We had another DIY weekend at the Rehkopf house this weekend. While Brooks worked on his garage remodel, I whipped up this :
I am so excited with how it turned out!!!
I found this super cute lamp at Pottery Barn Kids but there were a couple of promlems with it: (1) The color was not right and (2) $160 bucks for a lamp base and shade? SERIOIUSLY? Not gonna happen...
One of my fave blogs, Little Miss Momma recently had a FAB tutorial on a SUPER CUTE Anthropologie inspired necklace. I made one and totally loved it.
{I had to crop my beautiful sisters out of this photo because they were both making hysterical faces. They would have killed me}
Super cute right? Well, I have also use those same pom poms for head bands for my girls and they also look fab. So I figured, why not use these adorable little pom poms for my lamp shade? That way I could make my lamp to MY specs and for a fraction of the $160 price tag.
So here is what I used:
lamp base
lamp shade
hot glue
1-1.5 yards of your fav color stretch cotton
scissors
felt
Follow Ashley's tutorial on how to make a fabric Pom Pom. Make as many as you think you will need depending on the size of your lamp shade. I made mine about 2 inches in diameter (I traced a Keurig K-cup for my circle). I didn't make really full pom poms and it worked great because with all the pom poms all over the shade it really doesn't make a difference! I used about 5 circles on each pom pom.
I used this hideous green lamp that I have had in Emme's closet since she was born. I spray painted it white to match her sweet room.
I purchased a lamp shade for $6.99 from Target to fit my lamp base.
Then I used hot glue to glue all the pom poms to my shade until it was completely covered. You really cant mess this up because its so easy.
I really liked the color I used. The pom poms worked perfectly!!
I absolutely LOVE the finished product and cant wait to use it in Emme's room!!
Total Cost for this beauty:
Base- $0 (Re-purposed)
Shade- $6.99
Fabric- $4
Total: $11
So while this project did take me 2 nights to complete, it was SUPER easy and saved me a solid $149. TOTALLY worth it!!!
Blessings,
15 comments:
Love your blog! That lamp is SO SO cute!! It would be great if you came and linked some of your ideas to Lovely Little Snippets!
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I really do love it! My daughter's lamp is currently ghetto! http://bellesbazaar-heather.blogspot.com/
Holy cow girl! this is the cutest lamp in all the world! What a great idea to put the pom poms on a lamp! I must try this!!! I am going to share on facebook now :) Beautiful blog and you are stunning! xoxo, ashley
what a great idea!!! this is super cute! i could do this for the kiddos room or in our master for my side of the bed!!! LOVE IT. great job.
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How cute!!!!. Came here from Facebook. I made Ashley's necklace a while back and people LOVED it!!!.
What a cute idea to use these on the lamp shade :)
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Love this!! A little hot glue and patients sure does go a long way! I pinned a picture on pinterest under DIY projects... if you haven't gone on pinterest you should its super addicting- great recipes, projects, and just random pictures! Love u girl!
-Shannon
I meant a pinned a picture of your lamp : )
This is AWESOME!! Found you via Little Miss Momma... I am for sure wanting one for my little girl too! So Cute!
xoxo jacinda
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Cute! Can you do a post on how to make the necklace? I'm sad I missed out on necklace night now........
love it!!!
Adorbs!! I made the necklace too awhile back and I was actually thinking of doing this on a lamp as well but haven't gotten around to it. Now seeing yours I'm definitely going to make one too!! Found you via Little Miss Momma...looking forward to following you :)
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Great job Marisa! You rocked that lamp. Lots of mommies are going to copy this!
AAAHHH, I love, LOVE this! I am so into the fabric flowers right now, in part because you can use them in so many ways. Great job, mama!
Happy to be your newest follower,
Adrianne
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Your lamp turned out so cute! We are going to redo our daughters bedroom in purple and I was trying to decide what to do with her lamp. I may just try this. Great job!
I love this, it's beautiful! *runs off to pin it*
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