Sharing Shadymont, My Mountain Cottage

I've had this small crackled lamp for several years, and the shade had gotten so dirty. See how dirty it is?? I carried this to my craft area in the basement for a makeover.  I wasn't sure what I would find to give it an update, but I had plenty of things in my "bag of stuff". In fact, this burlap ribbon was the exact width I needed. All I had to do was use the glue gun and glue it around the shade. I had to gather it at the top of the shade in a couple of places. The base of the lamp was a beige crackle finish, so I painted it a light aqua with acrylic craft paint. I think it makes a cute addition to this tabletop vignette.  It repeats the aqua of these vintage jars. I've had these sweet cupids for a very long time, and still love them. We all love old canning jars, don't we?? I like the lamp so much better with its new color base, and spiffy chevron shade. This project took just a few mi...

Quite some time back, I sewed a shade cover for my rooster lamp out of burlap and cotton trim.  I had quite a bit of the materials left over, and decided to use the scraps to recover this little lamp shade.  You can see that the shade has seen better days, maybe a little water damage. I gathered my supplies together, glue gun,  scissors, glue stick, burlap, and trim.   At first I tried wrapping some burlap garland around the shade, but it raveled too much, and didn't give the look I wanted, so I switched to burlap fabric.  I simply wrapped the burlap around the shade and cut accordingly, allowing enough fabric to fold over and glue down. I then placed the burlap on the shade at the seam area and ran a bead of hot glue on the shade, and attached the burlap.  Next, I folded the burlap over at the top and bottom of the shade and glued it in place, making little tucks in the burlap to adjust it to fit the shade.  Once the glue dried,...

I do love my rooster lamp with the toile shade.  You've seen it several times.  I decided to make a burlap cover for the shade.  First I took the shade off and traced around each section, across the length, and the width, onto paper.  I ended up with these two sizes of paper.  I folded the burlap and pinned the pattern onto it. and cut about an extra inch all the way around the pattern.  However, since I have finished this project, if I should do this again, I will add at least 2 inches all the way around. I stitched the pieces together, and placed the cover over the lamp.  As you can see, even with a piece of ribbon "pinned" on to the bottom, it was still a little small.   Light bulb moment!  I remembered all the burlap runners seen in blog land with the ruffles on the ends.   So this afternoon, I sewed a piece of eyelet lace all the way around the bottom, and used stitch witchery to attach a white grosgrain ribbon around th...