Jan 2025 – Home Office Charm

Easily Swap Empire Lampshades with Duplex Fittings

This week, my YouTube video addressed a question from one of my subscribers. They asked for a video explaining how the duplex fitting can be used. I show how they’re used to suspend a lampshade from above. Lampshades can be suspended from a ceiling cable or wires on either side of a bed. We often see the suspending of smaller lampshades in industrial-style or fishing rod-style floor lamps.

In the video, I show details of the spider attachment. You get to see how I easily swap over various styles of lampshades. It’s less bothersome to do the same with the usual fittings.

Please ensure your lampshade has the duplex fitting when you buy from my shop. This ensures ease of swapping over. This enables you to use an empire shape. You can suspend it from above or place it on top of a table lamp.

Below is a bonus video showing how the same duplex frame on my Empire lamps can also be used as a table lamp. In essence, you don’t need to turn the lampshade upside down.

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Enhance Your Virtual Background for Confident Video Calls

Creative Workspaces, Organisational Aesthetics

This video explains why I started creating and making items to help virtual working professionals stage their on-camera backgrounds to emanate meaning about how they work with people, on projects, and in programmes, so they can confidently always feel proud to switch their cameras on.

Transforming Leadership Through Art: Join My Journey

Personal Reflections

Welcome to 2025.

I continue logging my now developed practice and process of sharpening my artistic talents. The first half of the year will see less written content from me. Instead I shall be creating more videos and providing links of what I have uploaded from my you tube channel.

https://videopress.com/v/w0UqPb1q?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true

I also integrate more of my insights from my executive team coaching course that I did as I found I can use my practice as an artist and maker to help senior executive teams and virtual teams become more effective. Look out for the calls for participants to the inaugural art led executive team coaching programs, that I will personally offer and deliver early to mid 2025.

So for this week, enjoy this video of me taking down my Christmas decorations from my own home office backdrop. It might perhaps be symbolic of marking the end of an era as this year I integrate more of my talents into on sophisticated offering to the world.

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