Bluebell Fairy
Creative Salvage Lampshade
The story of this lampshade begins at my wedding, when we received two lamps as a wedding present. They had mustard silk lampshades with a cardboard lining, mounted on a wire structure. It was the wire that became the catalyst for this salvage project, because the old model from 1982 was of such design involving a wire circle to be mounted directly on the lightbulb and hang in balance by the force of gravity - definitely winging it on the technological aspect. Unfortunately that meant no chance of finding the same design nowadays. (We had loads of fun accidentally knocking those things over for the better part of the '80s, however.) These lamps had a very long and happy life, as even though I was beginning to learn what consumer society was like, I still couldn't conceive of throwing anything away just because of its age (and much less because it had "gone out of style"). Until one day, while moving into the new apartment, the cardboard-lined lampshades got crinkled b...
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