DIY Ribbon Lamp Shade

Well, things have been mighty crazy around here.  I’ve been bitten by the spring organizing and purging bug and, at the same time, I’ve been tackling some random DIY projects.  All this while my husband was out of town for 2 weeks on business.  

For some reason, I go in to overdrive when he’s away and so does our family.  My daughter had some dental trauma and an almost-broken collar bone and my dogs killed two ducklings and, this morning, a bunny.  They like to leave me these “gifts” when he’s gone.  Isn’t that sweet?!  Not!  Thank goodness my husband is back home!  Just in time to fix the garage door that refused to close!  But, I’m rambling.

In the next few days, I’ll be showing you the results of all my home improvement efforts.  Today, I’m showing you a lamp shade makeover my daughter and I did and it only took me three paragraphs to get to today’s topic!  Ha!

The truth is, “we” didn’t really do it together so much as she took a few pictures and told me which color pattern she wanted.  The lamp is for her tween room we recently updated.

Isn’t it cute?!

I think it’s so much more fun that the boring old shade that was on it before.  Especially since her room is all about color and pattern.

This project was super easy.

We picked out some ribbon at Michaels and I used hot glue to attach it to the shade.

I didn’t get all precise and perfect, I just “eyeballed” the distance between ribbons and hot glued them at each end on the front of the shade leaving a little extra at each end to fold over and glue on to the inside of the shade.

I trimmed off the excess ribbon and then folded it over and hot-glued the ends.

See?  Easy.

Voila. Super simple, cute lamp shade.

Total cost of ribbon, about six bucks (I used coupons).

The perfect accessory to her fun, updated room!

Thanks for reading!