the porch light from middle-earth

One of the odd things about blogging is that you sometimes find yourself presuming that someone in the universe besides yourself is actually interested in your porch light. That's probably not good.

But since suziebeezieland is a sporadic record of selected items from my actual life, and since I don't talk politics or play sports, and since I can't stand gossip and don't really know how to knit, here you go. A brief synopsis of my porch light. 

As you may recall, (1) the first light I ordered was backordered until May, and wouldn't have fit, anyway, because I measured incorrectly, which I found out when (2) the second light arrived and didn't fit, because of the previously aforementioned incorrect measuring. (That little sliver of wall between the lamp and the door is EXACTLY eight inches wide. It is hard to find a cute lamp with a projection less than eight inches.) 

So Bob picked (3) the third light. He spotted it while I was dejectedly browsing lights online, and said "Get that one! It looks Hobbit-y!"

It didn't strike me as something I would necessarily have picked out on my own. I tend to like cleaner lines, and I'm not a fan of faux metal finishes. But I was kind of worn out with myself about the porch light at this point, because let's face it ... you probably shouldn't spend more than a few minutes of your life thinking about your porch light. And accurate measuring is definitely Bob's strong suit, and he so rarely has design opinions that I love to do what he suggests when he does speak up.

And so I ordered it, and I love it so much! It's so wee and cute! It does, indeed, look like something Tolkien would have come up with if he had pursued a career in lighting rather than the English language. 

It's darling and storybook-y, and it fits in the little space, and it functions. And it has the soft lines we needed to break up all the strong vertical and horizontal lines out front. I don't think any of the lights I picked would have been as good.

So Bob's hired, man. Never underestimate a guy who takes his design cues from The Shire. He can choose all the lights from now on.