(Lava Chat)

Took my breath away!

I fired up some nice warm lava tonight after a long gentle sleep for all my lamps. Been days if not weeks.....Anyhow. I just could not help but comment that watching all those blobs and streamers of lava, and all the counter reactions to lava pulling apart and wobbling and falling back to the bottom.....Is actually breathtakingly.........Pretty......if not absolutely beautiful. Or am I just getting funky.....!!? I gotta do this more often! I was actually toying with the notion of selling off all my lamps......NO.

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Permalink Reply by Music in a bottle on January 27, 2010 at 11:12pm

BAH!!! I guess I'm alone on this...... Ho Hum.

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Permalink Reply by Jonas Clark-Elliott on January 28, 2010 at 6:14am

No. No, you're not alone. I have my largest display of 35 lamps arranged in a sort of pyramid, and only 11 of them are glitters. I tried for diversity on sizes, shapes, designs and colors, and all are on one switch. And I frequently turn them all on, sit back, and just get lost in the flow. It's the number one reason to have these lamps. As the box copy used to say:

Lava Lite - The exotic decorator lite that soothes, intrigues, fascinates, entertains.

One collector on here, whose name I can never remember, doesn't even collect unusual shapes or models. He buys black-based lamps, and goes for variety of color. And that's what the Midnight, etc. were sold as: the lamp base vanishes in the dark, leaving only the fascinating motion.

As the original, first 1965 flyer states: The glowing, moving liquid inside shouts, "Don't take your eyes off me!"

Yes, they are breathtakingly beautiful. Mysterious and elegant.