You light up my life!

My latest project has been the large guest bedroom. We started out with nothing in that room, and recently purchased black furnature. I had a lot of random stuff that didn't really match in there, but I love spray paint and I figured I could make some fun accents. Here is my first project.

I have had these lamps since Phil's college house. His mom bought them at an auction for $5 and they were originally gold. In our last house I painted them silver, but I didn't really like the way the silver looked.

After some inspiration from Pinterest here is what I did.

Before:

After:

First I started out by drawing faint pencil lines on the lampshade...In hind sight I might have used tape instead so that you didn't have to erase the pencil after you write on it.

I found a poem that I liked and wrote it out in Sharpie on the shade...I started at the top and wrote around the shade because I didn't want people to really get destracted by trying to read the poem in it's entirerty.

Then I made some flowers out of differnt fabrics with earthy tones and put some pretty jewel buttons in special places and glued the flowers on the shade, not worrying if I covered up words.

Here are each of the finished lampshades.

Finally I finished the project by spray painting the lamps black.

Here is the finished product in the room...but the room isn't close to complete yet!