TALENT SCOUTED- Happy Looks Good on You {OWL LAMP}

FIRST THINGS FIRST- many of you will have the opportunity of getting an entire featured post here on -COM- YEAH! WHY you ask? BECAUSE ... I am NOW- 

"TALENT SCOUTING"  

If I come across a great blog/site with a DIY project/craft I LOVE, I will email you or leave you a comment telling you I WANT TO FEATURE YOU. I THINK THIS WILL BE ODDLES OF FUN... and I LOOK FORWARD to finding lots of TALENT.

SO I TALENT SCOUTED AND FOUND THE LOVELY Happy Looks Good on You. I was in AHHH, over her owl lamp.

so without further a do HERE WE GO-

Hello Craft-O-Maniac readers! My name is Meg and I'm here from Happy Looks Good On You. When Jen e-mailed me and asked if she could feature this I just about fell right out of my chair.
Gasp! She has so many amazing ideas and I'm thankful to be visiting today.
-Meg


So a few (probably more like 7) months ago my dear friend, Alison, and I made these fabulous mad hatter lamps. And I said I had found an owl that was inspiring me to make a halloween version.



This is said owl.

Isn't he cute?



Oh how I wish I had taken a before picture of him. (what's wrong with me?!! grrrrr.)

I picked him up at the thrift store for fifty cents. He was a toothbrush holder (you can sorta see the holes on his head) that obviously came from the 70s. He was a lovely mix of olive green, gold, and dark orange. Bleh. It was clear why he had landed on that weird decoration/junk aisle. But I saw potential in the little guy. Like most things, a quick spray paint job made a world of difference. And now I have a fabulous halloween-esque lamp.

Now if you're asking yourself, "What is up with Meg and her halloween lamps?" Don't worry. I've been asking myself the same thing. If you're new here, this is my second, yes second, halloween lamp I've made this season.

This is the first one. You can see all the details here.


Obviously I'm crazy about this one too because, well, it's awesome!









This is the shade I thrifted for a couple bucks.



I stripped all the material off and for awhile thought about just using the skeleton shade.



But instead, I cut strips of fabric, tied the ends together, then wrapped it around the shade.

It's kinda like a mummy shade.






I love how everything turned out. Love.

And I owe it all to this little tooth brush holder of an owl.



Until next time...

-Meg


THANK YOU MEG, ITS JUST PRECIOUS! I am so thrilled to of FEATURED THIS OWL LAMP TODAY. jen