Action, Lights, Camera

There is nothing like having a good friend, who knows you really well, come for a visit and light a fire under the projects that have gone ignored for far too long. Shannon got here Friday afternoon, we enjoyed a nice dinner and quiet evening here at the house. Saturday morning she and I ventured out on our own while Brian stayed behind with the girls. We did a little shopping and were headed home when we spotted an interesting thrift store...flea market...junk store that looked like it needed to be explored. So we did, and we found this.


and this


There was some other things too but that's going to be another post...the pieces we brought home helped me finally focus in on what color/style lights I wanted to buy to replace the ever so lovely brass originals from 1988. And their crazy ugly ceiling decoration thingy.

This stuff.


We found this on the back of the big one. All original...


So we brought the stuff home and ran off to Lowes to get the new lights. Replacing them was a great deal of fun, cough, cough. But the end result was well worth it.

Look April...pineapples!


Both of them!


This is the last one up for immediate replacement. It's 20' up in the air so once I figure out how to balance the ladder on the stairs and fight the thing off the ceiling it's outta here!