Hey Bloggosphere -
I am following up the last post with the project I created for my sister's Christmas present.
Backstory: My sister is pregnant and expecting a girl in February. This has lead to my brother-in-law remodeling a room and creating a nursery and my sister creating the design for the room. She found this nursery and is using it as the inspiration for the entire room.
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| Find it on my pinterest here. |
I fell in love with the whole idea of the nursery. I love, love, love black and white with pink. Damask print is one of my favorites (I have it on all of my curtains in my apartment - that my mom and I made).
The lamps were the distinguishing part of the nursery, but the "designer" of the nursery found them at TJ Maxx. So we knew we would never find the exact ones. This is when I got the idea to make my sister a lamp for Christmas.
The lamps appeared to have a shiny black base with a plain shade that had pink, black and white fabric cut into circles and stacked and sewn onto the shades. This was my project.
I started by going to a secondhand shop and finding a lamp base.
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| I found this and I liked the simple shape. . . but NOT the color |
I wanted to paint the base black and put silver glitter on top, just to add a girly touch :)
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| First I had to cover up the hoop and the base so I wouldn't make a mess. |
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| Here is the finished base after painting. |
I also ran to Walmart (gross. . . I know but I don't have many options in this small town), and found as many pink, black and white fabrics as I could find.
The next step was the most time-consuming part. I had to cut circles out of all the fabric. I started by making a circle out of hard card stock paper and placing that on the fabric and using a rotary cutter to cut out the circles. This was not working well. Luckily, when my sis and I were out shopping on Black Friday, I found a circle fabric cutter! And it was half-off :) That little cutter made my fabric-cutting go so much faster! I cut them in a few different sizes so I could stack them like this:
After stacking them I sewed them together.
Once the stacking was over, I wanted to (a) cover up the sewing and (b) add some glitz. So I found some big rhinestones to glue onto the fabric. I grabbed my glue gun for this!
Pretty!
After I had all the circles completed, all I had to do was glue the completed circles on the lamp shade.
TA-DAH!
(The lampshade was sitting on top of my floor lamp in my room)
I was super-excited to give it to my sister during our gift-exchange on Christmas Eve! And I do believe she loved it!
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| My big sis with her adorable baby-bump showing off her new lamp! |
There it is! The thing I've wanted to talk about forever but I had to keep secret so I wouldn't ruin the surprise for my big sis :)
I hope you all had the merriest of Christmas' and an amazing New Year!
Kelsey Jean
