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If you have crashed an old lampshade from a night lamp or you just want to give it a unique look, then you can make a beautiful lampshade with your own hands. For this you will need: PVA glue, scissors, a balloon, a pen, a needle, tight threads, a small section of organza or felt, glue of the moment, varnish-spray.

1. Inflate the balloon to the size of the desired lampshade. Tightly tied with a thread so that it does not deflate.
2. We take the needle, we thread into it the threads that we will use to create the lampshade and pierce the jar of glue. This will allow the thread to be saturated with glue, taking only the right amount. Remove the needle.

3. Wrap our balloon with threads, they should lie tightly on its surface, squeezing it a little.

4. Wrap the desired number of layers (it depends on how opaque you want to make the surface of the lampshade), fix the thread at the base of the ball and let the product dry well.

5. Using a sponge and a small amount of glue, we go through places where the plexus of threads is very tight, due to the large number of intersections. We are waiting for the threads to dry.

6. Carefully untie the ball and let the air out of it, after which we remove the ball from the resulting thread frame.
7. Spray the frame with varnish and allow to dry.
8. Now our plafond is almost ready, you can simply paint it in the required color or add other decoration decorations. I decided to decorate my lampshade with butterflies.

9. From felt, organza or any fabric that you like, but rather well-keeping shape, we cut out butterflies of different sizes.
10. We color them and allow to dry, slightly bending the wings, when the workpieces are still slightly damp.
11. Using glue, we attach the butterflies to the frame.