Day 201-ikea lamp to sculpture

Tonight I wanted to attempt to join the plaster cast head sculpture I made on January 30th

I started with my old basic ikea lamp and the front and back sections of my plaster doily sculpture...

take one old lamp from ikea

 the doily sculpture from day...

Ive joined the front and the back pieces of the sculpture to create not just a lamp, 

but a piece of art

I love it!!

The height of the lamp is actually at eye level, so the head is a little haunting...

 it adds a whole new meaning to "headlights"

 my camera does not do it justice

Craft out

xxoo

Day 200!!! hot polka lamp

So following on from yesterday I still can't decide what to do with the "Moet Lamp", so I went to another op shop at lunchtime today and bought another two lamp shades (small, simple shaped ones) I thought it might be better for me to try covering my first shade on an easy shape.

op shop hunting (I am going to cover the one on the left tonight)

 making a pattern piece of the lamp's shape

 pattern piece complete

 snip, snip, snip some happy polka dot fabric

 finish the edge neatly with my hot little brother overlocker

 pin inside out, and then stitch on the normal machine

 then "hello mr glue gun!"

 I glued the bottom first, and then snipped around the top to release the fabric tension

and then finally glued the top sections down

 now for the finishing touches...

contrasting blue?

 frilly moulin rouge?

 with a bow?

 moulin rouge, feathers and bling?

Craft out

xxoo

Day 199-Moet lamp or lamp revamp?

Yesterday I popped into a local op shop in my lunch break and found an old lamp shade. It has a great shape and I thought I would re-cover it. I was initially thinking polka dots with a contrast brocade trim around the edge.

Here is the original lamp

 I popped it onto the empty moet bottle to take a photo before hand

 and then thought it looked really cool attached to the moet bottle as a base

 so... do I continue as planned and re-cover the lamp shade? 

or

do I work out how to turn the moet bottle into the actual lamp and leave the shade as is??

let me know your thoughts??

Craft out!

xxoo

Day 192-come on baby light my slide

I have been planning this project for awhile now, so I am really excited to share it with you!

At the start of the year I was rummaging at a local trash and treasure market and came across three boxes filled with old slides. I was super excited and knew straight away I would make a lamp shade out of them. The slides are travel pics from all around the world, they look like a series of professional slides that might have been used for lectures or classes of some kind. Check out one of the boxes below, each of the little bundles wrapped separately are for a different country, with little hand written notes listing place/year. They are great!

 I purchased a plain lamp/lamp shade and took the fabric off the metal frame.

I decided to join the slides by punching holes in all four corners and then linking these with silver metal loops (from "Theo's Craft Supplies")

I had to make a little template out of cardboard to ensure the holes were always punched in the same spot 

(see the template at the bottom of this picture below)

 I was really glad I found these little metal loops, because initially I tried cutting pieces of wire and threading them thru the holes and twisting them with the pliers, this took forever and looked really messy!!

 one row complete, 9 more to go

 all the holes punched

 a close up of the joins

 the sheet of slides are attached, now to join this to the metal lamp shade

 I initially held the slides in place with some masking tape at the top all the way around, and then slowly attached the metal loops thru the top row of holes in the slides and then to the metal lamp frame.

I forgot to mention after I punched the holes in each of the slides I also bent each slide softly in the middle and rounded each of the cards so that they were all curved in one direction, that is how they sit nicely in the circular motion around the wire frame.

 I haven't worked out how to finish the top off yet, its too bright without anything on it. 

On the picture below I just cut out a piece of baking paper and placed some slides on top to see what it would look like.

 All the pictures on these slides are Australian travel shots, pictures from all over, they look like they are from the 6o's.

There are some really funny one's including a white guy in his 50's throwing a boomerang with a fag hanging out of his mouth!! ha ha ha!! 

 more politically incorrectness with the slides labeled

"immigrant picks fruit"

 It looks good on my bookshelf, as you can see still a little bright though... I need to work out how to finish off the top.

Well that was a big post!!!

I hope you enjoyed the project!

until tomorrow

Craft Out!