lamps and ribbon and coasters - oh my!

A few days ago was Creativity Day. I ripped myself away from watching Tim Gunn's Guide to Style --------> that's not true - I mean from reading my scriptures........ and I decided to tackle a few projects I had been wanting to do. First the lamps.

The lamp above is a perfectly nice lamp. Nice color, nice style, nice shape........ zzzzzzzzzzzzz. In other words, a great lamp but I can't leave well enough alone. I must embellish. I live to embellish. If you've ever seen my jeans I wouldn't have to explain myself.

I had previously measured the lamp shades and found some suitable trim that was almost what I had envisioned. Not quite... not quite... but close enough for now. Nothing ever gets too comfortable in my house. I like to change things around a lot. Anyway, I got all my supplies together and heated up my glue gun.....................
I started with the striped grossgrain ribbon. I left just a slight band of the white lamp shade showing at the top.
Then on went the fringe - I left a small band of the white shade at the bottom too.

Ta-daaaaaaa!

I was really happy with how it turned out. And it only took my observant all-male family several hours of being in the very same room to notice. Okay that was a slight exaggeration.

Pretty cool. And it kept me out of trouble for a whole afternoon :)

Okay, here is my next little project because obviously I've got way too much time on my hands. 

I had noticed that my favorite coasters were still allowing some moisture to sneak through onto the wood surface below. Not good. So I decided to put a layer of cork on the bottom.
This was a no-brainer project. I just traced a circle, cut the circle, and hot glued the coasters to the cork. Done! They turned out GREAT and have worked really, really well. 
So of course I had to celebrate with some DC and get back to Tim Gunn's Guide to Style ;)