Other uses for lampshades : part 307

Answer : A laundry basket for the In-house photographers room

Other uses for lampshades : part 306

Last Halloween , the in-house photographer dressed up as a cupcake
One of my accumulated  lampshades  became the paper case .




Ques: So then what do you do with a  lightshade that had  the wire support mechanism  removed
as it's been worn as a cup cake ?


Answer:  Firstly, Weave a base using piping cord.

Question : Then what do you do with it ?

Answer : Come back  to Jaboopee's  on Monday to find out  !

lampSHAPES revealed

As promised, here are the photos of some of the lamps I made last year ,

I love how attaching different lamps to each other results in this torso/ dress shape

so I carried that through ....for the next one

The shape here is real dress size ....I used a silver boob tube to cover the top lamp shape

and a lace skirt, lined with purple satin with a ra ra skirt trim ...

[all material found/recycled.]

Then carrying that body shape further this is 3 lampshades joined together and embellished with this gorgeous floral headpiece i bought of an amazingly dressed woman in the craft market in newmarket square ( dee, your her number 1 fan, what's her name? )

I've also added some ivy , glass chandelier globs and recycled lamp trim.

..and seeing as i'm in the bedroom....here's a little glimpse of the gold bed

{I'll be getting my in house photographer to take some better photos for me.}

and starting on this seasons models .

lampSHAPES

There's something about this time of year that makes a person take out all the lampshades they've been storing

these photos are from this time last year ...

I'll show you what lampshapes resulted tomorrow.

crochet lampshade : a post of its own

Seeing as I'm so busy in the studio just now and you were

so complementary about my crochet lampshade ,

I thought i'd give it a post of its own.

In fact, my first ever post as a blogger was about that very lampshade

if you'd like to see that click here .

I'm also trying to suss out how to make photos appear bigger and

this is to experiment with that ....

if your only seeing half a picture then i've not got it right yet!

edit: oops so that didn't work

if you click on image you can see it in full

but heres the smaller image which blogger seems to only allow ,

when i have a bit more time i'm going to work out how to do this

properly

Side project: crochet lampshade

My first blog post.
I like to make things, and this blog is to be a record of that.

These 4 photos are the 'during' process of making the crochet lampshade
The crochet squares came from  a car boot sale ,
I love it that someones unfinished work is getting a new life .

and here are photos of the finished piece ,
along with a detailed shot.













































































And the lovely shadows it casts when lit.