Handmade Treasure Box

Handmade Treasure Box

This treasure box could be filled with potpourri or jewelry or q-tips, or anything you want to keep covered in this handy handmade box.  It is practical and pretty.

Handcrafted from binder board and covered with flowers on beige fabric outside and green fabric inside. This treasure box measures 5" high and 2-1/2" wide and deep.

Binder board is used for book making.  

You can purchase this treasure box at http://shadesetc.ecrater.com for $7 plus shipping.  

An exquisite gift for a special person.

Handmade Mini Polo Victorian Lamp and Shade

My focus lamp this week is Mini Polo. The hexagon shade is hand sewn with cream moiré fabric with sugar beading over rose decals in window panels. It has cream colored trims over each rib, top wire, and around the window wires. The fringe is cream colored also. It is not lined.

Sugar beading is a technique done with tiny glass beads and decoupage. It sparkles when the light is on.

The base is a bronze color metal with leaf decorations and raised round circles. It is light weight.

The lamp measures 17" High including the shade. The brown electrical cord is 7 foot. This lamp will take up to a 40-watt bulb in the single turn socket.

You can purchase this lamp at my website: http://www.shades-etc.com/victorian.htm.

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Decorating with Layered Light

I saw this article Why not put a light on the subject in which the author talked about using accent lamps and task lighting to fill in the dark gaps that the over head and larger lights leave in the room. I hadn't thought of light layering but I think it is an excellent way to describe what my lamps do for your room. They put pockets of light layers on top of the larger light that is already in the room. So check out my accent lamps for your light layering needs at http://www.shades-etc.com. I have handmade lamps for baby's room, kids rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, or night stands and hallways. Look around the room you are sitting; are there places that need some additional light?

New Handmade Order

I'm working on a new handmade lampshade order that I received while at WQLN. The lady saw me last year and asked if I could do the lampshade and then lost my business card. She took a chance that I would be at the show and brought the antique lamp with her. I'm glad. It is going to be fun to work on.

This is the back of the lamp. The flowers look like campbell or bleeding hearts.

This is the front with bleeding hearts and a rose.

This is my choice of fabrics. The green is Moire. The gimp is a pale pink peach color. I'm thinking about embroidering a flower on the front or adding an applique.