Sorry It has been
SOOO long since I posted anything...I have been so busy! Memorial Weekend, My 13th wedding anniversary, and my Mom is on Vacation so i've been doing stuff with her!!! Busy Busy for the past couple weeks!!! BUT...I have been working on some things...
I LOVE garage saleing! The Hubby and I went to a few this past weekend and....JACKPOT!!!! I SCORED!!! Here is what I found...
WORKING lamp for...$5.00
large mirror with gold frame...hehe!...$8.00
wood desk(drawer pulls out for keyboard)...$8.00
Let the Makeover Begin!!!!!
2 cans of this...
apply according to the directions....
I took out the drawer and painted the "face" of the drawer...
painted the legs!!!
Hubby "manning" the spray paint can...LOL!! He is such a good spray painter!!hehe!
All done and dried...It looks so much nicer now!!YIPPEE!!!
Next i found this really cool spray paint(I forgot to get a picture...oops!)
It's called Rust-Oleum Multicolor Textured in Autumn Brown
close up of it wet....
finished...and hung...
close up of the paint dried...quite a bit better than the gold...hmmmm???
Hubby spray painting the base of the lamp in the same black as the desk...he's such a good husband!!hehe!!
next he sprayed the textured brown(same as the paint used for the mirror)over top the black on the base of the lamp...Lookin pretty sweet so far!!!
onto this boring lampshade....I see ruffles in this lampshades near future...=)
a WHOLE pile of ruffles...found this LARGE square of fabric that had this ruffle border all the way around it...I cut it off!!!hehe!!
Love the colors in this fabric!!!
I used this...it is my friend...I love it so...=)
so...actually first I cut a long rectangle and made a binding strip out of it...then glued it to the very top of the shade...like this...
to finish it off...
I folded this under using hot glue...
then hot glued that down to make a clean finished edge...
then to start with all the fun part...ruffles!! put a string of glue where you want the ruffle to start....
like this...
then keep going in the same manner...till you have 1 full row...since my ruffle was one LOOONG piece, once I got back to where I started(I cut it leaving about 1/4") i then finished it off in the same manner I finished with the binding piece on the top of the shade and glued it down...next ruffle please...etc. etc....
woohooo...half way there...should look something like this....
ALL finished!!!! Put shade back on my completely dried lamp base...and here you have it..an elegant ruffly lamp!! Oh...I...LIKE!!!!
Let's put it all together now......
VOILA!!!
another shot...this is my entryway....Looks good huh?!
k...let's do a budget breakdown...
Table...$8.00
Lamp...$5.00
Mirror...$8.00
Ruffle Fabric...$3.00
(that was for the whole piece...I only used the border)
2 cans black spray paint...$4.35/pc x 2 = $8.70
1 can Rust-Oleum Textured brown paint $6.19 on sale
drum role please.....
Grand
Total
Is...
$38.89
WOW!! WHATTA BARGAIN!!!
so...tell me...how did I do????
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