The tale of the ugly lamp.

I went yard sale-ing a while back and got saw this table lamp for $1 and while it was ugly ( think tacky brushed silver and white) I had an idea I'd be able to turn it into something amazing!

So the first thing I did was I spray painted that sucker with this textured spray paint that I found in my garage, I can't even remember what it was supposed to go to, or what I used it for but it was this one:

I know it says outdoor spaces on it but I've had and used this lamp for about a month now and it seems like its working to me. So I sprayed that evenly and let it dry while I visited our local Target store and got a basic drum lampshade for I think around $15. Okay so originally I wanted to paint the lampshade in this super cool ikat pattern, however as I found out, that was a really hard design to do AND the tape I used left residue, which pretty much just looked awful. So to fix it I just went ahead and painted over it pink. Well, that turned out not to be so good because you could still see the tape residue when the light shined through it so on a whim I was looking around my room, and remembered I had this great scrapbook paper. So I decided to cut out some circles of the scrapbook paper  I already had the paper but I bought it at our local Michael's craft store, and the circle cutter too, (Fiskars brand is the best I think ).

So after cutting tons and tons of circles I glued them to the shade in an overlapping pattern, which I kind of thought resembled fish scales. So after it was all dry I popped a lightbulb in and flipped the switch and  TA-DA  a brand new (to me atleast) cute table lamp!

** and yes that is my handsome boyfriend in the photo :)