Let me show you what I made today! My inspiration was a large lampshade I bought at a discount store that looks like this: (left) And in place it in my studio it looks like this: (right) Now, darn it, I didn't notice until I got home that there is slight flaw in the store bought shade. The wording is ALL upside down! You can't tell from a distance. And hubby couldn't even guess with 5 guesses! The factory error made me happy for two reasons. 1) It reinforces that no one is perfect. 2) It means I now had a good reason that I didn't have to go back to the store to buy the two matching little ones for my two button jar lamps! But I still liked the fonts on linen look and I still needed to spice up some shades for these two button jar lamps! I determined the only thing really wrong with the old shades were their age and they were dull looking. The shades have a linen fabric-like surface on the outside. DING DING DING! IDEA! But we have a solution for tha...