Happy Monday ! Today's post is a very easy but VERY pretty one !
Enjoy !
While unpacking some boxes after the move I noticed that one of our lamp shades had broken. Disappointed but not heart broken as I was never "in love" with the lamp in the first place, I decided to attempt recovering the shade before throwing it out. Pat on the back for this one as it turned out better than I expected ! Don't you love when this happens ?
I bought this huge pack of coffee filters while shopping at this amazing liquidation store just a ways out of town. Not because I drink coffee (I'm a tea & latte gal) but because I thought I could use them for some sort of craft around the house, oh and because I couldn't pass up a 4 dollar deal!
I found this picture on Pinterest and fell in love with the shade. Dun dun dun ! I'm not a sewer (yet..) so it was out of the question for me to attempt the sewing on this one. Instead, I decided to put the filters to good use on my broken shade, as I though it would give it a similar "fluff" effect.
After finishing this project, I was excited and proud, so I decided to sent it's picture to a couple of friends. Their response: "Don't you just love Pinterest for that stuff?"
What? Huh? What ?!? You mean, I wasn't the genius one to think of this first ?
Shoot. Oh Pinterest, you seriously get me every time don't you ?
After hearing this, I immediately jumped on Pinterest and noticed that they were all over the site ! Amazing ! I really do need to get back to being addicted to that site, or maybe it's best not too, I feel smarted thinking I thought of these "projects" by myself ! :)
Here are my steps :
From there you just keep gluing the filters until the lamp is covered. Warning : This project takes about 2 hours (with a few breaks to play cars & trains with C.A.P), it also takes A LOT of glue sticks (I used about 22 mini glue sticks, but come on, it's so worth it !)
As you can see I added another last laying of filters to the top of the shade so the original shade was completely covered.
That's it !
You're done, and this is what your finished new and improved lamp looks like !
Click HERE for the DIY table runner seen in first picture
Don't you just want to stare at it all day? No? Just me?
Thanks so much for dropping in today !
Come back Wednesday for another visit.
Bye.Cya.
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