Lamp Gets a Makeover or...

Lamp ReVamp

First, I want to thank everyone for their very kind comments on my post of yesterday.

You know a few times when I've posted something very, very personal, 

I've hit the "publish post" button with a sick feeling in my stomach like this may be 

going too far. I often compose my post late at night and schedule it to appear in

the morning. I went to bed thinking...well...that was not about home decor....that was

all about my feelings...and thoughts. They will think I'm a freak, perhaps I should delete. 

But then I just go ahead and hit that button.

And then the few times I've done that...I've woken and come in and checked my blog 

to find that my readers have embraced it and tell me that they love that I shared. 

It continues to amaze me that the more I show my true self here...the more I'm accepted.

I'm not always the most cheerful person. I think I am naturally a happy person 

but sometimes life is just very hard and it's hard to stay cheerful.

One of my local friends recently ask me to come to a party (which I declined, saying I just wasn't
much in the partying mood these days because I'm depressed and worried
about how my career is going or rather, not going) and she said, 

"But I read your blog and you are so happy on your blog!"

I thought about it a moment and said as I realized...

"Well, I AM happy when on my blog.
Everything is GREAT when I do my blog. I am at my happiest, creating and updating my blog.
All my insecurities go away while I do that." 

Yes, all my worries about my future disappear. 

So yes, I am happy on the blog. I am being totally honest when posting.

So thank you all for giving me that every day in a time when I need it.

back to the 

Lamp ReVamp

See the lamp there by the chair? (the chair that is patiently awaiting it's makeover)

I've had this antique bridge lamp for a long time. 

I bought it at the Scott Antique Market in Atlanta back when I lived there.

The Scott Antique Market was a must for me each month. 

If you live near enough to drive there - say within four hours away....go!

It is the best place to find all kinds of fantastic vintage items. 

Just ask Kim at Savvy Southern Style, she hits it regularly.

Oh...I wish I wasn't a 14 hour drive from it or I'd go each month.

Ok, back to that lamp. I loved it when I bought it, look at the details.

Great, right?

But the shade was not thrilling me these days. 

At Christmas I bought this sparkly globe light thingy at a local florist shop. 

It actually was being used as a Christmas ornament on a very large tree. The tree had been covered 

with them but they only had one left and they were removing it when I was in the store.

It came with it's own cord and socket. It was not lit when I purchased.

It was only $15 and I couldn't resist even though I had no idea what I'd do with it.

I got it home, plugged it in and it didn't work! 

Drat...that meant I needed to go buy another socket and cord. 

Since I didn't need another light, it has sat for months waiting for me to do something with it.

Then the other day, I thought...

"I wonder how it would look instead of the shade that is on my bridge lamp?"

I unscrewed the assembly that connected the old lampshade. 

It was a brass ring with screws to hold the glass shade in place. 

And I liked the way I thought this would look. 

The cord on this lamp was plenty long so I was able to pull enough cord up through the base 

to let the light hang further down into the new globe.

I shortened the globe's chains a little. These chains make it so that the weight of the globe is totally 

supported by the chains and not the electrical cord at all. 

You wouldn't want the electrical cord carrying the weight. That would not be good.

I'm not sure where I want it in my house but I know I like it much better.

It's much funkier. A good mix of Modern and Vintage which I love.

And speaking of Modern and Vintage....

I've been thinking of doing this for quite a long time like 6 months at least. 

I'm going to start a link party here next Monday...or actually it will go up Sunday night called....

wait for it....

What do you think? I know there are soooo many linky parties out there that I struggle to keep up with them myself. 

But my favorite rooms and projects are the ones where modern things are mixed with 

old things. That can be taking an old lamp and painting it with new spray paint.

It can be an antique sofa plopped down in the middle of a modern room. 

You can link up by adding a project where you took an old thing and put a new spin on it or you bought 

a very modern thing to add to your traditional room or you added a traditional element to your modern room. 

Or you can link up any photo that inspires you to do this in your own home. 

Just be sure to give credit for where the photo originally came from.

Tell me what you think.

Do you want another linky party?

I know I get great inspiration from link parties and really enjoy all of them but my most favorite rooms 

are rooms that mix vintage and modern and I just don't see enough of it.

You see it certainly at LONNY and in the pages of Undecorate and in the new Tradhome.

And my first intention of this blog was to show that. 

I'm afraid I often stray from that intention because my income was seriously reduced shortly after 

beginning this blog so adding modern stuff to my vintage has not happened as much as I'd thought it would.

But new can be a revamp of something like this lamp I showed today.

This redo was not expensive...it cost me $15. 

Or another mod mix could be my recent tissue paper wall corsage.

Anyway....let me know if you like the idea of this party.

My ModMix Vintage Lamp

Mandi over at

has declared this week Lamp Week

I had already planned to show this lamp today but what a coincidence! 

Go over and see everyone's great lamps.

She is also having a great Silhouette discount. 

I still don't have one of these machines...but oh...how I wish I did.

The things I could do with it.

oh and 

http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com

is giving away a Silhouette! 

I just entered to win. I really need one of these machines.

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