My extra time has lately gone to light:
Happy
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| First, it occurred to me that the desk in the study needed a lamp. (And, yes, I know the desk pad says 2010. We tend to use those things for long periods of time.) I started lamp-hunting. I drove near, I drove far, I looked at expensive lamps, I looked at cheap lamps, and finally I came full circle and bought this one at the first place I’d checked — our local thrift store. $2 — not bad. Shade from Walmart, so total cost = about $10. Its base is marble and brass, and seeing its warm glow instead of fluorescent glare whenever light is needed in the study makes me happy. |
Funny
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| As is my wont, one search led to another find. On my first visit to the thrift store, I spied this brass floor lamp, shade included, the kind with the bend-y arm. Even better, its bend-y arm retains its strength and doesn’t let the lamp flop about. I’ve wished for awhile to have a floor lamp shorter than the one we have had for many years in this spot, and this one is perfect for the purpose. $10? Deal. |
Real
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| This is the old floor lamp. It needs and has needed a larger shade, so while I was lamp shopping I was also shade shopping for it. In the removing of the current shade so we could haul the shadeless lamp around with us to find it a better shade, an accident happened that ended with this broken sleeve/cover/thing-y. |
Pretty
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| Still, by turning the lamp around a bit, it doesn’t show, and now we have more warm light in a corner previously darkened. Our house is not “decorated.” Real people live here. Things get broken. We make do with the less-than-ideal. (That gold sofa, for example…) Even so, we are happy. The funny things in our lives usually add to the happy. The real often does, too. And all that makes me even more happy. |
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