Vintage? Lamps

I have these old lamps in the living room.  I don't think they are actually Vintage, but I wanted to play along with Jenny Matlock and her Alphabe-Thursday and this weeks letter is V.  We bought these lamps when our oldest was just a baby - He's going to be 21 soon!  We ordered them from JCPenney's - back before the INTERNET!  We found them in the CATALOG and had to fill out the order form by hand and mail it in!  Remember those days??  Anyway...

I'm tired of these lamps.  They're OLD.  But hey, they still work and new lamps are expensive, so I'm keeping them.  Yesterday I decided they needed an update.  Here's the lovely before -

{The shades are not original, but are about 8 years old.  I should update them as well!}

Shiny glass with brass trim.  And these are Mike's FAVORITE lamps!  I decided to wrap the bases in twine.  I'd seen lots of them on Pinterest - Most with thicker twine.  It took forever to wrap my lamp base with the smaller twine, but I like how it turned out.  Mike's reaction?  "What are you doing to my favorite lamps?!"

For more on the letter V - be sure to head over to Jenny's.