Hobbies are important, they create an outlet for our talent and provide countless hours of enjoyment doing something that expresses our creativity.  Over the years I’ve continued to develop my love of cooking, gardening, painting, needlework and more recently Lamp refurbishing. 

The lamp refurbishing hobby began when my husband said he wanted to decorate our new space with some old vintage lamps.  So we went looking at yard sales and junk stores for vintage lamps which required me to make the outside magnificent,  while Michael replaced the inside with all new parts. 

It became so much fun for both of us seeing something used up and discarded made over into something pleasing and attractive, we just kept picking up old lamps and shades to make them into something sensational.   

So now, of course we have to get rid of some of these great new creations so we can make more.  (Isn’t that the way life goes) Since neither of us wants to drown in beautiful lamps we decided to start selling our works of art.  Its amazing how hard it is to part with something  you have created. 

I also realized I should do a blog on how I redo the outside of the lamps & shades.  It really is a lot of fun making something ready for the dump into something beautiful.  Hopefully I’ll find the time to make a video of the process at some point. Today I just wanted to immortalize a few of our creations here on my blog.  Enjoy the before and after pictures.

There are just a small sample of the lamps we have worked with. It has been fun and time we have spent together on a project.