Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Add life to an old lamp shade


As I was moving things around in my house today, I realized that I have moved the same lamp over and over because I didn't love it.  I decided to add some fun to the old lamp.  My sister gave it to me years ago and for some reason I have never given it away.  I had some fabric left over from a recent project and decided to add a flower to the shade.  If you don't have extra fabric, they sell small fabric squares used for quilting that are only a few dollars each.  I free handed an imperfect flower with a sharpie and cut it out.
Next I used a different fabric and traced around this flower.  When I went to cut it out, I just made sure to cut it a little bit smaller.
I used one of my kids cups to trace a round circle for the center but decided it needed more.  I had bought a newspaper print flower for another project and used it for the center of the flower.
Next I hot glued the largest flower on, then layering the other fabrics on top.  I realize it's not a perfect flower but a friend told me, nothing hand-made is perfect.


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