Everytime I went down into the cellar, I saw the two

antique oil-lamps

that I had used for the "

CHILDREN OF THE CORN

" video (and other things), now gathering cobwebs and rusting away in the dark.
 
The lamps are from the 1930s/40s, and the German company that used to manufacture them had these cute, little

bats

for their logo, which were both on the glass, as well as on the tank ... and each time I looked at them now, I was feeling

guilty

for letting them go to waste in the cold, damp cellar.

I had a big, old hammer and a screwdriver (which had been sharpened to a pricker/awl), so that's what I used to gradually punch a hole into the top and the bottom of the tank...

In my defense, the lamps had

already

been rusty and leaking when I first got them, so one really couldn't (shouldn't) fill them up with oil anymore anyway (though I

had

done so a few times in the past), which, in essence, rendered them

useless

now.
 
Still, though ... they had these

pretty bats

on them ... and because bats generally deserve better, I finally decided to clean them up "good" (meaning as well as my patience would allow) and then

ELECTRIFY

them !!!
 

...and when I pompously say "electrify", I mean I was going to (try to) cut a hole into it ...and then merely sit the entire thing on top of an already existing electrical lamp.

Like a glorified lampshade, basically.

The electrical lamp is a very basic one with an E14 socket, and the LED-light is supposed to simulate the warm, comfy look of a very small, flickering fire ...

Because I

didn't

cut away the entire bottom of the tank, the oil-lamp seemed to be "floating" stupidly in the air when sitting on top of the electrical socket, so I had to make a base/ring for the socket to go inside (and the oil-lamp to sit on).
 
The rings are made from

wood

(spruce) with a piece of

cardboard

in the centre as the bottom, because that's what I had lying around...

When it was finally time to put it all back together...
 
...

I managed to DROP the glass

.

Of course I did.

For a second or so, I thought that I might still be able to use the broken glass as is, because, if nothing else, it was certainly "a look" ... but it only made me sad. -- I was already considering to throw everything in the trash, when a friend convinced me to just put it all aside for a week...

Eventually, I agreed to order a

modern

replacement for the glass. It is noticeably thinner than the original, and it does not have a beautiful bat on it either.

This is what they look like together now:

Now that they're done, I realise that I actually have

no space

for either of them.
I'll probably wrap them up, put them in a box ... and then carry them back into the cellar.

I was gifted this cheaply looking, plastic

Halloween-skeleton-bat

, and at first I was considering to throw it in the trash, because I didn't like it ... (I like throwing things in the trash, though) ... but then I

sighed

, painted it black (as one does) and just put it on top of the smaller of the two lamps.

Silly, I know, but ... whatever.