{"id":5257,"date":"2014-10-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=5257"},"modified":"2014-09-30T14:11:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:11:25","slug":"a-month-of-spookdays-lampshade-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=5257","title":{"rendered":"A Month of Spookdays: Lampshade Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sometimes I go thrifting for the fun of it. I’ll get out $20 cash, and go from thrift store to thrift store, looking for interesting things that spark ideas.<\/p>\n

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When I saw these swirly lampshades for 50 cents each, I thought of delicate ghosts.<\/p>\n

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After much experimenting, the ghosts ended up consisting of clear labels, transparency sheets, and tulle.<\/p>\n

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I noticed an electric votive fit into the lampshade very nicely, so I took advantage of that. I cut down transparency sheets to about 5-1\/2″ x 4-1\/2″.<\/p>\n

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I fiddled around with some photographs, and came up with three faces.\u00a0 Here’s a PDF<\/a> if you would like to use them. I made this sheet, and printed it out on clear label stickers. I printed two so I would have an extra, and also so I could use the second one to guide placement.<\/p>\n

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Facial features get fussy cut. If the nose and mouth were very close together, I left them attached.<\/p>\n

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I laid the transparency down in landscape orientation, and placed the guide face in the middle, near the top. I then used it to stick down the features.<\/p>\n

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The transparency is rolled around an electric votive, and held in place with a bit of tape.<\/p>\n

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Tape goes on the top seam as well. It won’t show.<\/p>\n

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I’m using a 6″ wide roll of tulle I got from the dollar store. Cut 4 to 6 lengths of about 15″. The number of lengths depends on your taste in tulle. These ghosts have 4 and 5 lengths.<\/p>\n

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Smoosh the tulle so it gets all wrinkly. Not only will it look better, it handles better as well.<\/p>\n

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Place two lengths of tulle over the bottom of the lampshade, crossing one another.<\/p>\n

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Push the transparency with its candle down on the tulle, into the lampshade, until the candle is just under the lip.<\/p>\n

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Place a piece of tulle over the opening of the transparency roll, and push it down. Do this with the rest of your tulle lengths, crossing each piece.<\/p>\n

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Add another electric candle under the base, and you’re done.<\/p>\n

These look best in the dark, and would be nice on a spooky black-and-white table arrangement.<\/p>\n

Raffle<\/a> status: Sorry, too delicate to ship.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes I go thrifting for the fun of it. I’ll get out $20 cash, and go from thrift store to thrift store, looking for interesting things that spark ideas. When I saw these swirly lampshades for 50 cents each, I thought of delicate ghosts. After much experimenting, the ghosts ended up consisting of clear labels, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-month-of-spookdays","category-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5479,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions\/5479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}