Allsorts of Everything....

(Does anyone remember the song All Kinds of Everything Remind Me of You? My mum used to sing it to me when I was very small and everytime I hear it I think of her.)

Anyway, I went to a church fete at the weekend and bought hardly anything. The hardly anything that I did buy consisted of two faux leather cream lampshades for 50p. Ugly pieces of work but structually sound. Unfortunately I don't have a photo of the ugly shades as I didn't have the camera handy when I commenced execution on them after arriving home.

So imagine two cream fake leather lampshades.

I bought them to fit my thrifted Laura Ashley lampbases (£1 for Two)


Here is a photo of one of them wearing my bedside tables lampshade to refresh your memory.

Anyhow, there I was with two ugly shades and wanting to recover them with a pretty Cath Kidston print and not knowing how to do it. I knew in the dark mists of time I 'd been taught how to work out the diameter of a circle just by knowing the circumference and some weird mathematical symbol and had to check up on the net what I'd forgotten. Ummm, divide by Pi 3.14.

So, after completeing a gruelling formula (felt like that to me I always hated maths at school) I cut out two semi circles of fabric and joined them to form a shade like shape.

Voila! (hope thats right my school girl french is pretty off too).

lampshade number 1

lampshade number 2

So, from thrifted goods (bases and shades cost £1.50), a bit of Cath Kidston remnant left over from another project (free) and my Time, blood sweat and tears (working out the maths) I've now got two pretty table lamps, one for either side of my living room.

Hmmm, definitely all sorts of everything that day :-)

Hope you like my no sew revamp :-)