Item #2008-0003

This a lamp that I literally made from a piece of firewood from our first camping trip of the summer this year at Tobyhanna State Park here in PA. There was some really cool wood in there, and some awesome bark (only I think bark is awesome ;) I was looking at this log and I said "This would make an awesome lamp!" Within a week it was a lamp!

Most of the materials were free - I got a lamp kit for a buck at a yard sale that weekend, and the base was made out of four heavy wood feet that came off of a sofa that I got rid of - it was their heaviness that inspired the name "Solid Foundations" - it is unusual for me to name my art because I don't want to come up with silly names for everything I make - thus item numbers instead.

The awesome thing about this lamp is that whenever people come over they say "You made that???" I will have and love this lamp forever.

Item #2007-0004

I got this cute little lamp base from Freecycle... I thought it was neat but didn't know what I was going to do with it. When I picked it up the original glass shade fell off and broke (because I am a klutz) and the wiring was old, so I knew I was going to have to rebuild it and come up with a shade for it. I started by adding some gold paint to the stove and then adding a stem for the lamp kit.
Once I got that in place I started gluing rocks on it like crazy! If you can't tell from my other work, I love rocks and crystals and I love to add them into my artwork. All that was left after that was to make a lampshade - so I bought an ugly little shade that was falling apart from Goodwill and I used the metal frame of it to make this cloth lampshade out of fabric I had. I was thrilled with how it turned out.

This is what it was made from...