Blue Moon Handmade Lamp

This week's focus is on Blue Moon.Doesn't this remind you of a story your mother read when you were a child? Blue fabric background sets off the blue moon and stars on this hardback shade. The blue base is a light weight acylic. The lamp is 21" high and turns on with a turn switch on the socket which uses a 40 or 60-watt light bulb. It has a six foot gray cord. It is for sale on my website for $45 plus shipping.

Handmade Bear Silhouette Table Lamp

This bear silhouette shade lamp would look awesome in a log home, a summer or winter camp, or any home with a nature theme.

The base is made of a yellow birch tree that my father cut down on his property in Western Vertmont. After drying the wood, it was turned on a lathe. The dark circle in the middle is part of the bark. It has three coats of polyurthane. The brown cord measures 6 foot, and there is a push switch socket.

The hardback creamy-white fabric shade features a hand cut silhouette applied to the inside of the shade and only shows when the light is in on. The shade measures T-6", B-15", H-9".

The lamp measures 22-1/2" tall and is for sale on my website at http://www.shades-etc.com/silhouette.htm.

Handmade Lampshade Order Finished

Just finished this lampshade today. It took six hours of cleaning, fitting, sewing, and glueing but it's finally done. This shade fits over a glass globe. I hope to have a picture of it on the lamp to post here soon. It measures 17" across the top, 19" across the bottom, and is 11" high.I used an ivory crepe fabric for the outside and a crepe-backed satin in ivory for the inside. The trim is a gold braid gimp. This lampshade was machine sewn and then handsewn to the top and bottom rings.

I think it turned out nicer than the photo shows. :)

Baseball Lamp

Handmade Baseball Table Top Lamp with Handmade Sports Lampshade.
$125.00 at http://www.shades-etc.com/sports.htm

A sports themed lamp that would be perfect for any child's bedroom desk or dresser. This lamp measures 26" high with a handmade sports lampshade. The ivory cord is 72" long (6') and a 40w or 60w light bulb would be appropriate for the handmade shade. The single turn socket, 7" harp, and finial are gold color.

The hardback, fabric lampshade measures 6" top x 13" bottom x 10" high, has pictures of basketballs, soccer balls, baseball gloves, baseballs, baseball bats, tennis balls, tennis rackets, badmitton birdies, golf bags, golf balls, golf tees, golf clubs, and sports tank tops on a beige background with tiny white dots.

Johnny Bench, Mickey Mantle, and Jason Giambi have their signatures engraved on the three Louisville Slugger mini bats; and the baseball diamond was made in proportion to the signed bats.

You can own this one-of-a-kind, handmade lamp by going to http:www.shades-etc.com/sports.htm and purchasing through my secure shopping cart.

Lining a Handmade Victorian Shade

I'm working on a big victorian lampshade that has a separate crown. The outside fabric is on and I'm now trying to get the lining done. Handmaking these linings is not easy! It's a lot of fitting and refitting and pulling and resewing and refitting; it can get very frustrating doing these by hand. Someone somewhere did the original shades with some type of machine that easily stretched the fabric over the frame and it fit perfectly. Where are they! Ah well, I'll just keep plugging away at it and soon it will be a beautifully handmade, handsewn, and lined victorian lampshade for the customer. The crown in the picture is looking good. So that's what I've been working on for the last few weeks!

Antique Lamp Stash

. Antique Lamp Stash
Originally uploaded by shadescrafts

On one of our trips back home in the Adirondacks, my husband went garage saleing (I think he was bored) and he found this wonderful bounty of antique lamps from a lady who made lampshades (a woman after my own heart) and he bought the most victorian looking ones he could find.

They are in my attic at the moment because I need time to make the shades! So maybe I shouldn't be advertising for lampshade repairs for a while! lol! I'll post individual pictures of the lamps soon.

Dutchess Handmade Victorian lampshade

Someone has said that elegance doesn't exist any more; it passed with the Victorian age. I disagree. I'm still creating exquisite lampshades for old lamp bases. This one is called Dutchess and has white fabric shirred at every other rib, gimp trims, sugar beading over the roses in the windows and double fringe. I love hand sewing these shades. They do take hours and hours to make but are so worth it when they are finished. This one is for sale on my website: http://www.shades-etc.com. It comes with the lamp base. I can make just the shade for sale also.