Lamp Redo - Redone!!!

So - - I was really NOT feeling the love for my lamps I redid last week.  They looked, well, sad....  kinda frumpy..............  not hip!!

Yesterday, the hubs and my SIL and my niece and I went shopping.   Hobby Lobby was the first store we went to.  I knew that I wanted some toile - - off white with brown.  Got it picked out, then went to go get some burlap...........  and put the toile back.  (And sooo happy I did!!)  The toile was on sale for 30% off of $7.99 a yard.  The burlap was $3.99 a yard!!

We went to Lowes and I got some hammered spray paint, but brown, instead of the blue/gray I picked up and used last week. 

I took the lamps all apart (BTW -- I had hot glued the material to the lamp shades last week - - and boy did I do a good job with that......... Did you know that you can use your embossing gun thing to warm up the hot glue to get it runny/soft enough to pull the stuff apart??  wow -- - it was soo cool!!)

I spray painted the bases (again) with the new color - - I love it!!

For the lamp shades, AFTER I took the material off, I spread out my burlap on the table.  I laid the lampshade on it's side, and had the seam of the shade laying right on top of the fold of the burlap.  Then I took a pen and drew a line about 1/2 " to 3/4" away from the top of the shade.  I rolled the shade and continued my line until it rolled around and back to the fold.  I did the same thing for the bottom of the shade.  Then I cut it out.  (Hopefully these pictures will show you how I did it better than I can explain it....)

I cut the burlap on one side of the half circle I made and lined it up with the seam on the shade.  Then I sprayed some super tacky adhesive on it (a little section at a time) and rolled the burlap onto it.  I started by lining up the cut edge with the seam on the shade and just worked around.  I smoothed it as I went just to make sure it was going where I wanted it to.  When I got all around the shade, I over lapped it a little, again, at the seam and then cut the rest of the fabric off.

I cut a "W" out of a piece of vinyl with my cricut.  I weeded the "W" out so I had a stencil.  I put the stencil on the lampshade and painted it in with some espresso acrylic paint.  I didn't go over it very heavily because I wanted it to look worn and old.....

I removed the vinyl to reveal the "W" - - YAY!!  It looks GREAT!!  (The font is LordFontleroyBrown)

Then I discovered that I really didn't leave quite enough fabric on the edges to tuck under and glue.... dang it...  I took some twine and wrapped it around the top edge and the bottom edge and secured it with hot glue.  I'm really loving how it turned out. 

I am soo much happier with it now!!!  What do you think??

Before: 



Last week's after (this week's before):



And this week's after:

So much better!!!

Thanks for looking!!  Have a great week!!

Hugs~~ Suz

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