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The Lampshade Lady's Guide to Lighting Up Your Life: 50 Custom Lampshades and Lamps |  | Authors: Judy Lake, Kathleen Hackett
Publisher: Potter Craft
Category: Book
List Price: $27.50
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 122315
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 11 x 7 x 0.8
ISBN: 0307452328
Dewey Decimal Number: 745.5932
EAN: 9780307452320
ASIN: 0307452328
Publication Date: August 18, 2009
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Product Description
They Call Her The Lampshade Lady
When Judy Lake turns on a lamp, she doesn’t just light up a room, she brings it to life. And with her help, you can too. Turn those boring old lampshades into perfect accents for your home decor. If you can cut and glue, you can renew and revive old shades, dress up flea market fabrics, and transform inexpensive basic frames into inspired designs that complement your home, style, and personality. From nightlights to table and floor lamps, sconces, and even chandeliers, The Lampshade Lady's Guide to Lighting Up Your Life will forever change the way you look at lampshades.
The Lampshade Lady shows you the basics of construction and gives you the skills and confidence necessary to let your imagination run wild. Materials like vintage postcards, classic children’s books, baseball cards, heirloom photos, fabric, trim, and even simple embroidery thread produce surprising and delightful opportunities for creativity. From the stately Antique Map Shade to the charming Mama’s Pretty Apron Shade to the To-Die-For French Fabric Shade, these fifty projects are sure to make you look at every lampshade in your home as a chance to create and re-create–all without breaking your budget. Plus, you’ll learn how to make your own lamps out of even more thrifty finds like candlesticks, kerosene lamps, cowboy boots, and just about anything you can run a wire through. Discover how the Lampshade Lady’s designs and ideas really will light up your life.
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Inspiration and practical instruction in a beautiful little book! June 4, 2010
Leslie Fehling (Prosperity, PA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I put this book on my Christmas wish list last year, and I'm glad Santa was so good to me! The book gives practical step-by-step directions for how to make styrene backed lampshades using new fabric, vintage textiles, or any number of other materials such as postcards, photos, and baseball cards. There are cute, funky shades, kids shades, quirky shades, and elegant shades. Judy shows loads of possibilities for using a variety of trims and edgings, as well. The photographs are beautiful and inspiring, and the instructions are clear and easy to follow. The technique is easy enough for anyone to master.
For even more inspiration, you can see the author's most recent lampshades at her blog, which is fun, personal, and filled with great ideas: [...].
I highly recommend this book if you enjoy fabricating unique items for your home. Judy's lampshade designs would light up any room and elicit oohs and aahs from everyone who sees them.
kylady March 20, 2010
Kylady (Louisville Ky)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was very pleased with this book. There are excellent pictures and directions as well as sources to buy supplies. I rehab old lamps to give them another life and now want to add shades of my own creation to them.This book will allow me to do that and yet I will be able to add my own touches as well.
Clear instructions, Endless possibilities! January 3, 2010
P. Tarbell (vermont)
I have taken two classes with Judy at her shop. This book is like getting 50 classes for a tiny price! I now pick up wonderful little and big lamps now at flea markets/garage sales and am making wonderful vintage fabric shades. I can't stop making them. It is great fun. Thanks Judy!!!
 Very beautiful photography of sample projects December 6, 2009
BOOK REVIEW
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
These lampshade designs are incredibly gorgeous. Every single page had beautiful photographs of the gorgeous sample projects. I had no idea that one could make their own custom lampshade. The author has an amazing talent finding and using gorgeous vintage textiles. I would love to give this a try but after doing some research on supplies, I realized how expensive it would be. I believe Kathleen accepts custom orders. I think that might be what I would do. She is probably able to purchase all of her supplies wholesale and is a pro at making her shades look super professional. The only downside to the book was that the instruction photos provided one photo each for a collection of three steps per photo. I felt I needed one photo per step to really understand the process. It would be nice to be able to take a class using the book projects as inspiration.
Lampshade Lady is also a very Creative Lady November 28, 2009
Mary V. (Pittsburgh)
I found this book to be filled with many creative and new ideas. Instructions were clearly written and the pictures were magnificent. I intend to put this book to use for every room in my house.
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