I'm in the mood for...crafting!

Aren't random crafts the BEST! My boring lamps had been bothering me for some time. I love the shape of the base and added the drum shades a couple years ago. But, I was bored.

I stumbled across a blog where she had used vinyl decals to make a monogram. I tried in vain to find it today. I ended up improvising. 

I could not find a J that I liked that matched our other initials. So I ended up using two different fonts. Shhh!

 I typed up each letter in Word and printed them out individually. Ok, now what. 

They were too thin to cut out and trace.

 On accident, I figured it out. 

As I was carrying the shade and the J, it slipped and the J went inside the shade. Light bulb! So I taped each letter to the inside of the shade, held it up to the light, and traced away with a sharpie.

End result..........LOVE!

They looks SO good in person. I was going to paint over the sharpie with brown paint but I think they look so good as is. They look vintage as if they were silk screened on many moons ago. Yay!

PS: Thanks for your help hubby!!!