Wednesday

Freebie light shades found!  BUT.  You'll notice with the first three shades, there is nothing to hang them from the ceiling light fixture.  I often find them like this, and only in rare instances I find them WITH their own metal socket (is that what they are called?).  

When I do find them, I hang on to them like gold!  I've been to various lighting stores but all I'm usually told is 'no sorry we don't sell them'.  

I browse eBay occasionally and I do find a small amount of them... and they are either vintage or if they are new, they cost a heap and /or in another country.  And of course there is no guarantee that they will actually fit the light shade - even if it's a few millimeters too big, this could be disastrous for the poor shade! 

I had found this working lamp sitting outside a neighbours front yard amongst some other rubbish a few years back, but I'm not sure why I never posted about it.  Why somebody would throw out something like this, I'll never understand.

The glass panels you see were very different - they had a lovely red flower on each of the panels.  Then one day the lamp came crashing down from where I had placed it and my heart sort of collapsed as well.

Just recently I found these glass panels on the metal frame that somebody was tossing out and although it's supposed to be a ceiling shade, it fits just right on the lamp.  Aaahhh, everything is dandy again.  :)

Wednesday

I have so many many light shades, I could almost open a small shop!  Thankfully eBay helps me in that way.  ;)


A really lovely lady was advertising these in a local online paper for free - so I snapped them up:


Keeping this one...

and this one...

there are 3 of these, also keeping!

 And these were found on somebody's front verge:

These, I think I will sell.  :)

Monday

See this Ikea Knappa ceiling light?  

 

They haven't sold these for years at our Ikea... so I guess they are sought after.

I found 2 that were getting 'disposed' of on the side of the road last year, if my memory serves me well.

They didn't look like they were in good shape, but I took them home and cleaned them up and they both looked a treat!  I sold the one in the photo last week for a nice price and I'll sell the second one soon.  :)

Onto something completely different.  

I really amaze myself sometimes.  Even after amazing myself, then accepting that I'm amazing, I still amaze myself.  lol.  I should really let my vanity go and just realize that I'm just plain AMAZING.

Some of you know that I collect thimbles.  

So a few months back I started looking on Ebay for thimble cabinets, holders, units etc.  Have you seen the prices on those things??  Well I have and it's enough to make your eyes pop out of their sockets.  So then I thought gee wiz, I could try making one myself.  I didn't need anything fancy, just something cute to sit them on.

And here it is!!!!

Ok I know it's not perfect, but I'm more than happy with my handy work.  My mother bought up a good point when she saw it though.... she said I should have popped a little shelf right down the bottom.  She could be right, and I might just do that in the near future.  The thimbles you see are only about half of what I have, so I may make something else but a little bit different.  :)

Thursday

Today we'll start with a little free art deco....

3 glass light shades and let me tell you, they are heavy. They had some kind of ink on them but I cleaned them right up with a teeny bit of bleach;

Then we'll finish with some free casual clothing;

That says 'moderation is for sissies'. 

This has become my favourite bed time top;

I wanna be a rock star!

I found about 5 pairs of jeans but I won't bore you with showing all of them;

What you must understand is that at my ripe age, I don't normally dress like this, yet here I am looking like I'm some kind of rocker (wannabe).  I do pull it off ok though and I hide my muffin top very well, don't I?

It's a lighting frenzy!

Free lighting apparatus.  How many lights can one have?  I've gone a little overboard with my collection yet there is something so captivating about them,  I really do need to pick them up.  

Ok, I don't use all the ones I find and a lot of them are for spare parts, which means I strip them down and toss away what I don't need.  Thankfully less apparatus means more space in my cupboards!

On with the lighting show...

These are lovelier than they look in the photo.  Most of the parts are there, but that pesky brown paint on the edge a little on the hideous side - and I can tell it was hand painted (absolutely no artistic flare was found!).  I will attempt to erase that ugliness with paint stripper and hope that it doesn't eat away at the glass.

I picked this up for the lovely white and gold ceramic part.

Not the prettiest shade, and I might just spray paint it and sand down the base... then Bob's my uncle.

This didn't have one scratch on it.

My favourite... and it reminds me of the roaring 1920 with its bold Art Deco style.  She's a big and heavy lady indeed.

If you look closely, you will see dust clinging to it... but believe me this photo was taken AFTER I cleaned it.  Black is the worst colour for cleaning, especially black ceramic!

And lastly, the ugliest of them all....

Oh so shady

 I posted a few weeks back about how I found these 3 lovely light shades for $2 each -->  Light Shades


I also promised I'd show what I already had - the exact same shades on a couple of bedside lamps that I found for $10 each at another op shop last year.

Now all I have to do is convince my dear husband to replace our existing bedroom ceiling light shade to another, so I can pop those on.  A matching set is oh so much nicer.

Light Shades

I found these glass light shades for $2 each.  Bargain, I say.  I needed exactly that many for a shadeless ceiling light, which was free from a junk pile, thanks very much.   And who'd have thought - they actually fit!

Now, I could have sworn I blogged about this next bit of news months ago...  I had found a couple of lovely bedside lamp shades with the exact same shades for $10 each at the op shop last year but when I went to find the post, I could not.  Then I remembered I had posted about it at my other blog (ziaperamore.blogspot.com) but I had changed the layout and the old news is gone.  Oh well.  Looks like I'll have to take some new photos of those soon.  :)

Oh dear, more free lighting!

At the rate I'm going, I could open up a lighting store!

This one isn't pink... it's white milk glass.  There is a pink light globe making it look all pretty and feminine.  It was in the kitchen, until the one below came along.   Now it shall be placed in the laundry room.

This one is a heavy boy and looks magnificent in the kitchen.  :)