Love at First Light...

My inspiration for crafting has been low as of late. I feel as though I have a house that is never clean and there is always a meal to be cooked and a run to be ran. Today however, I had a surge of motivation and inspiration. I cleaned my house! I mean I deep cleaned and when I have a clean house I want to do pretty things to it. That is when I decided that today during nap time I was going to make a lamp that I have been eyeballing for a while. The lamp has been created and recreated many times over by many bloggers and DIYer's but I found my source of inspiration here at Mama Says Sew.


I headed down to my local thrift shop in hopes of finding a cheap lamp ... I was in luck. I got a little ahead of myself and started spray painting it before I took a before picture sorry. Also since I wanted to make it a thrifty project since funds are low I used good old yellow spray paint (that I already owned). I really need to set a design code for my house but I don't know how. Am I going for modern, or farmhouse cute...? I don't know.

materials....
1 old lamp
glue gun and about 10 sticks
white burlap... (I got it on sale for 2.48 a yard)
spray paint

Check out my killer steal of a deal ten dollar thrift store lamp. It's an average run of the mill brass lamp that everyone had.... Well get ready because it's about to become so lovely...

I took my ugly brass base to the garage and painted the baby up...

 Two coats later....

 This is the ugly grimy shade that still had the nasty plastic on it with an even nastier film of grossness covering it. I cut it off. (Side note... Cole is proofing this for me right now and I just got in  big trouble for spraypainting right on the cement. Make sure you spray on plastic because now I have to find a way to remove spray paint from my garage floor. Personally I think it makes the garage more beautiful.)

 The Before Lamp Shade....

 I covered it in the white burlap. Now other sites have you measure and iron and keep tidy. I however as you have already figured out love instant gratification and I have very little patience so I eye balled it all and it turned out OK.

 Then I cut strips longer than the shade so I could squiggle them down the shade and stuck them on with a thin line of hot glue. God I love glue guns...

 There is a peek at all the strips on the floor before I folded them in half and glued them on.

 This is a "I'm half way done and sipping coffee break." Oh and did I tell you that I finished this whole thing during nap time....! I know, right!?

 The lamp shade after... Now get ready for the marriage of the base and shade it's gonna be great...!

Here she is... I am really in love. It amazes me how easy you can transform the blah to beautiful. I wish I had more of an eye for it. Then again if I could find the beauty in every piece of trash I came upon I would be broke.

 Kinda love the yellow too... And when I don't I can just re-spray it...

 She's glowing....

 OK so I don't love the picture behind her. So tomorrow I might take the picture down and perhaps create something more linear and less demanding of visual attention. She steals the show though I know.

OK.. Now go do this because it was too easy and too pretty not too. Unless you want to buy it then you can because it's an Anthro lamp. which costs around $80 bucks and that's just the shade...