I love lamp

I love being crafty (as you may know) and I especially love being crafty with my good friend --the fabulous- Molly Kennedy from Good Golly Photography. We each had a unique tin (mine a vintage tea tin and her's a vintage lard tin), so we decided to make lamps. And, with the help of her hubbs, Corey (who is an electrician) we were able to have a long overdue crafternoon. 

Tea / Lard Tins, before

I bought a lamp kit from Lowe's (for, like, $12) 

and Cory was able to show us step-by-step how to to assemble everything (yeah, now I have that song in my head, too). 

Corey was an excellent instructor. I took notes and I feel confident that I could assemble a lamp on my own with adult supervision (silver = neutral, brass = hot, right? right?!?) but I'm going direct you over to the wikiHow page for the actual step-by-step. 

When it was all done (like, 20 minutes later - it really is a simple process!) Molly and I were both THRILLED with our lamps! Seriously, it's like my new thing - I want to turn everything into a lamp now. 

Our gorgeous lamps! Mine is on the left and Molly's is on the right. 

Thanks so much for all of your help, Corey! Can't wait for our next crafting adventure (craftventure? nah... that was terrible...) 

Latest Obsession - The Mindy Project

Okay, okay - I know I'm like 5 steps behind on this... but I am obsessed with Mindy Kahling. 

I mean, how could you not be? Anyone who would publish the above photo in a nationally best selling book should be the leader of the world. 

Her book is absolutely hilarious (seriously, I read it in two days - and I'm not trying to brag about how fast I can read - I just couldn't put it down!) 

And her sense of style so unstoppable there is even an entire website dedicated to it (which I now have bookmarked)

Her NYC apartment on her show is the stuff my dreams are made of.

White space with bright pops of color and funky patters dispersed throughout juxtaposed with antique furniture? I die. 

I binge watched the entire first season and I'm moving on the the second. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do when I'm finished. I guess I'll have to move out to LA and ask her to be my best friend... I've never stalked anyone - but you gotta start somewhere, amIright?