Twine Wrapped Parisian Lamp

Good Morning everyone.

Have you ever bought something at a garage sale with the 

full intentions of redoing it into something special

and

then It. Sits. For. Years.?

And, I mean years....

I do this all the time and then... inspiration hits

and

I go to town on whatever it was I bought.

Inspriation finally hit for this not so pretty little lamp from eons ago...

This has sit in our garage collecting dust

and 

getting moved from one spot to another to get it out of the way.

And,

everytime I moved it I told myself - I am going to paint that soon.

Well, soon has come but I didn't paint it -

well, not entirely anyway.

Looks a little different - doesn't she.

I call her my Twine Wrapped Parisian Lamp...

She is so cute and proudly sits on my desk now.

This project really is quite simple.

But, as you know my projects have to be simple.

A little tweak here and a little tweak there and it's a whole new item

ready to use in a new space.

To make this little lamp:

First of all you will need a cast off lamp with a fairly simple base line

This one has a simple square base with some dips here and there

but,

nothing too hard to wrap with twine.

Then you will need:

Some twine - I only used that small ball but, there was only about a 1/2 inch left.

A glue gun and glue sticks.

I started by gluing the twine to the very base of the lamp 

and 

then wrapping it around the lamp 

gluing it ever so often to assure it not coming off

or 

having loose areas.

This is quite simple just time consuming.

I would stop for awhile and go do something else then come back.

This is just showing how it looks about halfway done.

Still wrapping and gluing.

And this is the finished base.

Now you could buy a new lampshade for it 

or 

even use whatever came with it if you like it.

I didn't like mine so it got a make over also.

I painted the shade with DIY white chalk paint first.

Then I did a "Parisian" stencil.

This particular graphic came from the topography fabric I got at Hobby Lobby.

I traced a couple of the images onto some tracing paper

then,

using black graphite paper I retraced it onto the lamp.

Then I went over it with a black magic marker.

Not difficult but, takes a few steps to get it done.

Here she is sitting on my desk.

Along with my other recycled desk accessories -

recycled tin can holders, recycled book page note holder, 

and

recycled bulletin board that is coming soon.

I love being able to make my area so pretty and vintage 

with 

just a little elbow grease, very little money and some inspiration.

Are you like me - buying thrifted items and leaving them sit for years

before getting the inspiration to redo them?

Or, do you jump right in and get them done right away?

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