Yay for finding uses for leftover slides!

[gurlzcanrock2]

I took AP studio art this past year, and as a result, I had about a million slides leftover at the end of the course and awhile ago, I read in readymade magazine they had a tutorial on how to make lampshades out of slides. So I decided to give it a go, and here's what I came up with: a cute little reading lamp for my nightstand. I'm definitely taking this to my dorm room!

Here's with the lamp turned off:


Here's one with it on:
 

And here's just a closeup of the slides with the lamp on:


This was a pretty easy project. I just rescued a lamp base from my local salvation army store, then got a lampshade and tore off the paper covering to leave only the circle and the part that goes around the bulb. Then I figured out how many slides I would need, and how long I wanted my columns to be, then drilled holes in each slide with a "1/16 drill bit (this was the most tedious part) and attached them all with jump rings.

[astrisked]

very cool - and i love the funky base that you used. awesome compliment to the uniqueness of the piece.

[sheriffkarli]

whoa, that is sooo neat!

[BlueJeanBaby]

Wow! When my grandpa passed away we found TONS of these in his house. They're of places that he traveled to....I bet they'd make cool lamps....

[Kitsuneh]

Neato, thanks for the explanation too, otherwise it's hard to see what you actually did.
Where did you get the jump rings? and were they expensive?

[gurlzcanrock2]

Where did you get the jump rings? and were they expensive?

I got the jump rings from Michaels, they were the 10mm kind, and they weren't more than $2 for a bunch of them.

[dustpan dan]

Thats a really good idea! I just might hafta try it  .  Mucho creative, i love it.

[rainfallingonatinroof]

absolutely awesome