Zebra Lampshade

Hello there,

I have been working on a few rooms in the house

that need a little updating, and as I was working on the

guestroom, I sewed new pillows from old

clothes, put them on the bed, put up new curtains, and

thought I was done.

On the end table was a clear bubbled glass lamp with an older

lampshade, it matched, I thought it looks good.

Sat back on the chair in the room, and kept on thinking,

something needs to be changed.

I changed the picture above the bed, added

 dimensional angels blowing horns and sat again and thought

it needs something else.

Then it occurred to me the lamp was still the 

shabby Victorian look and needed to be updated,

so here is what I did.

It needed lightened,

so I chose the Cream Glitter Zebra CS.

I needed 4 sheets to cover the lampshade.

I drew the edges of the shade on the paper, 2 12x12 sheets glued together.

Cut out the shapes.

Then with a glue gun, glued the Zebra CS to the lamp shade.

I did have to do some trimming with scissors to 

make it lay flat.

Here is the covered lampshade.

I then glued from the dress I used to make the cheetah pillows from,
the tie from the back of the dress.
I glued it to the bottom edge of the lamp shade.

I then added dew drops to the top and bottom edge of the lamp.
I alternated colors and shapes.

Here is the lamp sitting on the end table in the corner of the room.

These are shots of the lamp close up, with the dew drops glued on.

The lamp with all the accessories.

The room is so much more complete!
The lamp shade needed to have less of a pattern and color to it
to make the room feel good.

Just a few photos from the guest room again.

The pillows made from a dress and a skirt.

So inviting!

Have a great day!

Ciao,

Robin

Update in the Guest Room

Hello today!

I need to share just a little update on the Guest Room.

I posted it sometime back with photos,

but wasn't really feeling like the room was finished,

and so I have sat in the chair in the corner

of the room trying to decide what this room really needed.

It finally came to me that I need to let go of the busy-ness of the room.

The lamp on the end table was one,

it just needed to have the pattern go away, and 

have a more updated look.

And....

I had purchased some clothes,

a dress and a skirt that I wanted to use the fabric from

to recover the pillows on the bed.

Here are is the new updated room.

This room for years was just the storage room.  

I dumped everything I didn't know what to do with in here.

It did have a sofa couch and a chair, but 

seriously it was never used.

Our son in law found a fun door

with glass and pantry on it in a dumpster, and we 

brought it home, and decided that the only door it fit on in the

dinning room was the one to the guest room.

So in it went, a door with glass,

so...

this motivated me to give the room a purpose!

I often thought a butlers pantry would be great,

but the kids all complain that there wasn't any place to sleep

when they came, and we booted them out to the

camp trailer.  For tall people that really didn't work

so the guest room became real.

Here it is with a new picture above the bed,

antique windows, my mother's real looking peonies in a vase,

and the new pillows I just sewed.

It does seem more cozy in here now.

I do love the addition of the pillows to the bed.

They were here, just covered in different fabric.

The Cheetah fabric pillows were a dress,

and I just cut down the front of the dress leaving the

buttons on the pillows as an accent to the pillow.

And it is easy to take off and wash.

The plaid pillow was a skirt.

And the bow on the 4th pillow is again from the cheetah dress.

I also was given some old jewelry, and

I added this gold broach to the pillow on top of the 

cheetah tie as part of the pillow.

The room now feels so much more complete, and 

inviting.  So glad I finally did this.

Have a fun day.

Please comment and let me know what you think.

I wonder am I sending this out to anyone?

Is anyone reading this?

Ciao,

Robin