It looks like “I have no time to decorate, but I really want to have fun with my blogger friends do one of these pretty home tour things” is about the oldest story in the book around here.

to print out the words “All Star” in a fun, sporty font.Then I pressed it onto the lamp and we were all set!.

If you follow me on Instagram, then you may have seen how last week I bought 87 different (slight exaggeration) lamp shades from Target and I was trying to decide which was best.A lot of you loved the chevron shade, and I did too, but in the end the grayish navy shade seemed like the best choice for what I was going for in here.Plus Kennedy said no to the chevron and she pretty much has veto power in decisions involving the room at this point.

It’s her little brother, after all!.We’ve tried to make other lamps before and this was definitely our most successful attempt to date.

What we learned is that you really need to focus on how tall the lamp will be in the end and compare that to the size of shade you’d like to use.

I just measured the height of another lamp in the house that had the same size of shade that I had in mind for this project and made my lamp exactly that height.I also just want to take a minute and say thanks to all of the other moms who reached out in the comments section of.

In a funny way, it’s great to know that there’s so much imperfection in this world and that we can all just laugh about it a little together.Now on to the food!.

The other day, I shared.a simple recipe for chili in the crock pot.