Random paragraphs of crap
There’s a chandelier I found which I love. I want to want a cool modern one — but I don’t, I want a classic crystal chandelier, it’s all I can envision. I go and see beautiful modern ones and think yes, but not for me. Classic sense of style or lack of imagination? You be the judge!
I have also decided on what to do so that I have living room lights I like: I will make some kind of ceiling light out of stained glass. I am having trouble finding patterns in my 30 seconds of searching, but no doubt if I made an actual effort I could get something right. (You ask why I need a pattern? Because lightshades have more angles and things and I have never worked with those before, and it’s much easier to switch around an existing pattern than to make one up all on your own, for non-flat things.)
Tomorrow: floor people. I am currently debating the hire movers/beg friends options. It’s the third floor, so I feel guilty asking for help carting boxes up all those stairs. Also, I guess, I just don’t like asking for this much help. I am not sure why.
October 31st, 2005 at 12:14 am
I recently helped a friend move out of a third-floor place with *narrow twisty steep* stairs, and a while back I moved her into that place too. I don’t mind, I’m always up for a moving party. Of course your local friends might feel differently — it’s easy for me to say at a safe distance. A lot depends on how many friends you can gather at once. With six or eight people a moving party is fun. With only two people it’s not always so much fun.
October 31st, 2005 at 8:39 am
Your friends won’t mind, I think. Provided you provide enticements (hot chocolate would be appropriate at this time of year, right?). Most of your friends have moved thanks to the goodness of friends themselves…
October 31st, 2005 at 10:33 am
So I’ll take that as an offer of help from you two, then? Great!
October 31st, 2005 at 2:22 pm
Is the lightshade hard to design from scratch because the geometry is hard? If so, you have lots of mathy friends among your readers who would be pleased to help. Well, I would be, anyway, and probably so would Rudbeckia H. and Moebius S.
October 31st, 2005 at 2:45 pm
Yes, that is it, in part. But in other parts: I do not have the ability to make the electrical stuff, so I need to find the base etc, and they usually have standard pattern shapes that go with them — so I don’t know, eg, if it should be 4-sided or 6-sided, and I don’t know what angle it should go back from the centre — 15 degrees? 30? Plus there are matching sides etc — I could probably do it, but it’s easier to start with a pattern then fiddle, especially my first time.
I have never made anything 3d that didn’t use right angles, so this could be a fun new thing. It will certainly improve my skills at being perfectly accurate with sizes.
November 10th, 2005 at 6:50 pm
Oof, a long time since you answered me, and I never re-responded.
If you want to go in the direction of the fun new thing, I’d recommend playing with cutting out bits of cardboard and taping them up with masking tape. That would give you a cheap, easy way to mock up your ideas. When you start to get close to something you like, you can continue to zero in on the right measurements by using cardboard, or just post a picture and one of your mathy online friends will give you the measurements.