Make and Display Rustic, Industrial Lamps

Hello Friends:

Happy Friday, I love Steam punk lamps from Anthropology, Pottery Barn, but not their prices.
I decided to make my own, I love the old Telegraph Insulators Rustic, steampunk, table lamps. People sometimes throw them away, or not even know what they are. I find them interesting and so vintage, industrial.  I love them next to lace, lavender bunches, books, and you have a vignette, but now, you can have an industrial lamp made by me. Its gorgeous, I love it, sorry but I can't believe I'm making these lamps out of discard pieces, I have some more designs on the works, a surprise.

 So here is my latest design. I did the base, and drill the hole for it, then sanded it and stained it.  I had a good friend an electrician do the wiring since I'm not that good at it.  I had the Insulator, this is my favorite color, its beautiful at night, so romantic.

I placed the light on top of a French turquoise poem antique book, one of my favorite little books.
I don't know if you can see it but it looks so pretty on the typewriter antique table.

I took this picture so you can see the color, its hard, sorry to take pictures of lights.

I wish you could see the light in person, its a soft teal, I just lay some lavender of course, behind it, so vintage with the lace, old books, ready to listen to music or you can use them as night lights also.

This picture has  another insulator in the back.

The turquoise light is beautiful, I waited until it got dark to take the pictures, because it looks

so stunning at night.  It has a 5ft. cord with an on/off switch and a candelabra bulb,

What do you think??

On to the new finds, I found this gorgeous French desk, totally blue and distress.

It has lots of little drawers, and there was a surprise inside one of the drawers,
I found several tiny old crystal knobs.  Each drawer has a keyhole but I didn't find
any keys.

I love the new find, it has plenty of distressing, but I got my hands on it already,
I'll show you the pictures tomorrow.





Great find,

Wish you great junking Saturday,

love

Martha

New Dreams and painting

Hello friends:

Sorry I'm late but in paint up to my ears, and nothing is finished.  Does this happen to you?
In the DYI world of ours, distractions are no good.
They get you behind and you end up with five projects at once and nothing is done.
This is my world for the last two weeks, everyday, I'm determine, positive, and enthusiastic and, want to finish something, but I'm lacking tape, paint, clay,name it supplies, the phone, the rain, the humidity.  Anyway, like Ellen says, I'm almost done with the chalkboard pots, one more coat, and they are out of this house.  I got a great tip in a blog, and now I cann't remember where, but its for getting the awful "antique" smell from suitcases.  I have a beautiful old old suitcase that smells so bad, everyday I take it outside in the sun, I tried febreeze, nothing, but today I found a new trick.
The blogger says this works magic:  get a bottle of unscented litter, pour the entire bottle inside the suitcase, close it, and don't open it for one week. At the end dump the litter in the garbage and your suitcase will never smell again.  WOW, I'm on to buy the litter because I don't have cats. 
Now, I know how to get rid of those smells that fills our basements with the great finds. Great tip now I have to find the author of the blog, LOL

Here is some inspiration and I'm going back to get
something finish today.  I found a great french desk to die for come back tomorow to see the picture. It is painted in blue and fully distressed!!!!! I couldn't believe it.  I'll show it to you tomorow on "great finds"



This is from Ikea, so beautiful love the color.

have a wonderful day

Martha

Special corners in our homes

Dear Friends:

 Hope everyone is doing fine.  Today, I will show you

how to make your home cozy and different using your

collections, and everyday items.

Love cages, and we all have one or two. You can use them for so many vignettes, this is one idea.

Another inspiration is to use chalkboard paint in different places.  How about this?  sweet?

This is a cute bedside vignette, so homey and cozy.

We all have old books, a lamp, a bouquet of fresh flowers, and you make your house a home.

Make a display with an old spoon, a dried flower and a candle.

So sweet and special.

This is the "ultimate vignette" from Austin Texas, via the Web

Enjoy,

Martha

I'm obsessed

Hope you had a great Memorial Day Holiday.I am obsessed with coffee sacks. I love them and then I found these...




This beautiful cushions are made with coffee sacks, Viva Terra is an online store with some unique furniture.  Go here:http://www.vivaterra.com/catalog/product/view/id/10787/s/convertible-cage-lamp/category/303/

I love the coffee sacks, about a year ago a famous store for us DYI in the East Coast called Bldg. 19

really is a huge store that has all kinds of goodies for very little money.  Well, they had thousands of these sacks for 1.00 ea.  I was in heaven, some nicer than others, but I have never seen so many.
The owners of Bldg.19  get leftover from big stores and you can really score there sometimes.
Rugs and mattresses are very cheap, I'm talking oriental rugs and brand names mattresses.



Love this chair done with a coffee sack by http://adiamondinthestuff.blogspot.com/2012/05/burlap-coffee-sack-chair.html





This adorable rocker from here:http://www.designsponge.com/2010/08/before-after-ashleys-chair-marys-ikea-hacks.html
cute and inexpensive.

Now, this is a bit more fancy and so cute.  This chair is by
http://blog.moxii.com/tips/diy-coffee-bag-chair-transformation/

This site sells the coffee sacks, they list a phone number, I get mine FREE, I go sometimes to this tiny
coffee shop where the guy roasts his own beans and he buys them in Central America.  He thinks he sells gold, the cups are one size only and not cheap.  But, he once in a while gives me a sack or two, nice  guy, but I like Starbucks coffee, but believe me, they don't give the sacks to the public.  Now I just have to start upholtering,  oh what's that, it sounds HARD, I have never done anything like that.

Have you?   But this looks simple you just need a staple and the sacks, and voila you did it.

Make and display post.

You are talking with someone who is even afraid to use the DRILL, I'm slowly loosing the fear, but
not yet,, I'm making something that needs the help of a drill, so I'm learning.  I rather work with pencils and chalk, and kids.

One more picture I love:

 This is talent so cute.  This site is http://hollypprojects.blogspot.com/2012/02/tweed-and-coffee-sack-chair.html


Write to me I want to know if you ever done something like this.

Have a wonderful day or evening, I'm going to make friends with my drill and
power saw,  its going to take a long time, but we need to make friends once and
for all, I don't want to depend on Mr. I want to do it.

Peace

Happy crafting, I'm almost done with the Moss covered letter, I'm putting the tutorial together for you, its a fun project, but I'm warning you, wear gloves, and go slow, its not a fast project, it takes time, but
\its beautiful, very earthy, and organic.

to be continued...

Great weekend finds???

Dear friends:

These new finds ended up in my car this weekend.

This sweet turquoise bowl, the iron decoration, free also.  and the best deal the CORONA TYPEWRITER, so sweet and in a remarkable condition.

Look at this beauty, and it was free, $0.00 a great find, I don't thing this beauty was ever used. It has its original ribbon, everything works well, and it has a beautiful case.

It was a great find.