If It's Not Useful

It should at least be decorative.  (and if it's only useful not not decorative~throw it out and find something better. That's my motto. If a lawnmower came in aqua with stenciled bags for the clippings, I'd buy it without even thinking twice.  But I digress. And so early in the post, too!)

A friend gave me this cute little fan. He said it was just sitting in a box in his garage and he thought he'd give it to someone who would appreciate it. 

Moi. 

At the time he gave it to me, it worked. Very well, in fact. But the cord was in bad shape so I got all ambitious and decided to give it a new cord. 

But when I opened it up, I quickly realized that it was beyond my DIY skills. I mean, have you ever seen anything like that? It's not like rewiring a lamp, that's for sure. So I removed all the guts. I felt great remorse for disemboweling this poor fan. I'd turned it into something completely non-funcional. It seemed slightly criminal.
But hey, it was still cute. Why not make it even cuter?

 In fact, why not make it so dang cute that most men just couldn't take it?

 "Girly Industrial" is a real style, right?

If not, I might have just invented it. (And now I have to go switch the base around. I didn't realize until I saw these pictures that I'd put it on backwards!)
Thanks for reading!