It's been a while since I've been back to visit the wonderfully scary world of blogging. Sorry I've been sucked into sewing and crafting around my house all summer. Now that I'm back in school my crafting time has become some-what limited so I have to live vicariously through other crafters in the world.
As you might remember I also get sidetracked in any lighting section I find myself near so I can easily combine crafting and lamps. (Plus I have a class project where I get to make one myself... BONUS!) So here are some of the really cool and interesting craft ideas I found for remaking lampshades.
Below is a lamp shade idea from Jamie that she posted on Ucreate. She took this plain white lampshade in her daughters room and gave it the fun fresh look below.
To do this she made lots of fabric circles and hot glued them to the lamp overlapping them. To make sure she didn't have any gaps at the top and bottom of the shade she used inverted half circles along the edge.
This is a really cool idea but personally I don't think I could stand to cut out that many fabric circle. I would probably go a smidge bit more crazy after the first 10 circles because my circles would turn out to be more oval than circles.
Here is another one of those lamp transformations that look really expensive but really isn't all that bad to do yourself if you have some patience. I don't all the time but I might have to stock up on patience for this craft because I really fascinated by the texture it gets in the end.
The Crafty Texas Girls (I had to bring a little country to this post didn't I?) wanted to make over the perfectly nice but no longer suitable lamps for a bedroom. They took this burgundy lamp shade and:
1. took off all the trim and bead work,
2. covered it with muslin
3. made strips of ruffled muslin
4. glued the strips on to the lamp shade
And tada she ended up with a totally ruffled lampshade. It's hard to see in this picture but they left the edges of the ruffles raw so that it has that slight rustic feel without making it feel inexpensive.
Here is an interesting way to destroy those menacing school globes that gave me nightmares. Why would a globe give me nightmares... I have terrible directional skill so these silly globes taunted me by going round and round like my brain every time I get lost in my own town.
This lamp on Pinterest split the globe in half to create two separate hanging lamps. These lamps no doubt belong to someone who likes to travel or loves maps.
It makes me wonder what else I can destroy from my nightmares and make something I truly enjoy?
Hmmmm...
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