lamp exists and now lives with me. Getting this lamp has taken more than a years worth of persistent needling and negotiating with a local antique type consignment shop. I waited and stalked and waited some more for the lamps price to be slashed down 50% and that still wasn’t the price I was willing to pay. So for the next six months I’d check in and whittle the price down further and further until the poor sellers spirit snapped and this baby came home with me.
I will hunt vintage for years. That’s dedication. Or madness. Or sad.
Speaking of size matters, I’ve slowly been updating the fireplace with a fancy new coat of white paint and now a comically undersized mantel.
Six inch short-cut to failure.
Dammit.
This. Is. Dumb.
I screwed up. After writing down tons of numbers for little projects in my handy notebook, I somehow misread the width needed while at Home Depot and ended up bringing home a chunk of wood six inches shy of what was required.
Dumb.
Now I don’t have the energy to go back and find, cut and re-buy wood, so I’ll be taking a few days to recuperate. Screw you mantel.
Having this screw up time to live with the white might actually be for the best since I’m not sure I even like the white?
Then I do. Then I don’t. Then I’m like ugh, more paint? No. Yes. No.
I’m about 50/50.
Whatever. BIG LAMP. I like that crazy thing.
