A good lamp
Do you remember a year and a half ago when I talked about needing a new lamp, and the choices I was looking at*? Well, apparently that’s how long it takes to make a decision, and/or decide how in need you are of a new lamp. Can’t just half of the living room be lit properly? A decision was made, and we scooped up the Ada lamp at CB2 last night (that box was particularly fun to take home on the subway.) It’s super awesome, and the shade is so much nicer in person – it’s not white, but a sort of off-white silk-like textured fabric that gives it a vintage look. For $60 (a steal) I give it the thumbs up. It is odd to buy a lamp with the same name that you hope to give your future daughter someday, but if that does happen we’ll just not mention the lamp to her. That would be awkward.
*you may have commented on that post, but who would know, because apparently comments on old posts have vanished. Deep breath.
That was a really long post about a lamp. I blame the fever that I seem to be coming down with.
April 28th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Okay, but you know that what we really want to see is how well it is styled in your home, right?
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April 28th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
It’s actually sitting in the messiest living room ever right now. Maybe this weekend, ha.
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April 28th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Mkay. Deep yoga breathing for both of us. You with your comments that R-U-N-N-O-F-T and me with my tiny unalterable images. Curses, Blogger. Curses. I’m taking your advice and finally making a Flickr account.
With regard to the lamp: it rocks. And it’s delightfully appropriate that you love the name Ada. It’s one of my absolute favorite old-fashioned names (along with Olive and Ida) and the name of a 17-hand Percheron mare we sisters are trying to talk my farmwyfe mother into adopting and bringing home to our farm back in Dirty Jerz. Because she is effing broad as the day is long and gentle as a milk cow. *And she comes with her own harness and cart.* So you keep Ada the Alluminating Lamp and I’ll keep pestering Mama Stocks about Ada the Anormous Draft Horse.
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April 28th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
We went through the same lamp toil. Who knew finding a simple table lamp would be so hard?! We bought this lamp a few months back & love it! Definitely worth the wait.
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April 28th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
i love this lamp! its one of the only things in my house that i bought brand new, not on sale. i ordered it online and it shipped to my house, i could not believe how much packaging they used! it was crazy!
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April 28th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
i had a lamp on my christmas wish list this year but never got around to picking one out! this one is really neat.
also, one of my dance campers last summer was named ada. she was a really wonderful girl! good name.
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April 29th, 2010 at 8:42 am
isn’t it funny how something as simple as a lamp can make a room feel so much more put together? i have one room in my apartment that is missing good lamps and lighting in general, and it just feels so neglected. go lighting!
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April 29th, 2010 at 11:16 am
very cute… they always have the cutest stuff!
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April 29th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
the lamp is great, but more importantly i LOVE the name ada.
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April 30th, 2010 at 12:32 am
Do you remember a year and a half ago when I talked about needing a new lamp, and the choices I was looking at*?
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May 1st, 2010 at 9:39 pm
I laughed aloud at your aside about the awkwardness of the name overlap. Funny, but true!
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