Make a Photo Lamp of Your Travels!
I scored big points with this project I did for my wife a couple of Christmas's ago. A few years back, we had the awesome fortune to find ourselves unemployed at the same time. Instead of being responsible and finding new employment so that we could ensure a happy and prosperous future with our 3 year old son, we decided it would be better to go around the world for six months! I can't recommend this enough... we hung out in Thailand, Nepal, the Philippines, Turkey, China and Italy. Our son was 3.5 years old when we left, and he still brings up memories and images from the trip.
Anyway, we took a lot of pictures! We have this awesome Contax medium format camera that we lugged everywhere and took turns taking pictures of all kinds of things. When we got back, I made a couple of albums from the trip; framed a few of the better shots. But after a while, we never opened the albums, and the frames got replaced with the growing number of shots taken of our expanding family of kids and dogs.
So, I decided to make a lamp out of some of our favorite shots. I bought a Chinese lantern style tabletop lamp from Target, cut out the paper shade, and replaced it with pictures from our trip. I used this great photo transparency paper from Canon and printed the photos right on my home printer. Each photo is glued in place... and that's it. The look of the photos back lit with a soft light is beautiful. It sits in our kitchen as a warm reminder of a great time in our lives - and a promise of more good times to follow.
I scored big points with this project I did for my wife a couple of Christmas's ago. A few years back, we had the awesome fortune to find ourselves unemployed at the same time. Instead of being responsible and finding new employment so that we could ensure a happy and prosperous future with our 3 year old son, we decided it would be better to go around the world for six months! I can't recommend this enough... we hung out in Thailand, Nepal, the Philippines, Turkey, China and Italy. Our son was 3.5 years old when we left, and he still brings up memories and images from the trip.
Anyway, we took a lot of pictures! We have this awesome Contax medium format camera that we lugged everywhere and took turns taking pictures of all kinds of things. When we got back, I made a couple of albums from the trip; framed a few of the better shots. But after a while, we never opened the albums, and the frames got replaced with the growing number of shots taken of our expanding family of kids and dogs.
So, I decided to make a lamp out of some of our favorite shots. I bought a Chinese lantern style tabletop lamp from Target, cut out the paper shade, and replaced it with pictures from our trip. I used this great photo transparency paper from Canon and printed the photos right on my home printer. Each photo is glued in place... and that's it. The look of the photos back lit with a soft light is beautiful. It sits in our kitchen as a warm reminder of a great time in our lives - and a promise of more good times to follow.
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