Lamp - Reboot Robot Made From A Colander
There's nothing I enjoy more than picking up discarded items and turning them into something useful, and this lamp is no exception. He's part of my new Reboot Robot series and I love him. He's just as neat during the day as he is at night when lit! He's made from a pair of vents, a colander, a handful of L brackets, a drawer pull, and nuts, washers, and machine screws. All items were collected at thrifts stores, yard sales, and my local second hand building materials supply store. Height: 11" Diameter: 12" Thanks for looking and please feel free to contact me with any questions!
Meet the Maker
Laura Hale
Found Beauty Studio
Welcome to Found Beauty Studio! This is my one woman attempt to bring a little fun back into the world with bright and functional recycled found object art. I've always been a maker of things. Always. But if you'd told me when I walked out of college with a bachelor's in theatre arts a decade ago in Massachusetts that I'd end up running my own art studio in Burlington, Vermont, I would have called you crazy. I had plans to go on to a successful and illustrious career in costume and set design, and then took a u-turn and worked in program direction and fundraising for nonprofits, and then as a community organizer for local government, and then burned out on the whole 70-hour-work-week-in-a-cubicle life and headed back to art.
Life takes funny twists and turns, and here I am, happier than I could have imagined in the upstairs of a house in the Old North End with my wood worker husband, three fluffy cats, and two turtles (one of whom is fast approaching 30 years old), using my maker-of-things skills to upcycle found materials into new creations. While I do create fine art pieces, my primary love is creating functional pieces - lamps, tote bags, jewelry, furniture, clothing, home goods, planters…the list goes on. I find great joy in taking a used up, forgotten and discarded object and turning it into a one of a kind piece that someone will use and love.
