When OttLite emailed and asked if I'd be interested in getting a free lamp to review, I couldn't answer their email fast enough.  Yeesssss!

Here is my old lamp.  I'd been really happy when I got it because it had an outlet in the base AND a phone jack.  The neck was adjustable, too, which was nice.  But I haven't had a land line phone for years and you couldn't adjust the neck after the light had been on because the metal got SO HOT.  I was ready for an upgrade.

This is the bad boy I selected, the Craft Caddy Lamp.  One big plus is the obvious *adjustability* of the light.  In fact, you can completely hide the lamp in the base (see right side photo).  All three joints (base, middle, and lamp head) rotate so you can get the light exactly where you want it.

Then there are the cubbies, which come right out of the base so you can take your supplies somewhere else if you want.  The cubbies even have non-slip pads on their bases.  There is a carry handle that pops up and you can wrap the electical cord in the channel around the base when you're moving or storing the lamp.  There's a big easy-to-press button on the front to turn it on and an extra electrical outlet on the back of the lamp.

The way our apartment is arranged, the only light source I have is right behind my head, so any work I want to do on my desk is in the shade of my noggin.  My old lamp illuminated a small area of the desk because it was short, so I'd have to move it around if I needed light somewhere other than right under it.

The Craft Caddy is great because the neck is super tall so it lights up my entire desktop AND I can angle the lamp head so I'm not getting any light right in my eyes.  The light is a nice color-balanced bright white.  I use it when I read, write, and cut things with my Exacto knife.  When I did my normal color correction stuff on the photos of my desk in PhotoShop, they didn't change at all.

One complaint is the caddy bit.  For how I use it, I would have liked a bunch of pen/pencil-cup-tall caddies.  I'm having a hard time finding medium-tall things to put in there.  You can't put small things in the cubbies because you can't dump them out because all three compartments are connected.  I *have* filled up the middle caddy on the left entirely with lip gloss, so  I'm sure I'll find things to put in the rest of them eventually.

My other complaint is that it would have been nice to have the outlet on the front of the lamp.  Or give the lamp a lazy susan bottom so you could spin it to get at the outlet easier.  This is just me being SUPER lazy, but still, it would be nice to charge my phone on my desk without groping around the back of the lamp to plug in my charger.

Overall, I'm very happy with the lamp and the illumination it provides is perfect.  The lamp has made my desk a useable space day or night and has made it easier for me to do some of my fiddle-ier projects (I used to take things into the bathroom when I needed BRIGHT light).  Thank you, OttLight!