Ruffle lamp shade makeover tutorial

When I was pulling things together to decorate my mom’s master bedroom that you can see here

(if you missed that post)

I wanted to find a pretty feminine “French” looking lamp so I went shopping 🙂

Of course I didn’t want to spend a ton of money (as usual)

I came across this silver mercury looking base at Target

I knew this was it and for only $20 bucks too!

I tried on different lamp shades and I found this one with Grey stripes top and bottom but…

I thought it might look a bit too modern for mom’s room

I bought it anyway thinking I could add a little sumpin sumpin to it

I had some lightweight fabric left over from an Ikea curtain

I decided to make little flower ruffles to cover the lamp shade and make it more feminine.

I cut a bunch of 2 – 2 1/2″ circles

I kind of folded the center of each circle and added a little hot glue to hold it together

Then added another little dab of hot glue and stuck it on the top silver stripe

I hot glued a bunch of them right next to each other…over and over

Once the top stripe was covered with RUFFLES…I decided that was a perfect amount and decided

NOT to cover the whole lamp shade.

Less is More

You can see this little cutie pa-tootie sitting on mom’s newly chalk painted dresser

Ignore the checkerboard edged rug..it will be replaced soon 🙂

Its the little details that pull a room together don’t you think?

Next up- More on the little details 🙂

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