In the “why didn’t we think of this sooner?” category: This sweet little lamp was sitting over on the blue bench for the longest time. We hardly ever turned it on. About two weeks ago, I started thinking that it would look good on the piano. We needed some light on that end of the room.
When I brought the dollhouse home, I put it on the blue bench, and the lamp had nowhere to go. Except the piano. So, I pulled the piano from the wall and plugged it in. We rearranged things on the piano (the two little birds are now elsewhere) and, wow! We have light over there.
It makes an enormous difference. It lights up our Aquitania lithograph. It shows the grain of the mahogany. It lights up the Hymns board on the wall next to the piano. The light from the red shade that I bought a long time ago looks really wonderful. The red is picked up in the towers on the Aquitania.
And, when the piano is repaired and tuned, we will have light to read the music by.
Such a simple thing. But what a difference!
We bought that lamp after we moved out east, probably around 15 years ago. It was the very first of what would eventually be several little lamps that are scattered around our house. I like little lamps. I like lamplight. (I hate overhead lights, except the pot lights in the kitchen.) Anyway, we found it in a little antique shop in Millbrook, NY. We snagged the lamp and the kitchen cabinet/cupboard from the same shop on the same day.
We were charmed by the boy and girl, walking together, arm-in-arm. Both are carrying flowers. She has a basket of flowers. He has a bunch of flowers that he’s holding up in his right hand. It’s so nice to see it again.
Don tells me it’s one of his favorite things.
Look at those sweet, happy faces!
Today, I’m going to bake the linzer cookies that I baked last year. Tomorrow, I’ll be baking our annual Christmas Coffee Cake. Also on deck: some present wrapping, some Christmas music and some cleaning.
Happy Sunday.
