Thursday, January 23, 2014

lampshades!!!

I had a pretty old lamp I bought from a friend's mom's moving sale:


but the shade was falling apart so I used burlap to make a new one!

And, in the house we are working on there was a chandelier:

which we removed. I painted it white and had some little lampshades in my basement and thought they could be revamped to upcycle this piece. I removed the fabric from the shades:

A couple broke a little, but I taped them up. 
Then I used a pillow sham with French writing and some burlap trim to recover them:




Thursday, January 16, 2014

My reworked vintage boho boots

Here are some of the boots I have made by upcycling and reworking vintage cowboy boots (and I sell them on Etsy):