Non-electrified Lamp workshop, March 17

To explain our workshop for March 17, she brought in a pile of beads, some fine wooden skewers and a whole lot of possible lamp shades from bottle tops and condiment holders.

I may not be able to make it to that workshop so I want to add my own ideas to hers.

There are some ideas here .

And here I tell you how I cut the ping pong balls.


The bases:

If you can find them, there are large pushpins that are 3/4" tall (without the pin). 

To pull out the pin, you hold the pushpin  in one hand and heat the pin with a lighter, then pull the pin out with a needle nose plier.

The base of this is made from a large pushpin, a regular pushpin and a faceted clear bead for the bulb. The shade is made from half a ping pong ball trimmed with some eyelash trim.

The shade is held in place with a sequin pin through a small bead and a jewellery finding.

Another shade (this one's on a chain)

Another ping pong ball shade painted with black marker. The base is a plumbing washer, the tray is a pill bottle cap. All are on a thin skewer.

This shade was made from half a golf ball ice cube.

This base was painted with glass stain.

Hope this gives you some additional ideas.