Ruffle Lamp Redo For Master Bedroom

I promised the lamp redo, but I had to add some paint this morning first.  It was just too blah!  So here she is, ya'll! 

Can't even remember where I got this.  But you can be sure I didn't pay more than $2 for it!  

It was actually even black before it was this!  It sat half finished in the basement for over a year.  But something about the lamp was too cool and I couldn't pitch it but didn't have a spot for it either.  I painted it coral for that pop of color I wanted in my master bedroom makeover.  I decided this was just more "color pop" than I was wanting, and spray painted over the whole thing white.

It's always good to keep a supply of nasty lamp shades on hand.  Hey, it's okay to be a small hoarder in my world.  It was kind of yellowed and stained, but had a great shape.

Then I remembered the gorgeous ruffle fabric I had bought at Hobby Lobby  with a gift card I had gotten for Christmas.  Ohhhhh it was just the thing.  I relaly didn't feel like sitting down and making each little ruffle, plus the awesome thing about this fabric?  It's STRETCHY!!!!!!!!!  Do you know how SUPERB that is for covering a lamp shade?!!!!!  Well DUDE, if you've tried to cover a lampshade with fabric before, then you should know how wondrous STRETCH is.  And talk about EASY.  This probably took me THREE MINUTES FLAT.  I hot glued the all around the top edge of the inside of the shade and stuck it around.  Then flipped it over and trimmed the bottom, which was easy since  I just found one ruffle and cut off all the way around the bottom of it.  Plenty of fabric left for more projects.  Woo hoo!  And it comes in all different colors. :)

I still wasn't totally digging it over there in it's plain white state.  So this morning, I whipped out my home concocted coral paint and did all the swirls.

Since they were all raised, it was easy peasy lemon squeezy.  (I got that from my kindergartner who says that about 24 times a day).

What do ya think?  Better with a little color?  Cuz I can always spray paint the whole shabang white again....  But I think I won't.
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