Awhile ago I found this lamp and fell in love with it.  I am drawn to anything natural and especially like anything reclaimed.  It is one of a kind made straight from a naturally fallen tree, and I just adore it.  We always needed something like a floor lamp in that spot in our den and when I came upon this I knew it was perfect for us.  Our bed is made from naturally fallen cedar logs and it was actually mine before we married.  Then we have an end table and a stump stool made from reclaimed teak tree roots.  When we were first married I found a solid chair carved from a dead tree but they wanted something exorbitant for it … like $2,500!  About a month later I took my husband to a tribal festival in Oklahoma and I found almost the EXACT same chair … for around $200!  I was astounded and ecstatic and to date it remains my greatest coup.  I love to read and I have used that chair, the lamp and my bed all for the purpose of a comfortable escape.  American novelist Elizabeth Hardwick once said:

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.  It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.  It is a moral illumination.”

My quest continues to find unique things that are natural and reclaimed as well as great books to get lost in … for illumination.