Tripod

I found this tripod in a cool little antiques market in town yesterday and thought it was interesting. I'm thinking of turning it into yet another light.

 I seem to be developing a fixation on building floor lamps at the minute, although now that I think of it, with it's legs folded down this could be an awesome table top lamp too.

Lamp Bits

The metal arm for my Actimel bottle lamp arrived at work, it wasn't the easiest thing to get home as it was wrapped in plastic and resembled a wind surfing sail and it was very windy in Bath today. I now have all the wiring, metal work and half the shade, I've got a really nice block of driftwood for the base which should get here next weekend.

The other exciting thing about recieving the lamp arm isrealising how big it is. I was generous with the measurements to make sure it had impact but it is huge. Vicki is holding it in my lounge which luckily has high ceilings, she's not exactly tall but it dwarfs her.

Lamp Shade

Actimel bottle lamp shade in progress.

Muesli

I made homemade muesli last night based on a recipe from the Leon cook book, I was a little worried when it said to put 100ml of sunflower oil in it and even more worried when i had to substitute vegetable oil due to a poorly stocked cupboard but it turned out to be seriously tasty.

Cup Lamp

Some images of the cup lamp I made. The shade is made from plastic cups stapled together and the base is made from 3 broom handles and some string. shades like this have been around for a while but putting it on a tall base makes it work really well. if you want to make your own a good set of instrcutions can be found at http://www.instructables.com/id/Dixie-Cup-Spherical-Dodecahedron/ .

First Post

I feel under a lot of pressure to write something clever here, this will have to do.