School House
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 10:02AM My love for all things school-related has not abated, and I've got two recent(ish) projects to prove it. The first I actually dreamed up a couple of years ago when I found an old school desk at a garage sale and just couldn't leave without it. My pictures of the original desk were lost when my last phone crashed, but it's a cousin to this desk:
Like this one, my desk also has an inkwell, and the big hole got me brainstorming...A fortuitous trip to the library on a day they were giving away charming old hardcover books brought the whole vision together.
Ain't she cute? Now (out of pride), I do feel compelled to mention that since I dreamed this up I've seen lamps made from stacks of books popping up in the handmade marketplace; but I thought of this all on my own, before I'd ever seen one. Great minds think alike?
I actually completed the books/lamp mechanism a year ago and was living with a normal lampshade on top. But I always felt like something was missing until about a month ago, when my mom spotted Marconi filament bulbs for a great price and the final piece of the puzzle popped into place.
These old school (figurative) bulbs (which I am not nearly talented enough to photograph, so I stole this pic) were the perfect complement to my old school (literal) desk.
A skeleton lampshade (i.e. a thrift store shade stripped of its cover) was the cherry on top. My desk lamp finally feels complete.
Which frees me up to continue pursuing my globe obsession. When I saw this in Restoration Hardware...
...it made me think of this, which I made last year...
...and got me thinking I could make my own version of an earth ottoman.
So obviously I did.
Once again, ain't she cute?
And oh so comfy.
Reader Comments (1)
school is aplace that i will never forget,because it bring me so a lot of things