Turn a £1 Lampshade into a Statement Piece for your Living Room on the Cheap.

I went to a carboot this Sunday just gone, I only took a few quid with me as I don't like to spend too much there. anyway, my lampshade in the living room was getting a bit old, and after a massive playfight with 6 people a few months ago, it was a bit broken.

While looking around the carboot I noticed an Art Deco up-lighter (probably IKEA) which looked pretty interesting, but for my tastes, a bit plain.

Well I didn't go to college and study A-Level Art for nothing so I put my hard earned skills to good use and I customised my lampshade...





All you need to do this is a permanent market, I used two - one thin point and one thick.

• I downloaded two open source photos of birds, one in flight and a Jenny Wren with its tail up.
  
• Printed them out and carefully cut out the silhouettes to make stencils.
  
• I then traced them onto the lampshade, using the metal Art Deco bars as branches.
  
• For the bit at the bottom it was free hand, I just used a couple of images as inspiration for the butterflies and dragon flies.

The markers cost 27p from Tesco for two and the thin one was about a quid if I remember rightly.

All in all the whole thing took about an hour, which includes searching for the images, cutting out, tracing and colouring in.

So if you are bored and there is nowt on the telly box then grab a marker and customise something!