Hey friends!  With the never ending ridiculous temperatures here in Texas, I have been focusing more of my time on indoor projects.  Today I tackled a lamp for my oldest girls’ room.

I had this old lamp that used to be on my bedside table.

I love the lines of it and knew a little Rust-Oleum would do the trick.  First, I gave it 2 coats of Painter’s Touch Blue Sky.

While that was drying I started on the shade.  This lamp had a shade but I wanted a slightly different shape so I bought this one from Target.  I think I spent around $10 on it.

I decided to add some flowers to it.  These are the girls quilts I was going off of…

I found a cute fabric at Hobby Lobby that just about matched them.  It’s the same fabric I used on my storage boxes.

I cut a few 1.5″ strips.

Hot glue one folded end to some felt…

Then, I just twisted and hot glued it down.

Once that is all finished, you just pull the end of the fabric to the back and glue it.

I made all my flowers and then started on my stripe.  I wanted to use ribbon for this part.  Ash even went and got me some… Thanks Lash!  However, I hated the way it wasn’t laying smoothly so on to plan B.

I taped off a stripe using some painter’s tape.

Then, I used a stencil brush and some acrylic paint to make my own stripe.

I let that dry while I shantied the lamp up just a bit.  I used some 220 grit sandpaper to distress my edges.

Finally, I hot glued my flowers on randomly until they made me happy and I was done.

What do you think??

Hope you like it 🙂

I kind of LOVE using fabric flowers!  I used them on these other projects too…

Fabric Flower Wreath

Frame Display

Londyn’s Mirror

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  1. So pretty! I’m in the process of redecorating our guest room and I might have to do something similar using the quilt fabric I’m using. IF the quilt turns out, that is! I love the shape of your lamp…I can’t help but seeing a mom with her hands on her hips! Anybody else see that?

  2. SOO cute!! 🙂 I was just pondering the other day if I could paint a lamp shade! Now I know I can 🙂 yay, I’m off to paint!

  3. I love the stripe and how it looks a little rough around the edges, really like that part and the color. Digging mustard yellow right now. Thanks for sharing.

  4. It turned out so pretty! I love the look of the fabric flowers, believe it or not I have not tried to make one myself yet! Perhaps that’s what I’ll do this weekend in between other projects!

  5. I love all of your projects!!! The pattern on your fabric is the same pattern I’m painting on my daughter’s top half of her bedroom wall!! I’m totally smitten with it! I’m definitely going to have to go to HL now to go buy that fabric and make a throw pillow for her bed!!