A while back I saw this DIY lamp shade on Design*Sponge and decide to take a stab at making my own “capiz shell” lamp shade. In our dining room we had this plain but very 90′s feeling lamp shade that I really hated. Unfortunately the whole thing is like a single unit that I don’t think I can get apart without some electrician skills (which I have none of and don’t fancy electrocuting my self).

Here is the lamp before:

That metal piece at the bottom wasn’t connected at all so I was able to bend it and carefully wiggle it off the glass shade. Then I spent a few weeks cutting out paper circles with an exacto O_o

My Materials: Rives Lightweight paper, self healing cutting mat, ribbon, glue gun, exact-o, and different size bottles to use as templates for cutting.

I decided to just use a single sheet of lightweight paper and skip the gluing wax paper process the original design used. The wax paper is so beautiful but I was trying to really get some coverage over our old shade.

So, then the lamp shade stayed like this for a few weeks

I’m thinking of renaming my blog “The Procrastinators Projects”, what do you think?

But finally I finished!!! Mostly because we were going to have company and didn’t want to continue answering the question “what’s going on here…?” as they point with their confused, scrunched up face at my poor little scraggly lamp shade. *sigh*

Voila!