Dusting…..

It isn't hard to keep our condo clean. After all, it's usually just the two of us and a small dog running around the rooms. We don't seem to generate too much dust so I don't bother to find my dust rag more than once a week or so. And it is a quick chore.

But when I get to my favorite lamp…..I dust more slowly. This piece is just so special to me. It's filled with memories. Little bits and pieces from places we've been….now beautifully on display in my favorite lamp.

We'd collected the stones, beach glass, shells and more during the two years we lived aboard our sailboat. And we collected more as we've wandered around in our little RV in the past three years. Most of the "stuff" ended up out of sight in a shoe box hiding in a drawer until I found this glass lamp on the internet.

Once it arrived in the mail I unpacked our souvenirs and started to layer them inside the glass. Stones on top of shells, on top of beach glass, next to more shells on top of a small piece of coral. A brown "heart" seed from a Bahama beach, a striped rock from a beach near Seattle, an angel's wing from the beach in Florida and a wonderful piece of driftwood that reminds me of a dragon's head from who know's where. There are touches of color in the small bits of beach glass from Lake Michigan's shore. Browns and beiges, greys and whites.

This lamp makes me happy. Everytime I turn it on in the evening, or run my dust rag around the glass top and sides it just makes me happy.

I love my lamp.