I'm not sure whether you will remember me saying last week that I was working on a re-purposed lamp for our screened in porch or not....
Well, I'm happy to report today that the re-purposed lamp is now finished!
It is now hanging, pretty as can be, from a rafter of our screened in porch.
Here's how I did it:
I made my re-purposed lamp from an old lamp shade that I had stripped the old fabric off of.
I then attached an old thrift store lamp upside down to the lamp shade frame, right in the center where a finial would've been screwed on.
This was done with torn strips of white t-towel fabric that where wrapped around the base of the re-purposed lamp and then wrapped again to the inside frame of the shade.
Next I wrapped the top and the bottom of the shades frame with the torn white t-towel fabric and then covered the lamps base with a white doily, just to add a little prettiness to it.
To decorate the shades frame Tim downloaded a couple of vintage seed packet prints I had found on Pinterest for me.
I attached them, along with a tiny bouquet of periwinkle, to the frame.
Then lastly, I tied three long t-towel strips to the top of the frame for hanging.
Refer back to photo #2.
Here is a view of it hanging in our porch.
As you can see I really went for bright and cheerful colours in there!
I will show you more of my budget porch re-do in the next few days.
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For those of you who read my post from yesterday, the measuring sticks that I had found in my basement were used in the past by lumberjacks to measure the width of a tree in the forest before they cut it to be sure it was legal size.
I am told they now have a computerized way of measuring.
That figures!
I'm off now to see what you are busying yourself with today and then to see if I can't find a party or two to join!
Partying Here:
