One of the major negatives about many Libras is that they are indecisive and I have that shortcoming in spades. Maybe that's why I like random things so much.
The issue at the moment deals with my lampshades. In my living room, I have a table lamp, a floor lamp, two luminator-type lamps on the fireplace mantel and a little accent lamp. All of them are brass. The lampshades on them at the moment are self-adhesive shades. The idea is nifty. There's stickum on the outside of the shade and all you have to do is lay fabric or paper or whatever on it and it stays. Instant interior decorating!
Except that for the past two or three years since I got them, they've just had the white paper on them that is there when you buy them. The accent lamp has printed paper on the shade and around the base. (It allows you to decorate pretty much the whole lamp.)
I'm a crafty sort of person and I know how to do a lot of different things, which is really the source of my problem. I can't decide what to do with them. I could knit covers in lace or aran cables or any other knitting pattern. I could cross-stitch some pictures. I could learn a new craft and make paper (something that I've wanted to do for a long time). I could buy some handmade paper. I could get some parchment and use my printer to print out Shakespearean words/phrases/sonnets, printing in either gold color or black. I could just buy some fabric.
I suppose the problem is that I don't really have a style. Mostly it's decorated in "I've been sick for two years and the whole place is a wreck," which ought to be a clue to me that I need to take care of the wreckedness before I think about decorating my lampshades. And I'm doing that gradually, but I'd like to make a decision one way or another about what to do with the lampshades so I have something to focus on.
Maybe I should just make a list of the possibilities and go to random.org to get them to pick one for me.
2 months ago
3 comments:
Poor Deni. I understand. It's not easy being a Libra, although we make it look like so much fun.
My favorite look for small accent lamps is black, especially on a desk where its function is to direct the light down, rather than to illuminate the room. But more than one in a room can get tricky.
I prefer table lampshades to be gold, because the light makes people look good. I avoid white at all costs. One of my favorite things (old hippie me) is to throw a silk scarf over a shade. I know that's dated and bohemian, but I still love it.
I love the idea of making paper; I'd like to learn that too, and the the use of paper with words on it is nice (of course we Libras would like that!).
The easiest thing would be to do the parchment, really. It wouldn't take too much to do that. I found some nifty Shakespearean fonts online. And the parchment can be gold-ish.
As long as no one notices it, interior design is fine with me.
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