Blast from the past!

[Reszound]

Hello goo lovers! Wow it's been many years since I've posted here - thanks for not deleting my page! It's been a crazy few years trying to survive having kids so very little has been happening on the lava front - way too risky having them in range of little hands for starters, plus there's been a couple of house moves so most of them have been hiding away in the garage for a long time :( I've just discovered the magic of glitter lamps though and have been getting back into lamp mania again :) On the glitter front, I thought you'd all be interested in this if you haven't seen it already:

http://goolamp.com/en/

http://www.youtube.com/user/PepeDaSilva2009

Custom glitter kits in Mathmos bottles (every kind except fluidium by the looks...) It's pretty expensive for the poor old Aussie $, especially with postage on top, but they look amazing!

If anyone has any of these, or has any experience with these bottles / kits, pls let me know all about it.

Cheers all, it's good to be back!

Rez

[ElectricAstro]

Hey Rez! Good to see you back! Do you still have that gold glitter Lockwood?

[Bohdan]

Great to see you back. That goolamp site is fantastic!!

[Claude J]

Maurice has finally got it all together

I'm told he has some issues with sealing the larger lunar bottles in the early stages of design but has performed famously now.

The Glitter formula is supposed to mimic the Mathmos slow motion design.

I plan on getting a 200% and a 150% bottle when I can afford it.

[Reszound]

Hi guys and thanks for the welcome back, great to see you're all still in action!

Wow Anthony, how's your memory chops, yes I most certainly still have the gold glitter lockwood, it's the only one that stayed out of the garage over the last few years, it looks amazing and is one of my favourite lamps - a great score off ebay for $80 back in the day too :)

Thanks Claude for the info on Maurices glitter - it looks fantastic and I'm aiming for 2 of his astro bottles in the next few weeks hopefully... I'd love to refill a grande with his stuff too too but at AUD rates it'd end up costing about $325 just for the glitter kit (delivered), so I might need to explore cheaper plan b options for now, the lava budget isn't what it used to be anymore :-/ if you have any ideas on this pls hit me up :)

Hope you guys have all been happy and well!

[Claude J]

Thank you

Lava Lamp currently has an option of buying the color base and contents of your desire with their "Custom Cool" option.

One of which is glitter.

You can always use acetone and scrub the paint off of the globe if the multi-color is not to your liking.

https://lavalamp.com/product/9998/

[Bohdan]

That is a great idea to make a clear vase.

[Claude J]

YES!

I've done it already

The paint job on a multicolor Grande completely sucked when they first came out.

All it takes is a respirator, a stainless steel sink, 1 small can of acetone and a Scotchbright pad or steel wool.

[Marcel]

Hi,

I dont think you are right with the 325$ for the Grande kit.
If I calculate:
170,40$ Australien Dollar for the kit.

[Reszound]

Thanks Marcel I'll double check it and pm you

[Marcel]

Hi,

nice to see you are interested in my onlineshop/products.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me :-)

[Reszound]

Sounds like quite the work out to attack a grande bottle like that! I'm also keen to top up a couple of mathmos glitter bottles with extra glitter as they're quite light on and I like the look of the ones that have more rather than less glitter. Any recommendations for what sort of foil to use? I'm guessing it's not garden variety supermarket stuff...?

[Esteban Zifferblatt]

Hi Rez,

in the last weeks I bought six different little glitter bottle (suitable for Fireflow) and two Astrobaby size glitter bottles - and I am absolutely happy with them. I wrapped all my original Lava bottles in their boxes again.

For some days I loved watching the glitter and the lava side by side, but, frankly, the glitter is much more beautiful to me.

If I recall my Mathmos glitter from the 1990s correctly, I consider the new Goolamp glitter more slowly, what I do prefer. It's sort of more relaxing. The colors are fantastic, too. Not that disco, more subtle.

Frankly, I use the Astrobaby with my Neo lamps. It works perfectly. Shiny, vivid, and much more attractive than in the 1990s.

I only learned by accident, that one has to shake a glitter bottle frequently to make the glitter flow. Once a week does for me, the before and after effect is always stunning.

Promise to take a picture of a line up of my glitter bottles in the next months. Need to find a nice background an some time to make the fotos. But as always: These lamps looks better in reality than on screen.

Cheers, Stefan