I love lamp.
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craftgrrlAbout 15 years ago, I bought a cheap paper lamp, kind of like this one. Eventually I knocked it over and ripped the paper shade, natch. I'm a notorious penny-pincher and hate throwing useful things out, besides, so I bought some rice paper and recovered it. But I did kind of a lazy job, plus I knocked it over within a week and ripped it again, anyway.
I've been cooking up a plan to make a chandelier with paper circles, so I decided to give this lamp a re-do in a similar style to see if it would work, and here is the result. I used a utility knife and sandpaper to scrape the glue from the lampshade off the metal parts. Then I used a circular punch on vellum paper (YESSSSS THAT PACKAGE OF VELLUM I BOUGHT AT A YARD SALE TEN YEARS AGO FINALLY CAME IN HANDY!), poked holes in each circle with a pin, and strung them together with jump rings. It was kind of slow going, but I learned some tips for my future chandelier, and I knocked out half of a season of Degrassi Junior High, so. Everyone wins! I think it looks pretty cute.
I've been cooking up a plan to make a chandelier with paper circles, so I decided to give this lamp a re-do in a similar style to see if it would work, and here is the result. I used a utility knife and sandpaper to scrape the glue from the lampshade off the metal parts. Then I used a circular punch on vellum paper (YESSSSS THAT PACKAGE OF VELLUM I BOUGHT AT A YARD SALE TEN YEARS AGO FINALLY CAME IN HANDY!), poked holes in each circle with a pin, and strung them together with jump rings. It was kind of slow going, but I learned some tips for my future chandelier, and I knocked out half of a season of Degrassi Junior High, so. Everyone wins! I think it looks pretty cute.
