Productive Unemployment Project #3: I made a LAMP!

OK, to be fair, I think the thing I made the lamp from actually used to be a lamp or at least some kind of lighting fixture, so this was pretty simple.

I bought this wrought iron thing at a flea market last summer for $1 with no real idea what I was going to do with it. For a very long while it sat on top of the piano getting dusty, an objet d'art if you will...

There's this store not far from my house with a sign in the window "We make lamps out of anything" Awesome!  Wylie's Lamps... So, I stopped in and purchased all the hardware I would need to make a functioning lamp for $8 + tax.  Add in the can of spray paint and a shade and the whole lamp cost about $25.  Not bad.

I totally love it.  Actually, I'm not sold on the shade yet.  I'm going to try a couple more styles. Maybe something a little bigger and more modern...  What do you think?

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