Maniac/Maker

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>fall in love with a $300 origami bird lamp on Amazon

>this origami bird lamp:

>refuse to pay $300 for a floor lamp

>seller looks sketchy anyway

>I can totally do origami 🤔

>wait this isn’t actually origami

>*deep dive into papercrafting*

>I can totally do papercrafting

>OOO A CHONKY BIRB

>bird is too small and computer paper is too opaque and I can see the printed numbers through the paper which looks messy

>scale up bird pattern

>print on vellum paper with lowered opacity

>can’t see the numbers at all now and that’s kind of important for assembly purposes

>assemble them blind! 😵‍💫

>perfect

>all I have to do is find a cheap floor lamp base and put these paper birds on it

>cheap lamp base with arms and sockets in the right configuration doesn’t exist

>wait a lamp base is just a pipe with wires running inside it

>”hey babe, could you make a floor lamp base out of copper pipe for less than $300?”

>”uhhhh yeah but it’s still not going to be cheap”

>”we’ll just get stuff from the plumbing section, it’ll be like $50 total. And they make DIY lamp wiring kits”

>turns out copper t-fittings do, in fact, cost $10 apiece and we need a lot more pieces than anticipated 😬

>too far in to back out now! 🙃

>they do not make lamp wiring kits for lamps that have three sockets in individual arms that combine to one wire and plug

>luckily, Husband knows how to solder!

>”I hate soldering so f*cking much 😑”

>”😬😬😬”

>it works!!

>”honey, I love you, but I am never making another floor lamp as long as I live”

>deal 😍

>fall in love with a $300 origami bird lamp on Amazon

>this origami bird lamp:

>refuse to pay $300 for a floor lamp

>seller looks sketchy anyway

>I can totally do origami 🤔

>wait this isn’t actually origami

>*deep dive into papercrafting*

>I can totally do papercrafting

>OOO A CHONKY BIRB

>bird is too small and computer paper is too opaque and I can see the printed numbers through the paper which looks messy

>scale up bird pattern

>print on vellum paper with lowered opacity

>can’t see the numbers at all now and that’s kind of important for assembly purposes

>assemble them blind! 😵‍💫

>perfect

>all I have to do is find a cheap floor lamp base and put these paper birds on it

>cheap lamp base with arms and sockets in the right configuration doesn’t exist

>wait a lamp base is just a pipe with wires running inside it

>”hey babe, could you make a floor lamp base out of copper pipe for less than $300?”

>”uhhhh yeah but it’s still not going to be cheap”

>”we’ll just get stuff from the plumbing section, it’ll be like $50 total. And they make DIY lamp wiring kits”

>turns out copper t-fittings do, in fact, cost $10 apiece and we need a lot more pieces than anticipated 😬

>too far in to back out now! 🙃

>they do not make lamp wiring kits for lamps that have three sockets in individual arms that combine to one wire and plug

>luckily, Husband knows how to solder!

>”I hate soldering so f*cking much 😑”

>”😬😬😬”

>it works!!

>”honey, I love you, but I am never making another floor lamp as long as I live”

>deal 😍