So I'm Cheap. I'm Also Stubborn With Expensive Taste.

This is a good combination.  When I was shopping for Emma's nursery (read: drooling at things I couldn't afford) I found the cutest lampshade.  I was doing her nursery in pink and brown, right before EVERYTHING was pink and brown and it was hard to find things that would go.  But I found this lampshade online for a hundred dollars.  Yes a HUNDRED dollars.  For a lampshade!  Really?  Hubs would never go for that.  But it's cute, right?

Yeah, so pretty and soooo out of my budget.  Remember when I said I was stubborn?  That's where it gets good.  So I took an old lamp that I had in my bedroom when I was younger and knew I could make my version.

Remember this sad lamp?  Well, I painted it brown (using the brown paint we already had on hand for the brown flowers and two drawer chest we had already painted.  I bought a pink lampshade from Target for about $10.00.  And I picked up some adorable pink and brown polka dotted ribbon from Hobby Lobby.  Super cheap.  I don't even remember what I paid but it was by the yard.  I took some brown scrapbook paper, which I had on hand, cut out a capitol "E" using the Opposites Attract cartridge for my cricut, and I hot glued it on the shade.  I hot glued the pink and brown grosgrain ribbon along the top and bottom edges of the lampshade.  Then I took some tiny pink ribbon, made a bow, and glued it to the "E".  So. Cute.  So NOT $100.00.  And I love mine even more!