I was bored tonight so I decided to play around in Blender and try to make a lamp with an environment. I haven't done anything in Blender in months, and even then I was at newbie level, so I'm quite happy with the results.
There's some obvious problems, though. The textures on the lamp aren't quite good, but I couldn't find anything more suitable at the site I was using. Also, the trunk of the lamp looks separated from the base, which I couldn't get the lighting set to make it look better. Also, some vertices are really apparant in the base.
Other than that, I thought it turned out well for having very little experience with the program.