Dissecting a Faucet

For years we have this beautiful brass faucet. Due to some damages not usable as a faucet it was begging to become a Steampunk lamp.

After a thorough internet search by mum we had beautiful wiring, socket and plug and also scored a heavy cast iron feet where the faucet fits perfectly in.

I sawed off the attached copper pipes and had to completely put all pieces apart of the faucet to be able to wire it. It was quite funny to see the anatomy (hence the title with dissecting)  of the faucet. I had to make it worse before it could get better.
After the plumbing lessons I also had some electricity lessons (yaay for youtube) and finished the awesome ( if I may say so) Steampunk lamp.

The cast iron foot was a perfect fit, the lamp is heavy (4.4 kg - 9 lb 7 oz) making it very stable.

It is funny it took ages but not the making of it more collecting the parts and also I thought I would need an electrician but turns out it was easy to do it myself.

Now that I know that I can handle it and always can ask dear YouTube for help there might appear some more lamps in the near future :)

The lamp is available in our StarHomeStudio shop, right now it has an USA plug but that can be changed to another Country's system :)

Monday Moodboard

1. stephmel  2. lessandmore  3. ReComputing  4. FiligreeCreations

Today we have no electricity from 7am till 5pm, this is now the 4th day in the past 10 days as they are working on the general lines in this area. No electricity means no light, no internet, no cooking, and lots more. So this moodboards is programmed the day before so that you atleast don't have any Monday Moodboards withdrawals :)

Have an enlighting Monday everyone!

RULES: Feature your fellow EuropeanStreetTeam mates by making a mosaic. You can add your link here so that others can see it! Please only add your link if the mosaic features Team mates!

Please link back to this blogpost so that everyone can check the other Monday Moodboards.

Flickr Favorites- Storm and Electricity

1. Electricity Cables, 2. A Peculiar Sort of Thing, 3. Re-worked lightning, 4. Lightning in Perhentian Island, Terengganu, Malaysia

Don't worry, the reason of this dark mosaic is not depression. We had a big storm at the night between thursday and friday. When we woke up at friday morning electricity went beserk and the lights were burning twice as much as normal which indicated that the coming electricity had a much higher volt then usual. As we were still not really awake and without coffee in our systems it took us a few minutes to realize what was happening and of course the fact that smoke was coming out of the tv was not a good sign. We switched off the electricity asap, but several machines are now in early retirement. Also our neigbors suffered the same thing and we were without electricity for 2 days. Now a fight with the electricity company will start to let them pay the damages *sigh*.

See more beautiful mosaics at ArtMind's Blog!

This is a photograph I took of the seaside from our town, Marmaris. During summer time it is full with boats for daily trips and full with tourists all sunburned and happy :) In winter time the waves are the owners of this place, quiet magical.