From Skirt to Lampshade...to Lampshade!

 Isn't this skirt cute?

There's three different tiers of green taffeta-like silk

and it probably looked absolutely adorable

on some sweet little girl!

But, alas, it just wasn't meant to stay a skirt forever!

A friend found this at the thrift store

and gave it to me wondering if I could use it.

She had thought of making it into an apron. 

Cute idea...but I was thinking it would make a great

ruffled pillow for my youngest daughter's room 

(I tend to always think "pillow"!)

First, I had to ask my daughter if she liked it.

SHE DID!

I asked what she thought we could do with it

and she said...

LAMPSHADE!

 Don't you love it when your kids come up with

great creative ideas!

LET'S GO FOR IT!

Enter this hanging shade.

Cute, but it had been like this for 4 years. 

Time for a change!

Out comes the good old (and I really mean OLD)

glue gun!

VOILA!

but...

Something wasn't right!

 (Isn't Millie cute?)

The shade looked great but we didn't like it

against the green roman shade.

OOPS!

So since it's easier to change out the hanging

lamp shade than to remake the roman shade...

We went to PLAN B!

Enter lamp shade #2.

Now, I love this shade.  It used to be

one of my shirts!!!

No kidding!

And I will definitely be using this shade on another lamp.

But my daughter wanted to use the "skirt shade"

so we persevered!

So this black lamp base...

(which had already been painted once before)

Became this...

 which sits here...

And we have a Happy 13yr old!

Believe it or not the lamp base is

"watermelon" gloss pink by Krylon

where as the DREAM is

"pumpkin orange" gloss by Krylon.

(This photo doesn't do the colors justice.)

NOTE:

This room is soon to be under construction

because said 13yr old doesn't want pink

walls anymore!  I think I might cry!

So there will be a full room reveal

sometime in the not too distant future!

Have a Creatively Blessed Day!

Linking to:

Fabric Fun Thursday at Cheap Chic Home