Kenneth Lambert builds custom-made table lamps and is called Sir Lamps-A-Lot by his granddaughter.  Some of these lamps will be available at the Junaluska Woman’s Club Creative Endeavors Craft Show Aug. 10 to 11, at the Harrell Center Auditorium, Lake Junaluska.

The lamp building interest came from family suggestions.  It started as his wife, Gwen, and her daughter, Kathleen, who are excellent decorators, found ideas in magazines and said, “Kenneth, couldn’t you make this?”

First it was cups and saucers on a copper pipe to be placed outside as garden décor.  Hundreds have been made with more coming regularly.  Some are filled with birdseed, others with water, and others are simply placed as color dots in front of green foliage.

Then Kathleen observed cups and saucers stacked together as ...