Just a quick one — I haven’t posted here in forever, and I have lots of things which I really should document. This is one that I finished a few weeks ago but was super quick. Basically, it’s just an artsy-fartsy lamp. I built it using this light bulb, from Amazon, some styrofoam to create the mid-lamp platform. Fake grass from Michael’s Crafts for the grass.
The original bulb for the bottom that inspired the design was a 25W incandescent ‘stained glass‘ bulb, but the heat from that bulb trapped inside the glass cloche would quickly begin to bake the oils out of the fake grass. This was a pretty severe fire hazard, so I took an LED bulb and hand painted it using sharpie paint pens. A little gauche, but it adds a certain wabi-sabi value to the art that matches the hand crumpled copper tape which rings the ‘grass’ platform. All in all, I’m pretty pleased with how it came out.