From the shining city of War Drobe in the far land of Spare, Oops!

Another Christmas has come and gone, and it's always fun to see the wonderful little items that you can find on after Christmas sales. I usually have this funny idea that everything I'm seeing is undiscovered and forgotten and because the "big buying season" is over and the prices on what's left on the shelves is so low (usually) it becomes for me, a treasure hunt on the island of misfit toys...

I was out with my Sweetiwife and she found something she just fell in love with. It was an old victorian style little lamp post with a Christmas wreath hung on it. It reminded me of the lamp post from "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe". A really cute little piece, and at an incredible price because it was broken. One of the ornamental corners at the top of the lamp was broken completely off and gone. Oh, and it was supposed to light up but that was broken too. 

But it was still so charming and Sweetiwife just really loved it so we got it!

Now, in the excitement of finding this little beauty, being the enchanting little piece that it is, I was quoted as having said, "oh, I can fix that for you!" So after getting it home and with several weeks of ruminating and deliberating, and because I love that my Sweetiwife loved it so much, 

I went to work.

Now originally I hadn't planned to put this project on here so I don't have any "during the process" pictures so sorry 'bout that. I basically cast a mold from one of the other embellishments and attached it where it was missing. After a little sanding and grinding it down to match the existing lines in the design, and some corresponding colors (I should say colours shouldn't I?) for the base dark gray and the light green highlights, I think it turned out quite nice.

 

Sweetiwife thinks this needs to stay out all year long.

I'm ok with that...