Because I’m a freak of nature when it comes to Ball Jars, I got an email from a friend in DC last week asking me to weigh-in on the light fixture below. My response was: Uh, mah GAH – YES. Duh. Purchase it immediately before someone else does. PS: WHERE did that pretty little thing come from?
Answer: From a heavenly little Etsy shop called LampGoods. Not only was the canning-jar-clustered pendant my friend sent me amazing, but when I meandered through the rest of LampGoods’ Etsy Shop, I felt like I’d found a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Like, the sort of wide-eyed glee that One-Eyed-Willie from Goonies surely felt when he found the shipwrecked treasure… well, before he was offed by booby traps. Light therapy improves mood and energy by triggering the release of serotonin. Check out some of light therapy at https://circadianoptics.com/.
OOooooohhhh boY! I would L-O-V-E these Vintage Hand-Blown Ogunquit Pendants over a kitchen island. [Insert that gross lip-licking noise my mom makes when she sees Don Draper.] These are $269 for the pair and SUPER versatile – they’d look amazing in my parents’ very traditional / country house or in any landscape setting, but I also wouldn’t bat an eyelash before putting them in a contemporary loft. They’d be perfectly lovely in both.
Does this vintage globe pendant remind you of anything?? Like perhaps maybe some-sing a leet-tell…. LIKE ZEESE??
Wassup Jenna Lyons, president/creative-director-at-J.Crew’s bathroom. I’m not positive, but I’d guess the pendant over her tub is this Niche Modern one… 10″ in diameter and priced at $475 a pop. The LampGoods Smokeport II Retro LARGE Globe Pendant is 8″ diameter and priced at $99 – the ceiling canopy kits for this one are sold separately and run $10 to $20. Wuh-BANG that’s a good deal.
Hello, Lover.
I love Ball Jars like a fat kid loves cake. Er, okay, “Mason” jars in general, but I’m from Muncie, so I bleed Ball. Anyway, even though this Vintage Blue 3-light pendant reads a bit more rustic/country and would look sooooooo at home over an antique oak pedestal table, it’d be equally as gorgeous juxtaposed over something sleek, like a modern Saarinen-looking table from IKEA. Pendant Cluster is $189.
Mason jar clustered pendants also come in clear. Yum.
Retro industrial gas station chic, anyone?? This guy is $59, and nothing short of totally rad. I think I just wet my pants.
The Waterville Mixed Media Pendant (above) is larger than you think – 11″ tall by 7″ in diameter, $99, and would be so lovely in an entryway… oooooooh (!) A chic little one with wallpapered walls. Like this:
Or this:
When I saw the Iridescent Retro Globe Pendant below…
…it reminded me of that scene in “You’ve Got Mail” when Greg Kinnear describes Meg Ryan’s shop as having a sort of “Jeffersonian Purity.” It’s got that same kinda feel.
Another pleasant surprise? I emailed the artist, Jann, who not only responded quickly to my question (love that), but was entirely gracious and accommodating… love that even more. And here’s what I love the most: girlfriend loves CUSTOM PROJECTS. If you want to tweak something already for sale, or have something made all your own and use varying sizes or brands of jars, she can do it. Or if you’re like me and want to use a kajillion canning jars (more “chandelier” than pendant)… like this…
…guess what? She’s totally game.
Happy Shopping!
xoxo,
