Lego lamp links...

Last week I blogged about a project B & I did, pictured above. We found the mason jar lamp adapter at the Nancy's Notions site. We used a mason jar from the basement (cleaned it up, of course :) & filled it with surplus legos before adding the lamp assembly. For the shade, we used the square shade at the bottom of the linked page. B had downloaded a set of ExoForce images from the Lego site & we composed the images he wanted to use in a drawing file in Appleworks. We printed out each image (there's a different one on each side) on paper & checked it against the lampshade template before printing each one on non-adhesive printer fabric (the lamp shade already has adhesive on it, like a giant sticker). To find the printer fabric, Nancy's may have it, or your local JoAnn (or other) fabrics store, but it might be cheaper from Dharma (see the links in the sidebar). Printer fabric comes in 8 1/2 x 11" sheets that just fit your printer & it just fits the lampshade sides as well. I used the template that comes with the lampshade, cut into sections, to cut each piece of fabric to size, with over lapping edges on the top & bottoms- just enough to wrap over & glue down with fabric glue. The finishing touches were white, single-fold bias tape glued with fabric glue along each each edge between the fabric pieces to make it look neat. I did the gluing on waxed paper & set the shade on the waxed paper until it was dry. I wouldn't use more than a 60 watt bulb in the lamp, since higher wattage may singe the fabric...

To recap:
materials & tools used-

mason jar
something decorative to put in the jar
lamp assembly & shade from the link
single-fold bias tape
fabric or printer fabric (plus computer, printer, & images you want to print onto the fabric)
fabric glue
waxed paper
scissors

Have fun!