One Project at a Time

I finally got around to doing a project this weekend, one that I had in mind for a few weeks now, ever since I saw this at Hobby Lobby. . .

My insprition! Here's another one, the shade and base a slightly different shape (I took these with the camera on my phone) . . .

I have 3 lamps I bought that came in a set but the shades were boring old white! I've been wanting to do something with them for a while. I forgot to take a before picture so I found one from a few months ago when I was showing pics of my newly decorating living room and kitchen . . .

The lamp I was redoing was the tall one over in the corner on the left, but notice I have a smaller one on the side table too (I'll be redoing that one soon, but not exactly the same) . . .

So, while at Hobby Lobby that same day I bought some leopard print material and some trim, then I first cut a template using some large brown paper I have on a roll, by laying the lamp shade on it and rolling it round as I followed the outside edges with a pencil . . .

next I cut out the material using the template, adding a little for overlap . . .

and then the tricky part, I chose to use spray adhesive to stick the material to the shade... a rather tricky and sticky thing to do, but eventually I had this. . .

next for some trim,


and voila. . .

my Hob Lob inspired lamp :-) Not quite finished because I'd like more trim for the top which I hope to get today. I just guest at the amount I needed (probably bought a yard) and it fit exactly around the bottom not even having to trim a bit off!

I don't think the lamp will stay in that place, I have ideas to move a few things around - I'll share them with you when I do. SO, what have you been up to this weekend?

I'm joining Susan at Between Naps on the Porch today for Met Monday. Hop on over to see what everyone else has been up to.