Okay, so I recovered the 1980s St Michael Tiffany lampshade yesterday. It only took an hour or so and I really enjoyed having a bit of a play, for once without hundreds of pins. However, I’m still not sure I have somewhere I could hang it (hence the hanging basket shot in the garden). I used some Lotta Jansdotter fabric I had left over and I still think they would look lovely in a little girl’s bedroom or nursery; it’s just a shame I have two boys. I think it looks less like a shower cap now though, especially without the frill around the bottom. Enough playing, back to preparing for a 1-2-1 tomorrow and finishing off my lampshade commission, lots of trim to attach!
I’ve been meaning to do this for ages and finally got round to it today, after much deliberation on fabrics. These lovely lampshades are lined with Lotta Jansdotter cotton fabric from her Echo collection. I made two of them and they are all for me and my hallway. So nice to make something for my own house and amazing finishing off the second one while sat in the sun in the garden this morning, bliss!
Lined Lotta lampshade
I’m incredibly pleased with them; they’re so fresh and beautiful and simple. Plus when they’re lit up you can see the patterned print from the inside on the outside, very pretty indeed. I’ll be putting them on my Folksy and Etsy shops soon, in a range of colours for the outside fabric which is a cotton/linen blend.
Here’s a close-up of the inside. I know I have a lampshade obsession now, I can’t stop looking at them!
I might just have to print some gilhoolie patterned fabrics to do the same with them, just one more thing to add to my list…
I don’t know about you but I’m forever buying cards – there’s always a birthday, birth, new house, new job, so… I thought I’d have a go at making my own. This week, a friend of mine had her first baby and it was another friend’s birthday yesterday. So, there I was making cards rather than looking round the shops for the ‘right’ one. It’s got to mean more if it’s hand-made, well that’s what I think anyway. I hope they think so too. It’s a shame the photos don’t do them justice; I thought photographing stationery would be a doddle compared to lampshades and beanbags!
The birthday card is made using remnants from my screen-printing this week plus some Lotta Jansdotter fabric for the vase. I LOVE her designs so you may see more of them cropping up on here. It’s a shame her shop is in Brooklyn or I’d be right there! LOTS.
gilhoolie baby girl card
The baby card is for a close friend who had a beautiful baby girl this week, what a cute name! I used some vintage-style floral fabric I found in my local sewing shop. I thought it went with the old fashioned pram.
Update – I actually wrote this post two days ago and couldn’t publish it until I’d delivered the cards yesterday and I now have 2 more friends with babies – better make some more!! (What is it they say about waiting for a bus and then 3 come along, what a special week, congratulations all!)
