This past Christmas, I decided to make it my goal to make at least one gift for every person in my family. That is usually my goal every year, but this year I wanted to find time to make it a reality. My sister, Tredessa, had asked for a cool hanging lamp for her bedroom so when I stumbled across this DIY lamp on Design Sponge, I was ecstatic. If you have never visited the Design Sponge website, you are missing out and you should head over there right AFTER reading my post:)
I bet you are wondering what these delicious lamps are made out of. Well, I will tell you. The base is a pendant lamp from Ikea which I had my wonderful friend, Mia, purchase for me in another state because we don’t have one here. We will soon though!! It is covered with….wait for it…..felt! Working with felt is a lot more fun then I thought it would be and it can be shaped into pretty much anything you want.
I decided that I wanted to make the petal lampshade in white and this was the result:
Go here for the tutorial. One tip that I will give from my experience making this lamp is NOT to use hot glue with the white felt. You can actually buy felt glue and I would suggest using that if you use white felt for your projects. It definitely dries a lot slower than hot glue but I unfortunately found out after I finished my lamp that hot glue turns white felt yellow. As much as I love yellow, it’s not a good yellow and it only turned certain sections of the lamp that color. Thankfully you can’t really tell when the lamp is on but I won’t make that mistake again in the future! This lamp is stylish and inventive and it’s stinkin felt people…felt!
(Sculptural pendant lamps from Design Sponge)
j
Apr 2, 2010 -
Design Sponge is divine and felt is fun. And your lamp is adorable!
Chyrl
Apr 2, 2010 -
Love the lamp, I’ll take one too.
Stephanie
Apr 2, 2010 -
Your lamp turned out so good! You can’t tell the difference between the D*S photos and your photos! :)
Pearl
Apr 2, 2010 -
Loved the lamp when I saw it in photos Jeanie posted. I can’t wait to make my own. Is that shade plastic? You girls are so stinkin creative! I can learn so much from the two of you!
Dessa
Apr 3, 2010 -
It’s my lamp!! I was just wondering yesterday when you were going to blog about it. I still haven’t hung it up because I’m afraid that if I do it incorrectly, it’ll fall on me during the night and ruin my beautiful face. j/k ;) However, I’m not joking about being scared that it’ll fall on my face. I do love it and right now it’s stylishly hanging out on the floor by my dresser where I look at it and wish I could find somebody handy to come hang it up for me!
Jhimy
Jun 2, 2012 -
Thank you, Shandra!! After your clients’ lamps are iallntsed, be sure to snap a few pretty photos and submit them to us for our Spotlight Series. We love to feature our designers who use Mottega on our blog!