Upcycled Lampshade Monster for Halloween

What can you make with that big old lampshade you’ve had lurking in your storage room for far too long? How about an Upcycled Lampshade Monster for Halloween?

How to easily update a vintage lamp

Thrift shops have a crazy amount of perfectly functioning but tacky old lamps and shades just begging to given a new home. The details on that little lamp are fantastic and most certainly deserve a …

Upcycled Tacky Disco Bead Lamp

I scored this fabulous yet plain vintage desk lamp at a garage sale last summer for only $0.50: I had loads of embellishment ideas for this boring blast from the past but let my kiddo …

The Upcycled Coffee Can Lampshade

As thrift shops are stuffed with funky second hand treasures just waiting to be given a new life I knew I’d have no problem finding a few lamps to bring some much needed light into …

The Vintage Lamp Revamp

Since moving into our new home we’ve installed a whopping 16 ceiling lamps…whew! Not by choice or to simply replace existing lights…nope when you move in Berlin there is absolutely nothing in the property whatsoever …

easy DIY embroidered lampshade revamp

I’ve already bamboo’d a lamp and doodled on a couple more so the next oh-so-logical step in my beacon beautifying quest just had to be stitched: Simple yet perky, amiright? Here’s how to make your …

Top Embroidery Tutes for#ThriftyThursday

Although I have mastered the very basic split stitch I’m not at all an expert in the art of embroidery however I do have a few refashionista tricks up my sleeve that allow me to …