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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Lancelot Handsewn Victorian Lampshade with Bronze Lamp Base

Handcrafted Lancelot Table Top Victorian Table Lamp.

Lancelot is a victorian style, handsewn lampshade on a bronze base with a lily pad design. The shade is handsewn with cream colored fabric and cream lace overlay with double cream colored fringe.  It measures 26-1/2" high.  It has a 6 foot cord and uses a 40-watt light bulb turned on with a turn switch at the socket.

I hope you will love having this in your home as much as I loved making it.  You can purchase it on my website at http://www.shades-etc.com/victorian.htm.

Pink Moon Handmade Table Lamp for Child's Bedroom

This pink moon lamp is adorable and ready to dress up your little girl's bedroom.

The yellow moons in their nightcaps resting on puffy clouds are surrounded by colored stars and hearts on a light pink background fabric. It is trimmed with 1/4" yellow gimp. The shade is handmade from durable styrene. The inside is white.
The lamp measures 21" high, which would be perfect for an accent light or night light on a dresser or desk. The light-weight base is light pink, see-through acrylic and has a six foot gray cord. The metal is silver and the single turn socket accepts a 40 or 60-watt light bulb.

This lamp would give a little girl's room just the right finishing touch.

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.