Beautiful lamp! However the employee who wrote the directions for attaching the silver spikes needs to be removed. I finally found an old review on another website that gave the instructions.   The first two rows are all short. The third row is one long and then one short, every other one. The middle is all long spikes then the third from the bottom is every other one. The last two rows are short. I also didn't have enough long spikes and too many short ones.