DIY Coffee Filter Lampshade

I am 23 weeks pregnant and I have been stuck in bed the whole time, not per doctor's orders since my doctor is a moron, but because I don't like having contractions this early. Anyway, I digress...

Since I do nothing all day besides sit in bed, watch Netflix and surf the internet, I have become super ridiculously obsessed with all things crafty and DIY.

My latest project as of last night was a DIY Coffee Filter Lampshade which I found on tipjunky.com. http://go.tipjunkie.com/dc/630/northwesthospitality.org/2011/02/20/coffee-filter-lamp-shade/  is the link. I don't want to take credit for the idea.

I fell in love with her lamp the millisecond that I saw it and I knew it had to be in my daughter's nursery! So 5 minutes later I had my nemesis, AKA my hot glue gun, plugged in and my pregnant butt in the kitchen digging through the top shelves of my cabinets for my coffee filters! I was saddened when I saw all of my Starbucks coffee that I force myself NOT to think about...but I digress from that too...

So I set to work on the lampshade, I think I might have taken roughly 3 hours altogether to finish it because I have an almost 4-year old running around who likes to mess up EVERYTHING! He had to help by making tacos and burritos out of my coffee filters...

Oh! I also had to have my husband go to the store and pick up 800 more coffee filters because my 150ish wasn't going to cover that lampshade! He just laughs at me anymore about my requests...either it's another craft project or it's some pregnancy craving that sends him trekking to wal*mart anymore.

After all is said and done, I started with this....


and ended with this...MUCH better lampshade perfect for my daughter's nursery...

Yeah my husband is a HUGE Dale Jr and Sr fan...and racing in general as you can tell from the racing slick on the wall...but I love him anyway!