A ModernTake on the Doily - $850 Lamp for less than $50. A Modern Take on the Doily $850 Lamp for less than $50?
Yes Please! Hello Pretty people! We are so excited to share a project we did this past weekend. A few months ago, I came across a ceiling lamp, I absolutely loved. It was $850, and I just couldn’t justify the spend, being it was simply made of doilies. To get started, you are going to need a few things to make this project successful.
Corn starchballoon (we used a 40” blown up until completely round, as pictured)upholstery thread (but any thread will do)twinedrop clothschool gluecheap paintbrushpetroleum jellylamp kit24+ doiliesstiff stuff We sewed the doilies around the balloon with the upholstery thread, very carefully. Make sure to create a space to place your bulb socket. Once you have sewn about ¾ of your balloon, stop and do the last ¼ separately. Lay down your tarp and hang your balloon from some twine above the tarp. Rub the balloon down with the petroleum jelly. It should look something like the image above! I am Lana. Do stuff! & Ten minute no-sew recycled t-shirt bag!
Tutorial time!
I got a gig teaching a recycled t-shirt project at the library a few months ago, with a request for a recycled tee bag – the only bags I’d made from tees in the past had required sturdy sewing, and I didn’t want hand-sewing to be the only thing holding the bottom closed in a class version of the bags, so I started brainstorming about some kind of hand-sewing-friendly or no-sew bag idea…. and here’s what I came up with! The simplest version of these bags is great for smaller tees, or the more light-weight kind of girl-tees – just turn the bottom of the shirt into a drawstring and tie it closed! As you can see, even with a not huge tee, this will still leave a significant hole in the bottom of your bag, but for purposes like grocery shopping, this size hole shouldn’t really matter… But to make smaller holes, just make more than one of them!
Herb Container Garden - Herb Garden in a Reusable Grocery Bag Container Video. You can make a container garden in almost anything, even common bags lying around the house. Watch how to make an easy and green herb garden in a reusable grocery bag.See Transcript Hi. I'm Kerry Michaels for About.com, and today I'm going to show you how to make an herb garden in a reusable grocery bag.
You can really make a container garden in almost anything, but these are kind of cool because they're very lightweight, they're inexpensive and they look great. Just make sure that it's one of the plastic ones, not one of the canvas ones. Container Herb Garden Bag Supplies And one of the first things you need when you make an herb garden is sun, because almost every herb needs full sun which is six hours a day.
You're going to need a good quality potting soil. So you're going to need some barrier to put over the holes to keep the soil in and let the water out. Choose Herbs for the Bag And herbs. Prepare the Garden Bag Container Fill the Bag Container With Dirt Finish the Herb Garden Bag. Growing Lettuce - Growing Lettuce in a Reusable Grocery Bag. Growing lettuce is really easy and it thrives in these plastic, reusable lunch bags, which can be bought at Whole Foods for just 79 cents.
You could also grow flowers, herbs or many other container garden vegetables, equally successfully in any plastic, reusable grocery bag. Lettuce is a great container gardening vegetable because with its short roots, you can grow lettuce in almost anything with good drainage - even a shallow container. However lettuce likes to be kept moist, and it is easier to keep your plants moist in a larger container that holds more soil, because the more soil, the better the water retention. You can grow lettuce from seed or buy seedlings, which are usually inexpensive. Start with a sunny spot, but one that isn’t too hot.