Friday, May 17, 2013

Week 20- Look Up

Focus on Life ... week 20... LOOK UP!

Since it is pouring rain today and none of our trees are in bloom I walked around the house and the gallery looking up...  Here's a selection of things I found... 
(No cobwebs were damaged during this photographic session!)
The mobile that hung in the house I grew up in from the time I was 5 until I took it down 2 years ago when I was helping to move my parents into a seniors condo complex... It is now hanging in my 'family room' and if my sister sees this picture she's going to say... 'Why did you get that?'

The Tiffany lamp that took me 6 years to build... at one point I had all the white pieces cut out  in piles on the dryer... my son who was then 3  was in the basement... I asked him what he was doing he came to the bottom of the stairs with a pail.. I didn't look in the pail and said OK have fun... he was carefully transferring all my unlabeled neatly piled pieces of white glass from the dryer to the pail... they stayed in the pail for 4 years!  Once finished, the lamp hung over my dining room table in SK for 10 years ... after we moved here I added loops to the inside and flipped it upside down.. (the ceiling where it is now is  12 feet)

One wall of  the  gallery which has 10 foot ceilings.... The two fused pieces in the middle are mine.  

Why don't you go check and see how other people interpreted Sally's challenge for week 20

14 comments:

  1. those are some really great pieces! and you made that lamp?! wow! so cool!

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  2. You've got some nice things hanging about! Love the lamp and the mobile!

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  3. Lynne your mobile is wonderful. That lampshade is awesome. Way cool that you made it.

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  4. Your lamp is gorgeous!! and I love the mobile, too. All the artwork in your house is amazing,...and I'm so glad you didn't harm the cobwebs! ;-) (I didn't hurt mine this week, either!!)

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  5. wow! that tiffany lampshade is stunning!! our ceilings have nothing so elegant - just wispy cobwebs...
    wonderful photos, as always!
    have a great week :)

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  6. You can come here and harm my cobwebs!

    The lamp is stunning.

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  7. Hahaha Lynne, My sisters and I have similar conversations! I love it! That lamp is gorgeous. You have an abundance of talent.

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  8. Wonderful art you have in your home. Thanks for sharing!

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  9. Love your story about the Tiffany style lamp and your young son. Your creations are gorgeous.

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  10. Oh man! I would have cried, for sure. An innocent error but boy, so crushing. I'm so glad you made your way back to it - what a fantastic piece.

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  11. So glad you took the time to finish your lamp! It's stunning.

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  12. The mobile is wonderful! And your Tiffany lamp - divine!

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  13. That is definitely a gorgeous lamp!

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