Sewing and Lampshades...

  I'm at a crossroads of many paths I can take on a macro scale in my life and I can't really seem to sort through all of the options so it appears that I'm taking out all of my excess curiosities and frustrations on my sewing machine and random household objects.  

     

     SEW... my first real project on my old sewing machine this season... I made a dress??? From absolutely no patterns!  Don't ask.  Somehow it kinda worked so here it is.  I'm digging polka dots this year for some reason.  

     I kinda stole the dimensions of the skirt from my favorite H&M skirt that fits well and then stole the top dimensions from and Anne Taylor Loft shirt that is my favorite standby.

    

 Another interesting project from the evening is an awesome new light fixture.  I can't take full credit for this, because my friend Missy did most of the work and had the original idea.  I just altered it a bit along with a decent Goodwill find. Gotta love 'em.  So here it is...

     The shade was made by wrapping a punching balloon in crochet thread, covering it in fabric stiffener and then cutting a whole in the bottom.  It was initially intended as a hanging light fixture, but it turned out a bit lopsided due to a lack of enough fabric stiffener among other malfunctions.  Once I bought the blue lamp base at Goodwill for $5 I remembered my "faux-paux-matic" ball of yarn and adjusted the idea to a lamp shade, which I'm quite p

leased with.  Not to mention, this lamp casts awesome light patterns on the walls.