Birds..um, I mean behrds
After spending some time in London, it's quite evident that there is a fascination among the English with birds, ahem behrds. Maybe it's the countless bread-fed pigeons that roam the streets or the mud-hen, which I find pretty and not muddy at all and have renamed the "two-color duck", swimming in Regents Canal. Maybe it's the swans along the Thames. So, a trip into Marlyebone to The Conran Shop made me squeal with delight when I saw this fanciful bird lamp. I've seen it before in magazines, but it's different in person, like a handcraft your grandmother would give you if she owned a bad-ass welder and had a tiny, fake, feathered flock.
I want to own this lovely ornament but then, there's the logical part of me that says, "Jimeney Christmas! This thing costs $640! I could buy a cr...