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Keeping Busy

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I can't believe a month has gone by since I posted, in between a few days in Vegas for work, and catching a really rotten cold, I've gotten a couple of projects finished, although not everything I've wanted to accomplish is done. The big project that I finally got completed tonight is the lamp project. It's really an altered object project. I got an old brass lamp from a friend and decided I wanted to revamp it for use in my living room. So, here are the lamp pieces before...... Sorry this is sideways, for some reason blogger doesn't want to insert the picture correctly. This is the lamp base. These are pictures of the glass that goes on the spider arms of the lamp base. (Again, for some reason blogger doesn't want to insert the picture correctly). Now here's the finished product..... I spray painted the brass base of the lamp silver and used alcohol inks to color the pieces of the glass green and purple. The affect of the alcohol ink on the glas