Frilly Lamp
You ever get in a situation where you end up in a place and then you feel obligated to stay because you’ve already committed? That’s how I felt when I found this lamp. I was in a massive yard sale, like OVERWHELMINGLY large. In an old abandon school..
But anywho. I bought this lamp for a dollar, and just went on the sheer unbidding gut feeling that it worked. It did, and here we are.
Not bad actually, but I have an addiction to spray paint and rose gold is life.
My first step could have been cut in half time wise had I actually just taken a minute and realized that there was ONE NUT keeping the whole middle section together. Yes Im yelling. Im impatient so I deserve it.
Had this middle section not been so easily separable I could have just taped around the edges and sprayed like so:
But after doing that I realized the middlel section (inside the lamp) was still silver and home girl dont roll like that. So I found the bottom nut, unscrewed and took it apart, and sprayed again. *Insert eye roll*
Then I put it back together, but let it dry first- I learned that by not letting it dry thoroughly (the first time) I had finger prints and wrinkles in the paint. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. And that’s the base.
There nice and frilly, just the way the good lord intended…Sorry bad joke, dont report me…*genuflects*
This shade was a pain in the butt. I thought it was going to be easy but NOPE. This is one piece of fabric ($4) not a bunch of ribbon which I think made it harder.
I started in the back and mod podge a section about 2 inches wide then laid down the fabric. It dries slow though so there is lag time. I also added a couple dib dabs of Gorilla Glue to the top and bottom about every inch just to make sure it was really stuck. I also realized it was getting very stuck…to me.
As I went around the sides I let the top and bottom dangle and then trimmed that up and glued it over.
I used paper clips to hold the fabric on over night to make sure it was completely dry and wouldn’t fall off.
And that’s about it, this one was relatively quick and easy! Here is the finished product, it makes the room very cozy in my opinion and only cost a few dollars!
