Up until just last summer, the walls of my bedroom at my parents’ house were lined with horse show ribbons, and I know for a fact* that I’m not the only young rider who grew up with horse show ribbons as a major form of bedroom decor. (*This fact is based on 90 percent of my horse friends’ bedrooms.)
In updating my bedroom for basically the first time since I was about 16, I threw away a large majority of my ribbons, but there were a number of them (particularly the blue ones) that I wanted to hold on to. So I decided to come up with a more adult way to save them, so reverted to these simple glass fillable lampshades from Target:
Now this is where I admit that this isn’t really much of “how to” because there’s no explanation really necessary…Once you have the lamp, all you need to do is:
- Gather up some horse show ribbons of your choosing.
- Roll them nicely with the rosette portion on top.
- Place them inside the lamp anyway that you like.
- Reattach the top of lamp.
If this takes you more than 10-15 minutes, you’re probably doing it wrong…
I added these lamp shades – also from Target – to the lamp bases and stuck a lamp on my desk and one on my night stand. And viola! Super affordable, easy ribbon lamps complete!
