In my last post, I told you guys that I bought fabric paint and was going to paint the black sections of my rug to be coral. Well, the paint soaked right in and didn't work, so was conflicted. I just spent a lot of time and energy lugging that huge thing up 2 floors, and have 3 ounces of paint. What the hecksies am I going to do? So I decided to put my rug back in my room as is, just to see how I felt about it. I just luh-uh-ove the pattern and it's been tugging at my heart while sitting in the basement all year.
Is it possible to love a rug even more than I did? The black practically became an accent color with the few other black things I left in my room.
Rug. Check. Paint?
As I was clearing out everything that is stored under my bed so I could lay my rug down, I forgot I bought some white cloth lampshades from Christmas Tree Shop for like $2 each a while ago. I originally covered them in wrapping paper, which looked awesome, but not functional. Whenever I used that lamp, the heat from the bulb would burn the tape that held down the wrapping paper. Ew, gross! So I decided to get a little crafty.
I took strips of masking tape that was about 1/4 inch wide, and lined the while shade.
Then, I took a bit of that fabric paint I bought for my rug (womp, womp) and squeezed it onto a sponge. I used a sponge simply because I don't own any paint brushes. Cheap, I know. Especially fro being an artist, you would think I would own some.
Then, I just started to wash the shade with the paint...
Until it was covered.
I let it dry for a few hours, and then carefully removed the masking tape strips. And wah-lah! My new striped lampshade.
Paint. Check. :)
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