Lanterns give people a sense of warmth and comfort, it also has the meaning of bringing hope and light. And so, inspired by the colorful, bright, lights when walking down the street, I decided that I should make a lamp for my first wood project because it is both practical, and it has a good meaning. I want to have two sides with strong light coming out from the lamp and two sides with weak light coming out from the lamp, so I designed my lamp on the progressing paper with two sides having the letter of X and B, and the other two sides with a cat and a moon. I have spent a lot of time on changing the the lines and the mm for offset of the cat to make sure it is what I want and the light is weak enough. I had made a few mistakes during the process of making the lamp, for example, I accidentally mixed up the distance of the circle that is between the bottom wood of my lamp, and I accidentally glued the wrong side of the “B”on my lamp.

While making the lamp, I had faced many challenges. Such as designing the decorations for the lamp and drawing out different designs on Fusion. One of the biggest challenge that I faced during the time of making the project was tighten ing and securing the light bulb to the lamp with screws and nuts. I received my light bulb late, but I have already glued nearly all the wooden pieces to my lamp. And so, this turned my lamp into a semi confined space. I wasn’t able to fit my hand in and tighten the nuts on to the screws, and the tools were too big, and so, I changed the size of the screws and nuts and it finally fit in. From this challenge, I have learned that I should make sure that every step is right before I make a move, and I should try from different ways and think from different sides, which I believe will help me a lot in the future when solving problems or facing challenges.

Looking back to the time when I just began designing the product, I want to give some advice to myself while making the product. Stay focus and use your time wisely can be very important while making the project. Sometimes projects can take longer than you think, everything can take up time, do not attempt to finish everything in the last day of class. It is important to finish your tasks during class time, if you do not, it will be necessary to finish your task in home. The second advice I want to give to myself or the students is to make sure you are done with every steps of your project. No matter when you are at home or in class, keep an eye on the every steps you make. Do what I do now will effect the future of my project? Try to make less mistakes as possible. At last I want to give one advice to Ms.Kim about this project, I believe it will be a great idea if we have a chart for steps that we are making our product or make us an own chart of the progress of where we are in the project. This will better contact and we can know better on where we are in the project.

Overall, whether the final product for this project is successful. I still want to thank all the students and teachers who helped me during this project.