Lampshade { a very unpleasant one } Restyle

If you know me, you know that I've never met a milk glass lamp I didn't like.  

I can't resist them and they are usually pretty inexpensive. 

Needless to say I've got a "small" collection {minus the lampshades}

  

You also know that I usually leave used lampshades behind if they are in bad shape.  

Never again people!

  

I recently found some old Martha Stewart Living magazines and came across this project where  

she used yarn to restyle old lamp shade frames.  

I wasn't so sure I wanted to use yarn but definitely liked the concept. 

At last weeks estate sale where I purchased the owl lamp I also grabbed four spindles of 

pearl color beaded trim.  

Each spindle is 33 yards and I got them for $2. 

Score!

So I picked up a lampshade at Goodwill for $.99.

The texture of the material skeeved me out 

but I was going to rip it off anyway so didn't think too much about it.

Then I got home and started tearing it off.

It was the color of skin and it was soft, leather-y, plastic.  

All I could think of was 

"it puts the lotion on the skin" 

{if you don't know what I mean Google it, I don't want to talk about it anymore}

ewwwww!

So I ripped it off as fast as I could and threw it away.  

I put it in my office trash can but then thought one of the dogs would get it and I would just about have a heart attack if I saw that skin hanging out of their mouth so took it to the outside trash.

I went to work, hot gluing one end and started wrapping.  

The key is to wrap an extra time around the bottom circle of the lampshade to make up for the smaller circle on top.  Otherwise, you will be off kilter after about 3 inches.

So here it is!  Now I just need to find a place for it, hopefully not back in the closet.