A New Lamp

Ch...Ch...Ch....Ch...Changes

Today, I'm showing off three things....

1. the new lamp I recently was sent by Lamps.com

2. a glimpse at my new wall color in the living room

3. the mercury glass pumpkins I picked up at Big Lots way before Halloween

The pumpkins were suppose to be in my decor this Halloween...but of course the 

painting of the living room prevented that from happening so I am only now enjoying them.

So first the lamp....

Lamps.com contacted me a couple of months ago asking if I'd like

to review one of their lamps. They kindly let me pick which one I wanted.

I went with this HGTV pale green smoke glass lamp.

The color is scrumptious. 

I could just imagine it surrounded by seashells and summer time trinkets.

But it's fall now...and it's awfully good surrounded by mercury glass pumpkins too!

Lamps.com has such a huge assortment of great lamps.

It was very hard for me to choose just one.

They offer free shipping which is super important to me.

It came super fast and was packed very well.

I'll definitely order from them again.

I'm so glad I chose this lamp....but here are other lamps from Lamps.com I fell in love with.

Of course I loved this one, that is no surprise.

I'd love to try a pair of these on my sideboard.

So, I went with the HGTV green glass lamp because it reminded me of sea glass.

I'd gotten it thinking it would be going in my bedroom.

But now that its in the living room. 

I'm really loving it here, especially since I painted the walls.

I do love the modern vibe this lamps provides in this corner.

The room needed that.

Of course the gourd shape of it mimics the pumpkins surrounding it.

So about the wall color...it's Sherwin Williams Shoji White.

I love it. It changes color throughout the day.

Sometimes it looks bright white and sometimes it looks ecru...to beige....to greige.

It's a wonderful white. 

I'm so glad I chose it.

The rest of the room is still a mess. I'll show more of it soon.

Here's a few more shots of the pumpkins.

Oh...I set the lamp up on a few books to make it taller.

I often do this with my lamps. 

It just needed a little boost. 

The shade is kind of burlap like with little sparkly flecks in it. Very nice.

Here's what that area of the room looked like before.

What a difference new wall color and a new lamp make!

I thought I loved that lamp above but now it just seems too tall and fussy.

And the wall color...oh how I loved it at one time too.

But isn't this WAY better?

Thanks Lamps.com...that lamp just changed everything!

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Lampshade Jewelry

aka: Fun with Magnets and Stuff

Remember last month when I made this....

see post here

Well, I'm finally back with the tutorial on how I created that shade.

There is no big secret to covering a lampshade in burlap.

In this case, I tore off the fabric that covered this shade but left the lining.

I've found with burlap shades...you need the lining or you can see right through the shade.

I cut the burlap to the width and length of the shade and simply hot glued 

it to the wire frame.

I covered the edge with gimp and now the shade was ready for embellishment.

I promised I'd tell how I achieved the button tufted affect of this shade.

This shade's structure has metal wire running up and down in two spots on each long side

and one on each short side.

It's an oval shaped shade.

I already knew I was going to use this shade for an embellishment idea I had

and in experimenting I discovered the tufted affect.

I wanted to be able to change the look of this lampshade.

I didn't want it to always look the same, though.

So to do this...I used magnets hot glued to the back of my buttons.

Here I've gathered up some supplies.

Buttons, flowers, jewelry odds and ends and magnets.

Earlier in the summer I'd made this huge adornment for another lamp.

It's hard to get a good photo since this lamp sits in front of a window.

Here you can see it better.

The living room is a mess with projects strewn about.

The large pink flower really adds whimsy to this lamp and shade.

For this flower I cut the stem off.

I had to hot glue the layers of flower back together to keep the flower from coming apart after removing the stem.

I then hot glued a rhinestone button in the center of the flower.

I had to use large magnets I found at Lowe's for this flower since it's large.

One magnet glued to the back of the flower and one magnet goes on the inside of the shade.

If you get tired of this look...switch it out with something else!

You can have a different look with each season.

Or for that matter....each day!

I liked this so much...I decided to do some embellishing on my burlap shade that I made.

The first look was this. Achieved with six buttons placed horizontally around the shade.

I sewed with embroidery thread back and forth in the button holes before glueing to the magnet so they would look sewn on. The magnets pulling the fabric to the metal gave the tufted affect.

After that I was hooked...I created several pieces of jewelry in a very short time.

I found a large package of magnets at Walmart the other night and this little package

of flowers at Michaels. I couldn't resist those flowers.

Here are my other looks created with magnets and hot glue.

This one a burlap bow with crystal prism and rhinestones.

White burlap flowers give it another look.

A large wood button with gathered burlap and rhinestone makes another embellishment.

I was really on a roll, now.

This is my favorite...it's very much my style.

But not very fall like so will most likely not make an appearance again till spring here 

at my cottage.

These of course can move around in any configuration or get moved from lamp to lamp in my home

or they could end up on my refrigerator!

This is a really fun and easy project...I hope you give it a try.

I'm thinking I need to do some scary embellishments for Halloween.

Which version of this of this lampshade do you like best?

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