A for Arts n Crafts #1

My very first arts n crafts project is an IKEA lamp.


After a while, it has become too bright and just too plain for my liking so I decided to give it a fresh new look and the result is - a warmer lighting that gives a cosy atmosphere to a corner part of my living room.

All I needed were just a couple of twine ropes and a hot glue gun, and voila, the transformation was completed in just a couple of hours. This is a no-brainer, my friends.


For those of you who are interested, I will write a few steps on how I did this project.


What you need to have:
~ a table lamp
~ two twine ropes
~ a hot glue gun

What you need to do:

1. Clean the outer and inner surfaces of your lamp to free them from dirt and dust.

2. Heat your glue gun.

3. Working from bottom-up, glue the end of one of your twine ropes and start by fixing it to one corner of the baseline of the table lamp and continue all the way until it makes a loop, making sure that it is fully secured with glue.

4. Once this step is done, continue to cover the surface of the lamp all the way to the top, fixing the glue at 10 cm intervals.

5. Along the way, make sure that there is no gap. With a little patience and in no time at all, your project will finish.

And now, for the overall picture...

Notice also my other handicrafts ~ the tulips I made from tissue and crepe papers, my flower arrangement on the pedestal, the picture frame is a jigsaw puzzle I put together and sent for framing and the stools' leg warmers I made from worn-out socks (like humans, they too need to keep them feet warm at nights) hehehe