I had an excuse to visit etsy today. Yesterday I completed the refinishing of an awesome vintage danish ceramic-wood lamp. I purchased the lamp for my camio's nursery when I was still pregnant. It was ugly in its original colors, but had nice bones. It sat around in my kitchen for the past 5+ months waiting to be painted. I finally got around to painting it an enamel white. It turned out gorgeous! Better than I had even expected. Then I smashed the absolute crap out of it. It busted into a million unrepairable pieces. Not on purpose of course. I had just brought it in from outside and set it on the counter. I walked about 10 steps away, heard the horrible noise of it crashing against our insanely hard terracotta tile floors and then screamed. I was and am still so incredibly upset/frustrated/pissed. It was perfect, perfect I say. It had awesome shape, awesome texture and only cost me $13!!!!!!!! I didn't even get to snatch a picture of it in its finished state.
So I scoured etsy today looking for a replacement, but to no avail. There are tons of great danish/mid-century lamps out there, but I'm still sore about my lamp and that's the only one I want. I just need some time to get over it before I can even think about finding a different lamp.
Here are some cool finds that I may end up warming up to in about 5 months.
01. This white lamp is the same color and has the same awesome wood neck, it just has a different shape than mine did
02. This slender lamp is closer to being the right shape
03. I am loving everything about the base of this lamp
04. The shade/base color combination on this lamp makes me happy
05. I'm not sure that I'd put this industrial lamp in the same category, but I like it nonetheless
06. Faster than a speeding bullet lamp
07. Maybe I'll ditch the whole lamp thing and just hang a shade
love my camio
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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I vote for one of the first two. :)
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