My $10 Desk Lamp

If your Goodwill is like mine, there is usually an abundance of old ginger jar lamp bases that look similar to the ones pictured here:

Seriously.  They are most likely disguised by a coat of dust and sometimes a sad shade of country blue:

I found this one for the attractive price of $3 and thought the short round shape would make a great little desk lamp.

After sponge brushing on a couple of coats of the green I used to paint this, and adding a $7 shade I found at a consignment store:

I decided to leave the lamp base brass. . . .You can see my paint job was not perfection, but I can live with it.