Industrial pendant light you can make

As I continue to look at every single page of the new Flea Market Style Magazine, I'm finding some great ideas.  But when I saw their pages about using funnels, I fell over.  See the picture below?  The one of their funnel pendant light?  That's my light!  Well, not my actual light but one just like my light. I've been wanting a new pendant light in my dining room.  I wanted something industrial.  I was considering purchasing this one but just wasn't sure.  Then, my husband and I went to a great architectural salvage place here in Ft. Worth and found this industrial funnel they had already wired as a pendant light.  It wasn't expensive but you could make your own with a funnel and wiring kit.  I've rewired lamps and it's easy.  The directions are actually on the rewiring kit.  After hanging my new light, I added a thin, red stripe around it so that it fit in the room perfectly.  Some laughed at my new fixture, but I loved it.  Now, it's famous!

Here it is in the magazine.

Look closely.

Here's mine!  Exactly the same.

Here it is with the little red stripe!

Serendipity

My husband and I ran into Hobby Lobby a couple of weeks ago for something but I can't even remember what it was.  Whatever it was, we must have bought it because I remember being in the checkout talking with the cashier.  I asked her about a lamp that caught my eye.  I wasn't there to buy a lamp; I wasn't even in the market for a new lamp but I saw this one and we were meant to be.  So I'm asking the cashier about the lamp.  It seemed everything in that store was on sale except the lamp.  I asked, "Are your lamps on sale too by chance?" She replied, "No"...but then she added "but they will be next week. They go on sale every other week."  Well, that's a great tip.  So, next week I went back and just as she said, the lamp was on sale at 50% off!  Yep, I bought it...mostly for the shade.  I love that little shade.  That lamp came home with me and I put it in my den in progress.  Although I wasn't looking for it, it was meant to be.