Girlfriend's Yellow Lamps and I WAS FEATURED!

Note as of September 2013 - My husband and I are now blogging over at The Home Avengers!  We made the switch because we are looking to move from our small apartment sometime in the near future.  So enjoy this post and then come visit us!

If you've been following my blog you may remember that on one of my recent thrift store excursions I picked up these lamps:

And Theatre Boy thought they should be orange:

But he didn't get his way :-( See, these lamps were going in Girlfriend's room on her dresser.  And I put them there and they sat for a time while we waited for some inspiration to hit.  And it finally did!

Girlfriend just loves this dress that Grandma found at a thrift store:

She loves it so much, that it's the inspiration for the redo of her bedroom!  It will be the 'Plaid-ish Orange-y, Yellow, Turquoise with just a *hint* of Green Room' when we are finally done!

But back to the lamps.  It took me some time to find the right color of yellow for her cute little lamps, and I finally found it in Rustoleum Painters Touch Sun Yellow in Gloss.  It's the perfect match!

We started by cleaning the lamps really good.  I like to use alcohol wipes and then let it dry.  These lamps weren't metal, they were some kind of composite/resin.  After they were clean we taped off the cords and the top.  Then we gave the lamps three coats of Valspar primer.  I was surprised by how much primer these lamps took, but they were so dark they definitely needed it!

After the primer dried then we gave them 3-4 coats of the glossy yellow.  And they turned out so pretty!

I have seen spray painted lamps all over the blogosphere and have always wanted to try it.  It turned out so much better than I even thought it would.  The paint was so shiny smooth and pretty!  Girlfriend loved them!

They earned a prominent place on her dressing table:

Super duper pretty!

So, Girlfriend has talked about glazing these (must get that obsession from her mother) so this may not be the last post you see about these lamps!

I am having having so much fun with this blog!  It's like incentive to git'er done!  I have some more exciting news to share also.  This past week BIG FAMILY/small apartment featured on not just one - but TWO other blogs!

Our first feature was on Petites Passions where my Awesome Orange Mirror caught the spotlight:

and for that I earned my first *Featured* button:

My second feature was for my Duct Tape Bed Skirt over on Homemaker On A Dime for having the most click-throughs from last weeks 'Creative Bloggers' Party And Hop'!  And then I earned another button:

Isn't that so cool?  I'm gonna have buttons on my blog (as soon as I can figure out how to get them on there - ha!).  I've only been blogging for a couple months and couldn't believe people were reading my blog, let along liking what I was doing.  Woohoo!

We have a great week coming up with more projects that we've been finishing here at BIG FAMILY/small apartment.  We'll hope you'll follow along and join us!

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