Author offers guide for custom lampshades
Author offers guide for custom lampshades
To Judy Lake, a lampshade is a form of self-expression.
Lake, owner of a Vermont business called Lake’s Lampshades, is encouraging her readers to put a little personality into their lighting with “The Lampshade Lady’s Guide to Lighting Up Your Life: 50 Custom Lampshades and Lamps.”
Lake’s book teaches the basics of creating a lampshade with a wire frame and gives ideas for making shades from such unexpected materials as photos, antique postcards and vintage fabrics — even chenille and needlework.
Her projects range from simple shades appropriate for beginners to elaborate designs.
She also includes instructions for making lamp bases from boots, baby blocks and more.
“The Lampshade Lady’s Guide to Lighting Up Your Life” is for sale from Potter Craft. It’s priced at $27.50 in hardcover.
Candle magic
Do you love candles? RealSimple.com shows their magic in 30 ways. Here’s a sneak peek:
Line votive or pillar candles on a vintage glass cake stand or stack varying sizes on a tray.
Anchor votives in sand or tiny pebbles in wine glasses or flip champagne flutes upside down to place pillars on top.
Fill large glass cylinders with small stones or marbles and secure candles in them or cluster tea lights in jelly jars on a tabletop.
When possible, add a mirror. It adds radiance.