Liven Up Your Lampshade

I’ve been in a Martha Steward-kinda-mood lately. Occasionally, okay often, I get tired of everything home decor wise in my house and want to get rid of it and start over.  My tastes change with my couch pillows as often as I change my lipstick!  But my budget doesn’t allow for me to start over with things, so that means I must get creative with merely “updating” my tired home accessories.

My inner craft project diva has come out now that we are starting to convert our upstairs bedroom into a double office (can’t wait to show you all the before and after pictures!).  The hubby is doing the heavy lifting on painting the room right now, so in the meantime I’ve been itching to update other things around the house.  My girlfriend Alice, who is extraordinarily talented with home decor and organization (she owns a local business, Live Simple, contact info at bottom of post) gave me this easy breezy idea for updating my bedroom lamps.

My goal was to pull in the teal blue color from my favorite pillow on my bed and my new peacock drapes I love love, found here, so I chose a ribbon with that color scheme.  Here’s how I took my plain boring lampshades from “drab to fab” with only a $5 budget ( I already owned the scissors, so just had to purchase the glue and spool of ribbon!).